Previously, these had been difficult to identify, but with the Gaia space observatory's data having mapped ... The research ...

in a sense, a pair of glasses to see through the dust, and that's what the near-infrared detectors will allow.” Gaia has been a triumph and its legacy will shape astronomy for decades to come.

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared the visuals on social media, ...

In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

and the IAU Office of Astronomy for Education. "Still, the distant parts of the Milky Way remain educated guesses based on incomplete data. With further Gaia data releases our view of the Milky ...

"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 ...

Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission - and its fuel is now nearly empty.

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

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 ...

Using the Gaia data, scientists were able to construct ... In their study published on September 27, 2023, in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, scientists found the rotation curve of our ...