Gaia Just Found Two Massive Objects That Shouldn’t Exist – And Astronomers Are Stunned
Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...
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Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...
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RIP Gaia: Revolutionary Mission That Mapped The Galaxy To Come To An End This Week
After 10.5 years of observations, Gaia’s eye on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and beyond will turn dark. But it’s not the last we'll hear from its data. "Because so far only a small part of ...
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Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping
"I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." Night has fallen for the star-tracking European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the ...
Gaia Completes Its Stellar Odyssey, Leaving a Cosmic Legacy
The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...