Gaia DR3 · Explore to G = 15
A deeper sky.
36,909,365 Gaia DR3 sources have mean magnitude G ≤ 15. Universum queries visible sky regions through CDS/VizieR; the entire dataset is not downloaded at startup.
Open in the planetarium →Observe with Gaia
Enable Gaia in the planetarium Catalogues tab or Saturn button. All catalogues are enabled by default. Zooming raises the limit from 6 to 15, subject to the magnitude slider. An Internet connection is required; incomplete loading and service failures are reported.
Find a Gaia DR3 source
Understanding the data
G is Gaia’s broad photometric band: G = 15 does not mean V = 15. ICRS coordinates refer to epoch 2016.0; proper motions are applied when available. Colours, temperatures and distances are not inferred arbitrarily. Catalogue sources are not all confirmed stars.
62,723 sources with G ≤ 8 are bundled for immediate wide views; fainter sources load online.
UNI · Universum
Each source receives a UNI reference. Unambiguous official HIP/TYC matches reuse their existing UNI identifier; others use UNI-0008 followed by the 16 hexadecimal digits of the Gaia source_id. Existing references remain valid.
UNI →Institutes, sources and credits
ESA Gaia mission; scientific processing by DPAC; distribution through the ESA archive and CDS Strasbourg / VizieR (I/355). Gaia DR3 contains 1,811,709,771 sources in total. The 36,909,365 count uses phot_g_mean_mag ≤ 15, checked on 22 October 2026. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, funded by institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. Dataset licence: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO.
ESA · Gaia DR3 · CDS/VizieR · I/355 · DOI 10.5270/esa-qa4lep3 · CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO