25 May 2020
Clashing galaxies may have triggered Solar System formation says new study
...round of frenzied star formation. “When we looked into the Gaia data about the Milky Way, we found three periods of increased...not have been possible without the high-quality measurements of Gaia, a mission that is also helping scientists to detect new...
20 August 2018
Galaxy should be teeming with water-worlds say researchers
... figure again for candidate exoplanets (I.e potential exoplanets whose status has yet to be confirmed). Now though, the Gaia satellite has upped the stakes in the mission to find habitable worlds, as it has been able to measure the...
March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
...SAC/ISIS collaboration is built. The Gaia 3U satellite architecture. Gaia 3U with Gecko imager Combining the heritage... as generally used with CubeSat standards. The entry-level Gaia platform delivers all the core subsystems required to perform an...
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...
21 July 2017
A new way to search for gravitational waves?
...as this – the vast amount of data a mission like Gaia produces. As Gaia is aiming to monitor one billion stars, the data generated ...demonstrated that mock data sets constructed using the first Gaia data release can be greatly compressed by a factor...
03 February 2020
Researchers discover "invisible" stars too dim to be seen
... found it. Since beginning science operations in 2014, ESA’s Gaia space observatory has been on a mission to collect high-precision...curve was obtained solely thanks to an early alert from Gaia ,” say the international team in their research paper. “It...
