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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Gaia Mission Measures Metals In Milky Way Stars
Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...
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CERN and ESA: a decade of innovation
Enrico Chesta, Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois and Markus Brugger highlight seven ways CERN and ESA are working together to further ...
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ESA enlists Thales Alenia Space for mission to Venus
“No other mission has ever attempted such a comprehensive investigation of our remarkably inhospitable neighbour,” ESA science director Carole Mundell said in a statement. “EnVision will ...
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Does Extraterrestrial Life Exist? Here’s What Scientists Really Think
There's a solid consensus among scientists on the question, according to a new survey. It’s easy to see why. Headlines such as “We’re probably not close” or “Nobody knows” aren’t very clickable. But ...
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ESA (2019) Data from the Gaia Mission and Studies on the Rotational Velocities in the Andromeda Galaxy. European Space Agency.
ABSTRACT: This paper aims to define the concept of time and justify its properties within the universal context, shedding new light on the nature of time. By employing the concept of the extrinsic ...
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University of Warwick astronomers involved in discovery of new planets
Observations of WASP-132 by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia satellite are still ongoing, and it is hoped that the satellite (which has been measuring variations in astral positions since 2014) ...