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After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are ...
Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially retired its Gaia spacecraft, after over ten years of data collection on our ...
The last commands have been sent to the ESA's Gaia satellite and, after a dozen years scanning the galaxy, the spacecraft is ...
As part of this, the telescope measured the exact location and motion of nearly 2 billion stars and other space objects, millions of galaxies, and 150,000 asteroids. Gaia also measured brightness and ...
ESA’s Gaia mission ends after 12 years, having mapped 2 billion stars and reshaped astronomy. Its data will fuel discoveries ...
They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this amazing space telescope. Gaia has been the most successful ESA space mission ever, so why did ...