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2025
18/12/2025 - [ESA] - Gaia finds hints of planets in baby star systems
15/12/2025 - [Keck Observatory] - Discoveries from Maunakea reveal hidden worlds around accelerating stars
19/11/2025 - [EarthSky.org] - Lost sisters of the Pleiades are scattered across the sky
18/11/2025 - [Universe Today] - The Andromeda Galaxy Quenches Its Satellite Galaxies Long Before They Fall In
12/11/2025 - [ABC news] - 'Seven Sisters' Pleiades star cluster has thousands of stellar 'siblings', telescopes reveal
27/10/2025 - [India Times] - Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS a cosmic time capsule? Spain University reconstructs 10-million year trajectory
16/10/2025 - [BBC Sky at Night] - There's a huge wave rippling through our Galaxy, and scientists have no idea what's causing it
02/10/2025 - [Der Standard] - Eine gewaltige Welle deformiert unsere Milchstraße
30/09/2025 - [Europlanet] - Gaia solves mystery of tumbling asteroids and finds a new way to probe their interiors
30/09/2025 - [ESA] - Gaia discovers our galaxy's great wave
17/09/2025 - [BBC Sky at Night] - Take a 3D flight through our Galaxy and see it from above. New map shows what the Milky Way looks like from the outside
16/09/2025 - [ESA] - Fly through Gaia's 3D map of stellar nurseries
10/09/2025 - [NRC] - 'Iedereen is fan' van de Europese sonde die de subtiele structuren van de Melkweg heeft blootgelegd
26/08/2025 - [ESA] - Gaia proves our skies are filled with chains of starry gatherings
14/07/2025 - [ESA] - You can’t judge a star by its protoplanetary disc
25/06/2025 - [Le Scienze] - L'eredità grandiosa e poco conosciuta di Gaia
18/06/2025 - [Scientific American] - Gaia's long goodbye
02/06/2025 - [Volkskrant] - Aarde ontsnapt mogelijk aan kosmische klap: toch geen botsing met ander sterrenstelsel
02/06/2025 - [ESA] - Hubble and Gaia revisit the fate of our galaxy
31/05/2025 - [BBC Sky at Night] - What the ESA Gaia mission discovered
29/05/2025 - [EOS] - The Late, Great Gaia Helps Reveal Asteroid Masses
29/04/2025 - [ESA] - Gaia spots odd family of stars desperate to leave home
24/04/2025 - [MDR] - ESA schaltet Gaia ab: "Das wird emotional"
20/04/2025 - [PBS] - Gaia space observatory bids farewell after a decade of mapping the stars
15/04/2025 - [ESA] - Hubble investigates a magnetar's birthplace, with help from Gaia
02/04/2025 - [Livescience.com] - Gaia telescope retires: Scientists bid farewell to 'the discovery machine of the decade' that mapped 2 billion Milky Way stars
31/03/2025 - [CBC Radio] - It gave us the best map of the Milky Way. Now the Gaia spacecraft is orbiting into retirement
31/03/2025 - [ASI] - Il satellite Gaia è stato spento, ma avrà ancora tanto da dare alla scienza
30/03/2025 - [The Conversation] - The best space telescope you never heard of just shut down
28/03/2025 - [Times of India] - Europe's space agency retires Gaia, the cosmic mapmaker
28/03/2025 - [ESA] - Rewriting the story of the Milky Way
27/03/2025 - [New York Times] - Farewell to Gaia, the Milky Way's Cartographer
27/03/2025 - [University of Barcelona] - Gaia satellite operations come to an end
27/03/2025 - [ZEIT] - Europäische Raumfahrtbehörde beendet Betrieb der Sonde Gaia
27/03/2025 - [DLR] - Ende einer Ära – Wissenschaftssatellit Gaia wird abgeschaltet
27/03/2025 - [India Express] - Europe’s space agency retires Gaia, the cartographer of the cosmos: Its mission & significance
27/03/2025 - [ESA] - Farewell, Gaia! Spacecraft operations come to an end / Video release: ESA's Gaia spacecraft leaves for retirement orbit
27/03/2025 - [ESA] - The disappearance of ESA's Gaia spacecraft!
