From the Solar System to the Hyades cluster

A virtual journey, from our Solar System through the Milky Way, based on data from the first release of ESA’s Gaia satellite. The journey starts by looking back at the Sun, surrounded by its eight planets. We then move away from the Sun and travel towards and around the Hyades star cluster, the closest open cluster to the Solar System, some 150 light-years away. The 3D positions of the stars shown in the animation are drawn from the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS), which combines information from G