Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping
Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 ...
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The revisited mass of the Milky Way is much smaller than expectations from cosmology
Thanks to the latest Gaia satellite catalog from the European Space Agency (ESA), an international team led by astronomers from the Paris Observatory–PSL and the CNRS has achieved the most ...
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We Finally Know How Old The Stars Are, Say Scientists (And When We Collided With A Cosmic ‘Sausage’)
Published this week in Nature Astronomy, the paper has used new data of unprecedented precision from the Gaia satellite. Gaia was launched in 2013 to map and characterize more than one billion of ...
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Gaia continues quest for the ultimate sky map
The European Space Agency's (Esa) Gaia satellite was launched in 2013 and placed a million miles from Earth. It looks a bit like a spinning top hat. And as it rotates, the telescope uses its ...