Legendary Gaia Spacecraft Maps Entire Galaxy, Promptly Retires
The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...
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Breathtaking new map of the X-ray Universe
The Vela supernova remnant is a mere 800 light-years from Earth The map uses ... a great swathe of the map represent hot gas inside and just outside our galaxy. This material imprints information ...
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RIP Gaia: Revolutionary Mission That Mapped The Galaxy To Come To An End This Week
The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has almost completely depleted the cold gas propellant that kept it spinning and ...
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Earth bids farewell to ESA’s Gaia spacecraft
The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...