ESA - New Gaia release reveals rare lenses, cluster cores and ...
2023年10月10日 · Among other findings, the star surveyor surpasses its planned potential to reveal half a million new and faint stars in a massive cluster, identify over 380 possible cosmic lenses, and pinpoint the positions of more than 150 000 asteroids within the Solar System.
ESA - Gaia overview - European Space Agency
Gaia is mapping the stars from an orbit around the Sun, at a distance of 1.5 million km beyond Earth’s orbit. This special location, known as the L2 Lagrangian point, keeps pace with Earth as we orbit the Sun.
Gaia telescope's new data reveals 'goldmine' of undiscovered stars | Space
2023年10月10日 · New data from the Gaia space telescope are a cosmic goldmine, including never-seen-before stars, 380 gravity-lensed quasars, and the orbits of over 150,000 asteroids.
Gaia space telescope discovers 55 'runaway' careening away from …
2024年10月10日 · Using the Gaia space telescope, astronomers have observed 55 massive stars ejected from their home star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud at speeds equivalent to 80 times the speed of sound.
Gaia Mission News - Gaia - Cosmos - European Space Agency
Gaia will end its operational life in the first half of 2025, after which the mission’s post-operations phase will begin. Four highly successful data releases (DRs) have been achieved so far, all of which were major, transformational events for the astronomical world.
Gaia: Milky Way’s last major collision was surprisingly recent
2024年6月6日 · ESA’s Gaia space telescope now reveals that the most recent of these crashes took place billions of years later than we thought. The Milky Way has grown over time as other galaxies have approached, collided with, and been torn apart and consumed by our galaxy.
How the Webb and Gaia missions bring a new perspective on …
2024年6月10日 · In a recent paper, researchers using the Gaia space telescope identified two streams of stars, named Shakti and Shiva, each of which contains a total mass of around 10 million Suns and which...
ESA Science & Technology - Gaia
21 January 2020. A 500-day global observation campaign spearheaded more than three years ago by ESA’s galaxy-mapping powerhouse Gaia has provided unprecedented insights into the binary system of stars that caused an unusual brightening of an even more distant star. Read More. Gaia untangles the starry strings of the Milky Way. 28 August 2019.
Gaia’s Galactic Cartography: Building the Most ... - SciTechDaily
2023年11月12日 · The Gaia satellite has been charting the sky since 2014, and its map includes stars that are a million times fainter than can be seen with the naked eye. Published in June 2022, the third version of the most complete and detailed catalog of stars (Gaia DR3) is a milestone in astrophysical research.
This 3D Color Map of 1.7 Billion Stars in the Milky Way Is ... - Space.com
2018年4月25日 · The European Space Agency released a new map of nearly 1.7 billion stars from the Gaia spacecraft, giving the best-ever view of the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies in color.