07 December 2020
New Gaia data measures Solar System's acceleration
... very likely that further equally fascinating results will be made available soon. “Gaia EDR3 is the result of a huge effort from everyone involved in the Gaia mission. It’s an extraordinarily rich data set, and I look forward to the many discoveries...
25 April 2018
New Gaia data reveals details on over 1.6 billion stars
... ESA revealed details of its second data release from its Gaia mission, which includes an impressive set of information on over 1.6 ...within the Universe. Not only that, but animations built from Gaia data allows the positions of stars to be seen in ...
14 September 2016
Gaia's first map hints at big things to come
...will soon bring to our understanding of cosmic distances.” With the data collected by Gaia throughout the missions lifetime, it will allow scientists to investigate our place in the Universe, from our local neighbourhood, to Galactic and ...
08 February 2017
Bridge between the Magellanic Clouds discovered
...and can be freely accessed. Data obtained by Gaia satellite is unique. Gaia has two telescopes that share the one metre ... Dr Belokurov, study co-author. "Having marked the locations of the Gaia RR Lyrae on the sky, we were surprised to see a narrow...
08 March 2019
Astronomers weigh the galaxy with Hubble and Gaia
... bit chunkier compared to our galactic neighbours. With the help of Gaia, scientists have been able to come up with one of the ... Garching, Germany, lead author of the combined Hubble and Gaia study. That extrapolated figure gives a mass for the Milky...
21 July 2017
A new way to search for gravitational waves?
... to test such an idea. And there is one downside to a search such as this – the vast amount of data a mission like Gaia produces. As Gaia is aiming to monitor one billion stars, the data generated will eventually equate to around 200 terabytes...
