07 December 2020
New Gaia data measures Solar System's acceleration
...precision of the measurements has also improved in ESA’s Gaia Early third Data Release (EDR3), say the space agency, some details ...the Solar System is deflected by the diameter of an atom every second, say the researchers, and in a year this adds up ...
25 April 2018
New Gaia data reveals details on over 1.6 billion stars
... in Germany, ESA revealed details of its second data release from its Gaia mission, which includes an impressive set of information on over 1.6 billion stars in our Milky Way. This second data release, available for download by the wider astronomical...
02 November 2018
Scientists unravel the formation history of the Milky Way
Using information from the second data release of the Gaia mission, scientists have been able ...Netherlands, who, after looking at the motions of seven million stars in the Gaia data, found that 30, 000 of them were behaving rather oddly. Instead of ...
02 May 2018
Astronomers spot fastest stars in the galaxy with Gaia
New research from the second data release from the Gaia mission is already revealing some interesting ...an international team of astronomers have scoured the second iteration of the Gaia data and found some likely candidates. From seven candidates found hidden ...
25 May 2020
Clashing galaxies may have triggered Solar System formation says new study
...scientists have managed by piecing together about 73 Terabytes of data produced by Gaia as it observed around one billion stars an average of...of frenzied star formation. “When we looked into the Gaia data about the Milky Way, we found three periods of...
