Mission accomplished for space telescope Gaia
The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...
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RIP Gaia: Revolutionary Mission That Mapped The Galaxy To Come To An End This Week
The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has almost completely depleted the cold gas propellant that kept it spinning and able to scan the sky ... first and foremost a map maker; its mission ...
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Wobbling stars reveal hidden companions in Gaia data
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 ability to ...
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Wobbling stars reveal giant companions
Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.
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We Finally Know How Old The Stars Are, Say Scientists (And When We Collided With A Cosmic ‘Sausage’)
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A team led by ... precision from the Gaia satellite. Gaia was launched in 2013 to map and characterize more than one billion ...