ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky ... images. It may take more observations to verify whether cooling ...
Andromeda is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way. And it is getting closer, as the two will merge in several billion years. It has been an object of study for centuries, but we have never seen ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia ... Each CCD detector on Gaia has dedicated electronics to convert the faint signal levels to digital images. A team at UCL's Mullard ...
Each CCD detector on Gaia has dedicated electronics to convert the faint signal levels to digital images ... outside our Milky Way. For example, Gaia has provided pinpoint precision orbits of more ...
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 ...
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia spacecraft concluded its sky-scanning mission after mapping the Milky Way for more than 10 years. On January 15, Gaia completed its last observations ...
Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last 12 years, shut down science operations on Wednesday (Jan. 15). The close of the mission's data-collecting phase was ...