Our Future is Galactic

Humanity’s destiny awaits beyond Earth, and the foundation for the move into space must be built by our generation.

“Three space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames Research Center in the 1970s. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made, including this one showing a cutaway view of a fictional Toroidal (donut-shaped) Colony. Artwork: Rick Guidice.” ©NASA

Using the newest data from the European Space Agency’s GAIA spacecraft, the ESA created the above map of our galaxy that pinpoints the brightness and positions of nearly 1.7 billion stars.