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The ESA Gaia mission has delivered the best Milky Way maps to date and taken its last starlight before spacecraft retirement. These new Gaia maps are the best reconstructed views of how our Milky Way galaxy might look to an outside observer. They show us our place in the

Farewell, Gaia! Spacecraft Operations Manager Peter Collins confirms that Gaia has fallen silent, having been successfully passivated and switched off after more than a decade spent mapping the cosmos. esa.int/Enabling_Suppo…

The Gaia spacecraft has begun its well deserved retirement, but there is still much more to come from the mission's team on Earth. Gaia Data release 4 is planned to be published in 2026, and the final data catalogues are planned for release no earlier than the end of 2030.

These releases will ensure that ESA's Gaia mission goes on to shape astronomy research for many years to come. cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/relea…

Auf Wiedersehen, Gaia. esa.int/Enabling_Suppo…

The ESA's Gaia satellite has been officially switched off. Yet #Gaia still has much to offer! So, sit tight, because even from its retirement orbit, Gaia will continue to shape our understanding of the cosmos for decades to come. Read more at: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

🛰️Bye-bye Gaia! 👋 Zehneinhalb Jahre lang hat der ESA-Satellit über 3 Billionen hochpräzise Messungen von etwa zwei Milliarden Sternen durchgeführt. Nun ist das kalte Gas, das für Gaias Arbeit nötig ist, aufgebraucht. Credit: ESA–D. Ducros, 2013

Heute wurde Gaia mit einem letzten Schub in die finale Umlaufbahn um die Sonne gebracht und mit einem letzten Befehl aus dem Kontrollzentrum in Darmstadt vollständig deaktiviert. Bild: Gaia erfasst junge Sterne in der Milchstraße Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Kevin Jardine, Stefan

Doch damit ist die Mission selbst noch lange nicht beendet! Forschende arbeiten weiterhin mit Daten von Gaia, die in einen umfassenden Sternenkatalog einfließen. Dieser enthält hochpräzise Messungen von Positionen, Entfernungen und Bewegungen von über einer Milliarde Sternen

Après plus de dix années passées à cartographier le cosmos, le télescope spatial ESA Gaia a été passivé et éteint ce matin. La mission n'est pas terminée pour l'équipe de Gaia, qui prépare deux volumineuses parutions de données, prévues respectivement vers 2026 et la fin de

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into 'retirement' after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for decades to come rte.ie/news/newslens/…

Attention #GaiaData Users, if you missed the below👇 Update on the #GaiaDR4 contents!

Science keeps coming from ESA Gaia ! It has spotted a family of stars behaving oddly and rushing to fly their cosmic nest. It seems some stars just can't wait to leave home 🏠⭐ Read more 👉 esa.int/Science_Explor… #GaiaMission #MilkyWay

Gaia essay 228. Cepheid variables: an update. Based on the 15,000 classified Cepheids in DR3, advances include improved assignment to their membership of open clusters, updates of the period-luminosity relation, and various studies of Galactic structure. michaelperryman.co.uk/gaia-essays

I've converted my first 80 Gaia essays to an audio discussion format using generative AI. The results, which are accurate and engaging, are on my YouTube channel youtube.com/@GaiaEssays. Numbers 46 and 47, for example, describe the astrometric iterative solution. Have a listen!

Gaia essays 229. RR Lyrae variables: an update and 230. The Oosterhoff dichotomy I'm off for two weeks, so here's an early link to my next two essays. If you're interested in galaxy formation, do read about Gaia's contribution to the Oosterhoff dichotomy wix.to/ja0sZRM

#GaiaScience update! Gaia found many star families but now spotted a family like no other: Ophion. The group of >1000 young stars behaves oddly, with stars rushing out across our galaxy in a totally haphazard, uncoordinated way... Why? It's a mystery... esa.int/Science_Explor…

Hubble & Gaia can reveal mysteries never seen before when joining forces... the subtle motion of a magnetar was revealed as it inched across the sky, allowing to investigate the magnetar's birthplace. It was not born in a neighbouring supernova after all! esa.int/Science_Explor…

Find Gaia's newest list of the fastest stars across the sky based on #GaiaDR3: cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow_2… The fastest one? Barnard's star! A small red dwarf star in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

Though Gaia observed the sky for 10,5 years, results so far are based on 3 years of data. #GaiaDR4 (5,5 years of data) and #GaiaDR5 (10,5 years of data) are yet to come. Still, Gaia has already rewritten the story of our Milky Way! esa.int/ESA_Multimedia… youtu.be/LrV7xeAM7bg