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Unveiling the uncharted Milky Way: Completing the galactic stellar map
By reconstructing stellar orbits using real Milky Way stars with accurately determined parameters, the team quantified the galaxy's mass-weighted chemical abundances and age structure. This ...
ESA’s Gaia Spacecraft Wraps Up Revolutionary Milky Way Mapping Mission
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
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Earth bids farewell to ESA’s Gaia spacecraft
With data from the spacecraft, the ESA released the largest-ever chemical map of the galaxy in 2022, while last year, it spotted the most massive stellar black hole discovered in the Milky Way yet ...
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ESA spacecraft Gaia releases the best Milky Way map before shutting down after 12 years
The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has officially ended its mission to map the Milky Way after 12 years of data collection. The spacecraft shut down its science operations on January 15 ...
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We Finally Know How Old The Stars Are, Say Scientists (And When We Collided With A Cosmic ‘Sausage’)
Gaia was launched in 2013 to map and characterize ... oldest stars. “The chemical composition, location and motion of the stars we can observe today in the Milky Way contain precious information ...