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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

and the orbital motion of a satellite balance each other. Gaia's primary goal was to map the positions and movements of over a billion stars within the Milky Way, creating the largest, most ...

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 ...

Artist impression of ESA's Gaia satellite observing the Milky Way ... Sahlmann said in the same statement. Gaia set out to map the Milky Way after launching in 2013. It charted the positions ...

The star-mapping Gaia satellite was struck by high-speed micrometeoroid, and it left a gap in the shield, scientists say. ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier Science fiction movies that ...

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 ...