Mission Accomplished For Space Telescope Gaia

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• NASA's Perseverance Rover Discovers Evidence of Ancient Lake on Mars

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The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut down after 11 years in space. But the research on data Gaia collected will continue for many years to come.

Gaia is a space telescope onboard a satellite that has orbited the sun for 11 years. With the help of astrometry, which is a technique to measure the positions, distances and movements of stars and other heavenly bodies, Gaia has been able to measure distances and luminosities for up to 2 billion stars, which is about 1% of all stars in the Milky Way.

The Gaia mission was originally supposed to last five years, but thanks to the fact that it has been so successful, it has been extended in two rounds.

Until now, we have, among other things, discovered moons orbiting asteroids in our solar system, black holes 30 times heavier than the sun, and how our solar system moves around the center of the Milky Way, how many spiral arms the Milky Way has and what the bar in the middle looks like.