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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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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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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Mapping 2 billion stars: How Gaia transformed our view of the Milky Way
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia spacecraft concluded its sky-scanning mission after mapping the Milky Way for more than 10 years. On January 15, Gaia completed its last observations ...
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Gaia's Mission Nears Its End
In those years, Gaia achieved a monumental feat, creating a three-dimensional map of over two billion stars across the Milky Way. Now, the top-hat-shaped spacecraft is nearing the end of its journey.
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 ...
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Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping
Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last 12 years, shut down science operations on Wednesday (Jan. 15). The close of the mission's data-collecting phase was ...
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Legendary Gaia Spacecraft Maps Entire Galaxy, Promptly Retires
An artist's impression of the Milky Way, seen edge-on. Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has completed one of its major charges: delivering a ...
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Earth bids farewell to ESA’s Gaia spacecraft
On 27 March this year, the European Space Agency (ESA) will be saying goodbye to Gaia, a one-of-a-kind digital camera to capture the secrets of the Milky Way system. Gaia was launched towards the ...
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ESA spacecraft creating '3D map of the Milky Way' to be shut down
Gaia space telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy and has flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head. After more than a ...
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ESA's Gaia spacecraft 'gives best insight yet' of what the Milky Way looks like
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has completed its sky-scanning mission today after mapping the Milky Way for more than 10 years. Gaia has racked up more than three trillion ...
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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. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Night has fallen for the star-tracking ...