The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

Incidentally, Gaia’s last targeted observation, on 10 January, was of binary pair 61 Cygni. This iconic star attracted the attention of 19th-century astronomers to yield some of the first proper ...

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By that metric, the ESA's Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy and has forced us to abandon old ideas and replace them with compelling ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Milky Way mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion observations over the past decade. Gaia was launched on ...

Map of the Milky Way plane obtained from data from the Gaia catalog (eDR3). The upper part shows a region where the Palomar 5 star cluster and its tidal tails are observed (DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, ...

This project was part of my research workshop during my bachelor's degree in Astronomy. I used supervised machine learning models (Random Forest and XGBoost) to identify Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars, a rare ...

This library provides software rendering capabilities to OpenGL applications. Note that software rendering is a LOT slower than 3D accelerators, so this library should only be used as a last resort, ...