ESA’s Gaia Spacecraft Wraps Up Revolutionary Milky Way Mapping Mission
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
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The Milky Way might be part of an even larger structure than Laniakea
You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way Galaxy->Local Cluster->Virgo Cluster->Virgo ... which should help provide a more precise map of the largest structures in the universe.
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ESA spacecraft creating '3D map of the Milky Way' to be shut down
Gaia space telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy and has flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head. After more than a ...
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ESA spacecraft Gaia releases the best Milky Way map before shutting down after 12 years
The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has officially ended its mission to map the Milky Way after 12 years of data collection. The spacecraft shut down its science operations on January 15 ...