The technology behind this map is the Gaia satellite, which contains two telescopes and other instrumentation, including cameras with nearly a billion pixels, making it the largest digital camera ...

"There was very little memory on board, and the satellite had to communicate ... which makes this map more and more colorful. Gaia is also credited with virtually creating the field of galactic ...

satellite Gaia better measure the positions of about two billion stars as well as their distances from Earth and movements while building a precise, 3-dimensional map of the Milky Way. Scientists ...

But now a new tranche of data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite, aiming to map stars in our galaxy in unprecedented detail, has come in to shed light on the issue. The Gaia Archive ...

Having launched into space in December 2013, the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite is now 1.5 million kilometres from Earth and ready to begin its mission to map our galaxy. Gaia will use a ...

Today’s release, based on 22 months’ worth of data from ESA’s Gaia sky-mapping satellite ... Love this radial velocity map. Can anyone who isn't too busy #GaiaDay-ing explain why all ...

ESA's Gaia star surveying satellite launches European Space Agency starts to unfold atlas of 1 billion stars in 3D Carrying two telescopes, the spacecraft's mission was to map the Milky Way ...

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Gaia closed its eyes on January 15, marking the end of its mission. The European Space Agency (ESA) satellite has spent ... in our Solar System, or to map 1.3 million quasars, the bright, active ...

The three-dimensional map that Gaia created, helps to write the history ... the Gaia observations were stopped because the fuel that steers the satellite in the orbit around the sun will soon ...

Though the new data has helped fill in some unexplored regions in Gaia's 3D map of the Milky Way ... See a European satellite take a fiery fall through the atmosphere in world-1st mission ...