Hubble & Gaia weigh the Milky Way
Measurements from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the ESA Gaia mission have been combined to improve he estimate of the mass of our home galaxy the Milky Way: 1.5 trillion solar masses.
Credit:
Directed by: Bethany Downer.
Editing: Nico Bartmann.
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Mathias Jager .
Music: John Stanford - Aurora (johnstanfordmusic.com).
Footage and photos: ESO, P. Horálek, ESA, Hubble, NASA., L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser, ATG Medialab, F. Ferraro, S. Brunier.
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.
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