Gaia astronomical revolution

Launched in December 2013, the Gaia mission is revolutionising our understanding of the Milky Way. The space telescope is mapping our galaxy in unprecedented detail – measuring the position, movement and distance of stars.

At a meeting in Groningen in the Netherlands, scientists have been discussing the challenge of processing and visualising Gaia data.

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[tonyelsom]

This is exiting..EVERYTHING is exiting about space exploration advances these days, damn shame we older earthlings had to wait so long for this to happen..🚀

[belladivision]

The human mind is astounding.

Thank you ESA.

[phil]

Thanks to all the astronomers at ESA and the GAIA project!

[injeolmi]

Thank you very much, ESA! We'll be waiting for the 2022 data drop.

[NeonsStyleHD]

Given it's determining position and velocity of all the stars. It should also provide a future proof dynamic map of the galaxy. We just need a computer that can handle it all, and dynamically maintain the accurate star positions.

[Konstantinos]

optimisation of the optical bench was an assignment set as a problem in my design module! i had a lot of reading to do on this satellite. It will produce so much data that we are looking at a new cycle of scientific discovery with all the data that will be compiled!

[marcusalm]

GAIA has made great strides in finding distances between stars and Earth.

Except AGB stars... made my bachelor thesis a lot more irritating 😅

[douginorlando]

With Gaia’s 10 micro arcsecond resolution, the galaxy rotation speed of our Sun (220 km/sec) should allow measurement of star parallax motion on the other side of the Galaxy. Even a parallax measurement of Andromeda is possible.

[mkst]

Forget Hollywood tour guides....this is the real Map of the Stars.

[joaodecarvalho]

Following the footsteps of Tycho Brahe
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[ssyron]

Can the counter rotation of the newly discovered stars be due to a birkeland current flowing through our galaxy?

[claudelebel]

Will we crumble under all of this data.

[drmaheshchauhan]

So now i know, it’s not we, it’s us😁

[raTTy_auT]

"GAIA is probably one of humanitys greatest missions, one of the greatest catalogues of data that has currently existest to go through. its almost impossible to give you all the ways in which is impacting astrophysics." Wow, well ... thanks for the description !... if you can next time make it a tiny little notch even more generic we are on trump level information" It is so great, one of the greatest things people ever have seen, its so amazing you wouldn't understand it." Well anyways, have an upvote, because ESA is great, as well as the GAIA mission.

[isaacisaiah]

I want pictures of space, not stupid 3-D graphics.