ESA - The best Milky Way map, by Gaia (edge-on)
2 days ago · This is a new artist’s impression of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESA’s Gaia space telescope. Gaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way. Even seemingly simple ideas about the nature of our galaxy’s central bar and the spiral arms have been overturned. Gaia has shown us that it has more than two spiral arms and that ...
Milky Way - Gaia - Cosmos
Credits: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar - CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO . Edge-on impression of the Milky Way. By clicking the image, a higher-resolution version opens. Credits: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar - CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO . Face-on impression of the Milky Way annotated with labels for the spiral arms.
ESA - The best Milky Way map, by Gaia (labelled)
3 days ago · This is a new artist’s impression of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESA’s Gaia space telescope. Gaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way. Even seemingly simple ideas about the nature of our galaxy’s central bar and the spiral arms have been overturned. Gaia has shown us that it has more than two spiral arms and that ...
ESA - Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia - European Space …
2 days ago · The best Milky Way map, by Gaia (artist impression) Open Image. Gaia has been charting the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition and numerous other characteristics of stars by monitoring them with its three instruments many times over the course of the mission.. This has enabled Gaia to deliver on its primary goal of building the largest, most precise map of the ...
ESA Science & Technology - Gaia
Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped. Data from ESA's star-mapping satellite Gaia suggest the distortion might be caused by an ongoing collision with another, smaller, galaxy, which sends ripples through …
Gaia mission Open Data to build the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way
Gaia is the name of the primal goddess of the Earth in greek mythology – but also an ambitious ESA mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way.
ESA's Gaia spacecraft 'gives best insight yet' of what the Milky Way ...
2 days ago · The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has completed its sky-scanning mission today after mapping the Milky Way for more than 10 years. Gaia has racked up more than three trillion ...
ESA - The best Milky Way map, by Gaia - European Space Agency
2 days ago · This is a new artist’s impression of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESA’s Gaia space telescope. Gaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way. Even seemingly simple ideas about the nature of our galaxy’s central bar and the spiral arms have been overturned. Gaia has shown us that it has more than two spiral arms and that ...
Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way …
3 days ago · Night has fallen for the star-tracking European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last 12 years, shut down science operations on ...
The Most Accurate View of the Milky Way - Universe Today
2 days ago · In the 1980s, infrared telescopes like NASA’s IRAS peered through cosmic dust to help find features like the Milky Way’s central bar. Then, in 1989, the ESA’s Hipparcos mission was launched ...