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.
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Gaia’s scan of Milky Way comes to an end after three trillion observations - but mission continues
Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission - and its fuel is now nearly empty.
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Moment of Science: The Gaia Sausage
It was a cosmic collision that may well have ... and here’s where the Gaia sausage comes into play. Star formation in the Milky Way went way, way down about 8 to 10 billion years ago ...
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Last starlight for Gaia as it completes sky-scanning mission phase
to finding evidence for an ongoing collision with the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy today, Gaia is rewriting the Milky Way's history and making predictions about its future. In the process of scanning ...
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Hubble's 2.5-Billion-Pixel Mosaic Reveals Andromeda in Breathtaking Detail
The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...
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2.5-Billion-Pixel Andromeda Galaxy Panorama Worth The Decade Of Hubble Observations
The work has revealed that Andromeda is a lot more chaotic than expected. Similar to what recently retired Gaia did for the ...
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Gaia space telescope completes its scanning of the Milky Way
From detecting ‘ghosts’ of other galaxies and multiple streams of ancient stars that merged with the Milky Way in its early history, to finding evidence for an ongoing collision with the Sagittarius ...