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.
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
Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Night has fallen for the star-tracking European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last 12 years ...
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Earth bids farewell to ESA’s Gaia spacecraft
the Gaia mission continued to stun researchers with its findings, collecting and transferring a “treasure trove” of data back to Earth. With data from the spacecraft, the ESA released the ...
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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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Last starlight for Gaia as it completes sky-scanning mission phase
"This will conclude an incredible coordinated effort between hundreds of experts across the science operations center here at ESAC, the mission operations team flying Gaia from ESA's European ...
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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 ...