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 …

Nov 3, 2020 · Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, in the process revealing the composition, formation and evolution of the Galaxy.

Sep 1, 2019 · The main goal of the Gaia mission is to make the largest, most precise three-dimensional map of our Galaxy by surveying an unprecedented one per cent of the galaxy's …

ESA's Gaia mission has one main goal, to map the Milky Way more extensively and with greater precision than any other mission to date. Using astrometry, the science of measuring the …

Apr 25, 2018 · ESA's Gaia mission has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars and revealing previously unseen …

Gaia is designed with a single, primary goal in mind: to investigate the origin and subsequent evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. To do this, it will conduct an astronomical census of 1 …

Sep 1, 2019 · The Gaia spacecraft is comprised of three major functional modules: The Payload Module containing the optical instrument and all electronics required to manage its operation …

Feb 26, 2019 · ESA's Gaia satellite was launched in 2013 to create the most precise three-dimensional map of more than one billion stars in the Milky Way. The mission has released …

Sep 1, 2019 · Gaia is one of the most demanding of the 14 spacecraft operated by the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) at Darmstadt in Germany. Situated 1.5 million km from us, …

Apr 7, 2021 · Thanks to ESA's star mapping spacecraft Gaia and machine learning, astronomers have discovered 12 quasars whose light is so strongly deflected by foreground galaxies that …