Scientists Just Mapped 130 Million Stars to Reveal the Universe’s Hidden Haze
Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...
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Astonishingly detailed map of the Milky Way will blow your mind
Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC We now have the most detailed catalogue of stars in our Milky Way galaxy yet. The new map -- created using data collected by the Gaia satellite -- shows about 1.7 billion ...
Finding white dwarf-main sequence binaries in Gaia data with machine learning
Despite having recently officially ended its science operations in January, Gaia, one of the most prolific star explorers ...
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Saying Farewell to the Gaia Mission, Which Mapped the Milky Way
So Gaia is a spacecraft that was launched by the European Space Agency way back in December of 2013. And it was on a mission to create the best, biggest, most accurate map of the Milky Way ever.
A Star’s Tiny Wobble Just Revealed a Massive Planet That Shouldn’t Exist
Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...
'Gaia’s cosmic surprise': Giant planet found where it shouldn’t exist
Gaia unexpectedly discovered a giant exoplanet and a puzzling brown dwarf, challenging planetary formation theories and ...