Farewell, Gaia: spacecraft operations come to an end
27 Mar 2025 The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has been powered down, after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel...
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Latest Gaia data release reveals rare lenses, cluster cores and unforeseen science
10 Oct 2023 The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has released a goldmine of knowledge about our galaxy and beyond. Among other findings, the star surveyor has...
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Largest chemical map of the Milky Way unveiled
13 Jun 2022 The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia mission has released a new treasure trove of data about our home galaxy, including stellar DNA, asymmetric...
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Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy – and beyond
25 Apr 2018 The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion...
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Gaia results revealed – first data release from the most detailed map ever made of the sky
14 Sep 2016 The first results from the Gaia satellite, which is completing an unprecedented census of more than one billion stars in the Milky Way, are being...
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One year and 272 billion measurements later, Gaia team celebrates first anniversary of observations
25 Aug 2015 A space mission to create the largest, most-accurate, three-dimensional map of the Milky Way is celebrating its first completed year of observations....
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