ESA Press Releases & Information notes

  • 20 May 1999: ESA medals mark the Hipparcos revolution in astronomy
  • 01 April 1998: Hipparcos reveals that the Milky Way is changing shape
  • 19 February 1998: Hipparcos makes an accurate 3-D chart of an important star cluster
  • 05 January 1998: Hipparcos pinpoints an amazing gamma-ray clock
  • 08 December 1997: Millennium Star Atlas marks the completion of ESA's Hipparcos Mission
  • 16 May 1997: Beyond Hipparcos: Europe's astronomers want to pinpoint more stars, more exactly
  • 15 May 1997: Star wars in Venice: Hipparcos astronomers disagree about the ages
  • 14 May 1997: Hipparcos confirms violent chain reactions of star formation
  • 13 May 1997: Astronomers enthuse about Hipparcos but the Pleides puzzle them
  • 12 May 1997: The impact of Hipparcos star-fixing extends to life's evolution
  • 06 May 1997: A vista of new knowledge from ESA's Hipparcos astronomy mission
  • 14 February 1997: Europe's Hipparcos satellite revises the scale of the cosmos