The future of the Orion constellation (with logos)

This video reveals how our view of the Orion constellation will evolve over the next 450 000 years. Amid a myriad of drifting stars, the shape of Orion as defined by its brightest stars is slowly rearranged into a new pattern as time goes by. The portion of the sky depicted in the video measures 40 × 20° – as a comparison, the diameter of the full Moon in the sky is about half a degree. The video is based on data from ESA’s Gaia and Hipparcos satellites, as well as additional information from ground-based observations. Read the full story “The future of the Orion constellation“ at: Watch the evolution of two million stellar positions on the entire sky at: Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO More information about this video can be found at