Astronomers Just Created the Most Detailed 3D Map of Cosmic Dust Yet
Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...
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Saying Farewell to the Gaia Mission, Which Mapped the Milky Way
He’s here to tell us why the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft is so important—and why, even though the Gaia mission is technically coming to a close, its scientific legacy is only ...
A Star’s Tiny Wobble Just Revealed a Massive Planet That Shouldn’t Exist
Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...
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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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Scientists release most detailed star chart of the Milky Way
The data released Wednesday include high-precision measurements of almost 1.7 billion stars collected by the space agency's Gaia probe, which was launched in 2013. It follows the release two years ago ...
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High-precision NEID spectrograph helps confirm first Gaia astrometric planet discovery
Gaia spacecraft. Through its precise monitoring of the positions and motions of stars in our galaxy, Gaia is revolutionizing our understanding of many areas of astrophysics. With its exquisite ...
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ESA spacecraft uses 'wobbly' stars to discover huge hidden worlds
Astronomers are buzzing over a groundbreaking discovery made by the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Gaia spacecraft, which found two giant cosmic objects hiding in plain sight. For the first ...