ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...
If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...
Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...
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 ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper ... Gaia will leave its current orbit around Lagrange point 2, 1.5 million km from the Earth in the direction away from the sun, to be put into its ...
An illustration shows the Gaia spacecraft telescope drifting between Earth and the sun as the Milky Way ... stars and other objects in and around the Milky Way. This vast stellar census contains ...
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared the visuals on social media, ...
Some 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has been mapping out the Milky Way ... orbit at Lagrange Point 2 and travel away from the Sun.
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