The galactic map maker has changed our understanding of the galaxy, its past, neighborhood, and even provided new insights into the Solar System. After 10.5 years of observations, Gaia’s eye on ...

Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC We now have the most detailed catalogue of stars in our Milky Way galaxy yet. The new map -- created using data collected by the Gaia satellite -- shows about 1.7 billion ...

The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

dusty regions Gaia couldn't see through. With its greater sensitivity and longer wavelength coverage, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s galactic plane survey will peer through more of ...

Khyati and Hans-Walter also built a dynamical map of other known components that have played a role in our galaxy's formation and were discovered using Gaia data. These include Gaia-Sausage ...

From wobbles to new worlds Since its launch in 2013, ESA's Gaia spacecraft has been building the largest, most precise three-dimensional map of our galaxy. Spinning slowly, it scanned the sky with ...

One of the most notable contributions to galactic astronomy is the third data release from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, known as Gaia DR3. This release includes an extensive array of ...

We used an updated Besançon Galactic model together with the latest PARSEC ... The apparent magnitudes were reddened according to a new selection of 3D extinction maps. To help with the Gaia selection ...