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The last commands have been sent to the ESA's Gaia satellite and, after a dozen years scanning the galaxy, the spacecraft is shutting down its computers and boosting out into a retirement orbit around ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has completed its sky-scanning mission today after mapping the Milky Way for more than 10 years. Gaia has racked up more than three trillion ...

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This is a map of the entire sky, captured by ESA's Gaia mission. Overlaid as yellow dots are the locations of over 1000 young stars; these stars make up the newly discovered Ophion family in the Milky ...