Though the new data has helped fill in some unexplored regions in Gaia's 3D map of the Milky Way, it is of interest to scientists in itself, helping better model the Omega Centauri globular cluster.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Gaia’s goal was to create a 3D map of our entire galaxy, and so far it has revealed the structure of the Milky Way in the greatest detail ever obtained. It has uncovered evidence that our galaxy ...

The map, assembled with data from the Gaia spacecraft, shows how the spread of dark matter across space matches that described by the Cosmic Microwave Background. An enormous map of the universe ...

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 ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission ...

ESA's Gaia star surveying satellite launches European Space Agency starts to unfold atlas of 1 billion stars in 3D Carrying two telescopes, the spacecraft's mission was to map the Milky Way ...

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 ...

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 ...