The Gaia satellite, a fantastic star tracker, retires
The European satellite, launched in 2013, has exhausted its gas reserves and is preparing to return to a stable orbit before being 'passivated.' But while the data collection that revolutionized ...
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 ...
Astronomers Stunned by WASP-132’s Bizarre Planetary System
Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...
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Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping
"I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." Night has fallen for the star-tracking European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the ...
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Milky Way's Mysterious Ripple Could Be a Scar From an Ancient Collision
Using data collected using the Gaia satellite, an international team of researchers has uncovered what could be fresh details of a hypothetical dust-up between the Milky Way and an orbiting body ...
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We Finally Know How Old The Stars Are, Say Scientists (And When We Collided With A Cosmic ‘Sausage’)
Published this week in Nature Astronomy, the paper has used new data of unprecedented precision from the Gaia satellite. Gaia was launched in 2013 to map and characterize more than one billion of ...
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Earth bids farewell to ESA’s Gaia spacecraft
Although Earth is saying goodbye to the spacecraft this year, Gaia’s observations will result in two more data releases by 2030. On 27 March this year, the European Space Agency (ESA ...
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Over 350 asteroids have hidden moons, Gaia space telescope finds
In Gaia's Data Release 3 (DR3), however, the ESA satellite surpassed itself, determining the orbits of over 156,000 asteroids. But it's not all about quantity; the Gaia data has impressive quality ...
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'53 candidates': Dozens of stars exhibit evidence suggesting they may host advanced alien civilizations
Two independent teams of astronomers, led by Matías Suazo and Gaby Contardo, analysed data from the Gaia satellite and infrared telescopes to identify unusual infrared heat patterns among ...
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Milky Way: Scientists discover galaxy less heavy than previously thought
An international team led by astronomers from the Paris Observatory looked at the latest data from the Gaia satellite. Gaia is a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite, launched in 2013 ...
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Alpha Persei (IMAGE)
The member stars in the corona are invisible. These are only revealed thanks to the combination of precise measurements with the ESA Gaia satellite and innovative machine learning tools ...