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Gaia – Surveying a billion stars
Welcome to ESA’s Gaia blog! Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Waycopyright: ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier Gaia is a global space astrometry mission. It will make the largest, most...
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Stories of the stars
Giant star Zeta Ophiuchi. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech Gaia, the billion star surveyor. This is the mission slogan. A billion stars. One thousand million stars… That is a lot. Really a lot of stars. If...
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Take a virtual journey through the Milky Way! This virtual journey shows the different components that make up our home galaxy, the Milky Way, which contains about a hundred billion stars. It starts at...
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Gaia discovers its first supernova
While scanning the sky to measure the positions and movements of stars in our Galaxy, Gaia has discovered its first stellar explosion in another galaxy far, far away. This powerful event, now named...
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