Gaia Mission | Milky Way Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt Space a disc around the proto-star

a disc around the proto-star slowly accretes onto the star's surface

meaning that the dust is reflecting the visible light of nearby stars

crafted from Wide Field Camera 3 images

The Hubble image of the Bubble Nebula

This 2010 image from the Herschel Space Observatory shows dust clouds associated with the Rosette Nebula

Gaia Mission | Milky Way Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt Space a disc around the proto-starGaia, operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), surveys the sky from Earth orbit to create the largest, most precise, three dimensional map of our Galaxy. In 2018, the Gaia mission produced its much awaited second data release, which included high precision measurements positions, distance and proper motions of more than one billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy. This catalogue has enabled transformational studies in many fields of astronomy,