Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...
The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...
The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...
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 ...
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 ...
By that metric, the ESA’s Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy and has forced us to abandon old ideas and replace them with compelling ...