highly anticipated release of data from the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft. The new 3D map, which was unveiled here at the ILA Berlin Air Show, offers the best-ever look at the Milky Way ...

The Gaia Project's Data Release 3: a 3D Map of the Milky Way The new map of the Milky Way includes information on parallax and proper motion (velocity across the sky) for more than 1.3 billion stars.

The mission produced a near-complete 3D rendering of the home galaxy ... This image shows four sky maps made with the new ESA Gaia data released on June 13, 2022. Clockwise from top right ...

The 3D map indicates where the cloud most muddies the ... Of the 220 million spectra released by the Gaia mission in June 2022, the research team selected 130 million stars that they determined ...

Gaia's primary goal was to map the positions and movements of over a billion stars within the Milky Way, creating the largest, most precise 3D map of our galaxy. To do so, it was equipped with ...

All those maps—my jaw dropped,” says Ronald Drimmel, an astronomer at the Astrophysical Observatory of Turin at Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics and a member of the Gaia Data ...

Gaia set out to map the Milky Way after launching in 2013. It charted the positions of nearly two billion stars, providing a precise 3D map of our galaxy. The mission's accomplishments include ...

A map of the metallicity of Milky Way stars, ranging from low metal content (blue) to high metal content (red) Gaia also showed that it was able to detect starquakes in thousands of stars as large ...

A 3D animation of the Quaia sky map compared to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Credit: Storey-Fisher, et al. 2024 Originally, the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite focused on mapping a 3D ...

Europe's Gaia telescope has dropped its latest batch ... possibility of them passing close to Earth And with some of these 3D stars also mapped in the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, we should have ...

Gaia is the European Space Agency astrometry ... a result that is in agreement with previous studies and existing 3D dust maps. But even more pleasing is when it goes further by improving the ...