Monday 30 April 2018

Gaia Spacecraft Creates Map of More Than 1 Billion Stars in Our Galaxy

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The ESA's Gaia spacecraft has already been studying the Milky Way galaxy for several years, and the second major dataset from Gaia has pinpointed the position and brightness of 1.7 billion stars in our galaxy.

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