Gaia maps our galaxy from within, by gathering information star by star of almost 2 billion stars of our Milky Way. These data were used to create an update to the Milky Way model, from which the visuals were rendered. Thanks to Gaia we have the best insight yet …

Jan 15, 2025 · This is a new artist’s impression of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESA’s Gaia space telescope. Gaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way. Even seemingly simple ideas about the nature of our galaxy’s central bar and the spiral arms have been overturned. Gaia has shown us that it has more than two spiral arms and that ...

Jun 13, 2022 · Gaia is ESA’s mission to create the most accurate and complete multi-dimensional map of the Milky Way. This allows astronomers to reconstruct our home galaxy’s structure and past evolution over billions of years, and to better understand the lifecycle of …

2 days ago · This is an artist’s impression of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESA’s Gaia space telescope. The arrow points to the position of the Solar System, where we live. Gaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way. Even seemingly simple ideas about the nature of our galaxy’s central bar and the spiral arms have been overturned.

Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, in the process revealing the composition, formation and evolution of the Galaxy. Gaia will provide unprecedented positional and radial velocity measurements with the accuracies needed to produce a stereoscopic and kinematic census of about one billion ...

Jan 15, 2025 · Press release published by ESA on Gaia's end of observations: "Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia" / Dutch / French / German / Italian / Spanish; Find the most up to date Milky Way map, based on Gaia data from this page. The page contains an edge-on view, face-on view and an animation.

Sep 27, 2023 · The Milky Way rotation curve represents the circular rotational speed of stars as a function of distance to the Galactic center. The white dots and error bars represent the measurements obtained from the Gaia Data Release 3 catalogue.

Jan 19, 2025 · This artist's reconstruction of Gaia data shows the Milky Way's central bulge, galactic disk, and outer reaches. (ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar) Gaia has updated our understanding of the galaxy we live in and brought its history to life.

Gaia is the name of the primal goddess of the Earth in greek mythology – but also an ambitious ESA mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. It’s primary objective is to survey one thousand million (one billion) stars in our Galaxy and its local galactic neighbourhood to build the most precise 3D map of the ...

3 days ago · ESA is working on the GaiaNIR mission, an infrared version of Gaia which would be able to see through the dust in the Milky Way's disk to map many more stars and make a direct connection between ...