Space.com5d
Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping
Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...
Legendary Gaia Spacecraft Maps Entire Galaxy, Promptly Retires
The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...
ESA's Gaia spacecraft 'gives best insight yet' of what the Milky Way looks like
The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...
Yahoo5d
Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping
An illustration shows the Gaia spacecraft telescope drifting between Earth and the sun as the Milky Way looks on ... gas propellant it uses to spin. The top-hat-shaped craft has been using ...
ESA spacecraft creating '3D map of the Milky Way' to be shut down
The ESA will conduct technology tests for several weeks after Gaia’s observations end, before the spacecraft leaves its orbit ...
Phys.org5d
Last starlight for Gaia as it completes sky-scanning mission phase
As such, we now also have the best reconstructed view of how our galaxy might look to an outside observer. This new artist impression of the Milky Way incorporates Gaia data from a multitude of ...