ESA’s Gaia Spacecraft Wraps Up Revolutionary Milky Way Mapping Mission
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
Gaia Completes Its Stellar Odyssey, Leaving a Cosmic Legacy
The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...
Gaia's Mission Nears Its End
Soon, the Gaia spacecraft will leave orbit and begin its retirement in the depths of space. In the last 10 years, it has ...
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Gaia Mission Measures Metals In Milky Way Stars
Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...
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Gaia's Farewell Gift Is The Best Milky Way Map We've Ever Seen
We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.
Mapping 2 billion stars: How Gaia transformed our view of the Milky Way
Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...
ESA spacecraft Gaia releases the best Milky Way map before shutting down after 12 years
The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of ...
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Hear Starquakes! Pulsating Stars' Frequency Increased 8.6 Million Times
In this visualization of stars observed by ESA's Gaia mission, the "frequency of the rotating and pulsating stars was increased 8.6 million" to make them audible to humans. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC ...
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Last starlight for Gaia as it completes sky-scanning mission phase
The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has completed its sky-scanning phase, having made over 3 trillion observations of approximately 2 billion stars and other celestial objects.