ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Planets, asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars collect around supermassive black holes, forming galaxies. Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies.

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 ...

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The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky ... the weeks ahead before Gaia is moved to its "retirement" orbit, and two massive data releases are tabled for around ...

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Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

“Still, the distant parts of the Milky Way remain educated guesses based on incomplete data ... After several weeks of testing, Gaia will leave its current orbit around Lagrange point 2, 1.5 million ...

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The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of ...