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Lucien Rudaux (1874-1947), “Untitled,’ (Mars as seen from moon Deimos) 

Artist and astronomer Lucien Rudaux’s passionate love affair with the galaxy began when he was a child in Normandy and never waned. 

He built his first telescope when he was only 10 years old, then joined the Société Astronomique de France when he was 18. 

He set up his own observatory in his parents’ garden in Donville-les-Bains not long after, photographing the Moon and planets and creating an atlas of the Milky Way.

A 65-km-wide crater on Mars is named for him.

Artist’s conception of the Gaia spacecraft as it maps the Milky Way. 

Astronomers from the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium have made public the first part of the third major data release from the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft. The findings, published or being reviewed in a series of papers in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, accurately mapped the position of 1,811,709,771 stars in our Milky Way galaxy, including the distances from Earth and relative motions of 1,467,744,818 of those stars.

Credit: ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier

Milky Way from the Atacama desert 

Alberto Ghizzi Panizza/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Science and research of the universe, spiral galaxy and physical formulas, concept of knowledge and education. 

Elements of this image furnished by NASA.

Credit: Lia Koltyrina

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