Triangulum galaxy
Date: 25 April 2018
Satellite: Gaia
Copyright: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
The Triangulum galaxy, or M33, a galactic neighbour to our Milky Way, as viewed by ESA's Gaia satellite using information from the mission's second data release. This view is not a photograph but was compiled by mapping the total density of stars detected by Gaia in each pixel of the image.
Acknowledgement: Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC); A. Moitinho / A. F. Silva / M. Barros / C. Barata, University of Lisbon, Portugal; H. Savietto, Fork Research, Portugal.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO License. 
Last Update: 1 September 2019
