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Live Science on MSNGaia telescope retires: Scientists bid farewell to 'the discovery machine of the decade' that mapped 2 billion Milky Way starsAfter 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...
The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...
In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are ...
After over a decade of stellar service, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft has been retired – but its legacy is just beginning. From ...
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.
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ExtremeTech on MSNEuropean Space Agency Bids Farewell to Gaia MissionAcknowledgement: A. Moitinho The European Space Agency (ESA) has said goodbye to Gaia, its "billion star surveyor." After nearly 11 years of celestial science—twice its planned ...
Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...
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 has collected data on billions of stars for more than ten years and will take years to analyze. It will be switched off ...
Since launching in 2013, the telescope has been charting the positions, motion and properties of nearly two billion stars to create a vast map of the Milky Way, revealing many secrets of the cosmos ...
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