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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 iconic star attracted the attention of 19th-century astronomers to yield some of the first proper motion and parallax measurements, techniques used by Gaia on some two billion stars.