Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed 3D map ever made of stellar nurseries in our Milky Way galaxy.

Using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope, astronomers constructed the first-ever 3D view of star-forming regions that are otherwise hidden by thick clouds of gas and dust, making it difficult to measure their true distances. A new video of the 3D stellar map takes viewers on a flyby through the radiant stellar nurseries, where new stars are forming in our cosmic neighborhood.

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an astronomer at the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom and first author of two scientific papers explaining the new 3D model, said in a statement f

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