[ad_1] An international team of astronomers called the Gaia Collaboration has released a new updated catalog from the astronomical satellite Gaia. The catalog is disconcerting: Lists the positions, distances, colors, luminosities and motions of nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way. Two. Billions. This is the third version of …
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[ad_1] The most accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever seen is revealing the secrets of our galaxy. Peering deep into the anticenter – the opposite direction to the galactic center – is helping astronomers reconstruct the Milky Way’s wild past. The European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite, launched in …
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[ad_1] ESA has released Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) and once again provides science and the general public with the most accurate atlas of the Milky Way. The data from the Gaia space telescope are particularly accurate and, according to the researchers involved, will set the standard for studying …
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