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Color of Sky From Gaia's Early Data Release 3 Data from more than 1.8 billion stars have been used to create this map of the entire sky. It shows the total brightness and color of stars observed by ESA’s Gaia satellite and released as part of Gaia’s Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3). Brighter regions represent denser concentrations of bright stars, while darker regions correspond to patches of the sky where fewer and fainter stars are observed. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, Acknowledgment: A. Moitinho ====================================================================== Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have shown that a part of...

It was a rough Thursday night all around for the Chicago Bears -- they lost 35-14 to the Green Bay Packers while simultaneously getting trolled by Butterfinger on Twitter. The night's roasting started early when the candy brand took to Twitter to weigh in on the Bears' slippery fingers when quarterback Mike Glennon had a snap bounce off his knee for a fumble that the Packers recovered. The Bears, obviously offended by the ironic tweet, responded with a predictable joke. While it's tough to reconcile two bad losses in one night, at least the Bears can take solace in knowing...

Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at Central Michigan University, describes the process of making the panorama in the November issue of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.