Gaia Mission Is Over, But the Discoveries Are Mind-blowing

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the Gaia telescope and its biggest achievements

Videos:

0:00 End of Gaia mission
0:35 How it started and what it did
2:00 Why it finished
3:30 Shape of Milky Way was not what we thought
4:10 Remnants of collisions
5:10 Main merger - Gaia sausage
6:00 Galaxy that made the solar system
7:05 Bizarre waves and wrinkles
8:00 Dwarf galaxy mysteries
8:35 3D map of gas
9:20 Super fast stars
10:00 Astrometry basics
10:25 Exoplanets!
10:50 Blackholes!
11:25 Asteroids are binary very often
11:55 Many more years of data!
13:00 Conclusions

#gaia #astronomy #telescope

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[ReverendHarris]

Anton mentioned being a grandpa by the time a new mission was operational. I am a grandpa already and constantly share your videos with my grandchildren. I am trying to say how important you are to me and my family. I want you to be successful and to continue providing such a valuable resource to those who still have wonder in their hearts. Thank you.

[PhilW]

Farewell Gaia, you have been a tremendous success and will not be forgotten!

[CarSagan]

Congratulations on being married and a father Anton. May you continue to be fruitful and multiply. What Da Math.

[drahomirmichalko]

Thank you, Gaia, for your excellent work. We in the astrophotography hobby owe you so much!

[stevenkarnisky]

Thank you, Grandpa Anton!!

I never realized just how much this telescope contributed to our knowledge of the cosmos. And it is not done!

[pandemicentitlements]

Anton, perhaps you should do a kids Science video? I'm surprised you have not as of yet. Fascinating stuff as usual, Rest in Space Gaia and thank you for all that you've given us to remain in awe.

[anthonyalfredyorke]

Thanks Anton and have a WONDERFUL weekend and keep WAVING and PEACE AND LOVE TO EVERYONE ❤❤.

[MyraSeavy]

Well, thats just Awesome information! 👏 Anton tells the best stories about everything you can imagine! 👏💫✨️💛

[stevedolesch]

Long live grandpa Anton! Your work is important.

[markharwood]

What an amazing mission Gaia was, and still is.

[damiensmith]

All in all, it must go down as one of the most successful space based observatories ever.

[heisenbugthegeek]

So exciting that there's still so much data still to go through!

[htosav]

BIG salute to the Gaia teams! That's a LOT of data! SO cool to see this happening as we talked of it in 8th grade! (and I am wrinkly!)

[benruniko]

Wow, Gaia project has my respect! Amazing!!!

[dogdrinker]

Thank you Anton, I'm looking forward to the future discovery of wonderful wrinkles in many years!

[Ann-snowshoeingonEnceladus]

Terrific images in this video! The spinning of the Milky Way with its curved edges was like a sparkling ballroom dance.
As a bonus, smiling and waving back at wonderful Anton always gives the child in me a moment of happiness. Thank you. 🌌

[jimcurtis]

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 🤘😎

[davidjames]

Thank you again, Anton for bringing all of us the science news w great graphics and understandable language.😊

[Robert_]

So we finally know more about the shape of our galaxy and etc? That's pretty cool

[George-rkts]

It's neat to look at these projects that take decades just because of the amount we learn from them.

Thank you, wonderful sir.