After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

After more than a decade of scanning the stars, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has officially ... or tinkering with something on his computer.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down ... subsystem and the central computer were the last to be deactivated. "Today, I was in charge of corrupting Gaia's processor modules to make ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it continues to contribute to astronomy. As Gaia Mission Manager Uwe Lammers put ...

But its legacy lives on. Rendering of the Gaia telescope in space.Credit...ESA/ATG medialab; ESO, via S. Brunier Supported by By Katrina Miller From ancient star streams to the innards of white ...

and Gaia will never forget us," Gaia Mission Manager Uwe Lammers said in a statement. In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel ...

This is the last time that the spacecraft will ever hear from its team on Earth," The ESA said. Those final commands included shutting down communications systems and Gaia's central computer.

Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia’s ...

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