28 November 2018
A hidden giant found lurking close to the Milky Way
...been spotted by astronomers searching through data from ESA's Gaia spacecraft and its discovery could be the tip of ... but about three orders of magnitude fainter. With the help of Gaia, which is adept at helping astronomers pick out these odd-balls ...
18 October 2021
Netherlands creates international space hotspot
...space technology to a higher level. Two multi-functional buildings, ‘Gaia & Giotto’, are being developed on the campus, offering office...parking facilities, also for e-cars and e-bikes. The GAIA building with a lettable area of 2.200 square metres will...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... enough we need an atmosphere that’s almost completely transparent. Scientists believe every watery world exists in what’s called a Gaia balance in which natural feedback loops adjust the amount of greenhouse gas so that the seas stay liquid...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... constellation, the Earth observation satellites Sentinel (European Union, ESA) and Pleiades (CNES), as well as the scientific Gaia satellite (ESA) in 2013. So far, commercial Soyuz missions have been focused on the launch of 12 satellites to MEO for...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... help us solve these challenging questions we have an exponentially increasing volume of astronomical data from surveys like ESA’s Gaia. The challenge now is to understand stars of all kinds - single, binary and multiple - to establish how they were...
April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
... the ground segment and mission operations of ESA’s astronomy and fundamental physics missions including Herschel & Planck, Gaia, Lisa Pathfinder, Euclid and Plato.