24/03/2025 - [Spiegel] - Die wichtigste Raumsonde, von der Sie noch nie gehört haben
06/03/2025 - [CfA] - Runaway Stars Reveal Hidden Black Hole In Milky Way’s Nearest Neighbor
25/02/2025 - [University of Vienna] - The Galactic Journey of our Solar System
20/02/2025 - [BBC Sky at Night] - Photographer captures image of galaxy-mapping Gaia spacecraft in the night sky – from his own back garden
18/02/2025 - [Uppsala University] - Mission Accomplished for Space Telescope Gaia
07/02/2025 - [SciTechDaily] - Gaia Just Found Two Massive Objects That Shouldn’t Exist – And Astronomers Are Stunned
06/02/2025 - [India Today] - Object 21 times bigger than Jupiter discovered. It's neither a planet, nor a star.
04/02/2025 - [Noirlab] - High-Precision NEID spectrograph helps confirm first Gaia astrometric planet discovery
04/02/2025 - [Carnegie Science] - First Gaia astrometric planet discovery confirmed
04/02/2025 - [ESA] - Wobbling stars reveal hidden companions in Gaia data / Video release: ESA’s Gaia finds a mysterious planet and brown dwarf
21/01/2025 - [Spiegel] - Raumsonde »Gaia« revolutionierte das Bild der Milchstraße, nun ist der Sprit alle
19/01/2025 - [ZEIT] - Die revolutionärste Mission, die kaum jemand kennt
17/01/2025 - [University of Leicester] - Gaia space telescope completes its scanning of the Milky Way
17/01/2025 - [Volkskrant] - Leidse astronoom Anthony Brown in Volkskrant: ‘Onderzoek zonder Gaia kan ik me niet meer voorstellen’
17/01/2025 - [Leiden University] - Last starlight for space telescope Gaia
16/01/2025 - [University of Warsaw] - The last light of the Gaia Space Mission
16/01/2025 - [Der Standard] - Bisher genauestes Bild der Milchstraße zum Abschied der Esa-Sonde Gaia
15/01/2025 - [Orbital Today] - The ESA Gaia Spacecraft Has Ended Its Life
15/01/2025 - [INAF - Oservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo] - Oggi il satellite Gaia viene messo a riposo
15/01/2025 - [Media INAF] - Il satellite Gaia va in pensione
15/01/2025 - [Royal Observatory of Belgium] - The Gaia spacecraft is ending its life of observations, but the harvest continues
15/01/2025 - [Sky and Telescope] - Galaxy-mapping Gaia satellite ends science operations
15/01/2025 - [University of Barcelona] - Last starlight for the ground-breaking Gaia mission
15/01/2025 - [University of Cambridge] - Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia
15/01/2025 - [AIP] - Letztes Sternenlicht für das bahnbrechende Gaia Weltraumteleskop
15/01/2025 - [Universe Today] - The Gaia Mission's Science Operations are Over
15/01/2025 - [CNES] - Gaia livre sa dernière donnée, mais pas sa dernière découverte
15/01/2025 - [ASI] - La missione Gaia dell'agenzia spatiale Europea termina le sue operazioni scientifiche
15/01/2025 - [ESA] - Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia / Image release: The best Milky Way map, by Gaia (edge-on) / The best Milky Way map, by Gaia (face-on) / Sky-scanning complete for Gaia / Video release: The best Milky Way animation, by Gaia
14/01/2025 - [Heise] - Treibstoff alle: Bahnbrechendes Weltraumteleskop Gaia kurz vor dem Ruhestand
2024
19/12/2024 - [Astrobiology.com] - Triton atmosphere pressure: a new value is obtained
29/10/2024 - [Times of India] - Astronomers discover black hole that may have formed without supernova
24/10/2024 - [Times of India] - ESA's Gaia Space Telescope discovers first ever triple black hole system, stunning scientists
11/10/2024 - [Space.com] - Gaia space telescope discovers 55 'runaway' stars careening away from stellar cluster at 80 times the speed of sound
02/09/2024 - [CNES] - Gaia : 10 ans de la première donnée scientifique
12/08/2024 - [WELT] - Raumsonde „Gaia“ spürt mehr als 350 Asteroiden mit Monden auf
12/08/2024 - [NASA Spaceflight] - Gaia detects more than 350 possible asteroid moons
10/08/2024 - [Universe Today] - Gaia finds hundreds of asteroid moons
08/08/2024 - [DerStandard] - Weltraumteleskop Gaia erspähte Monde bei hunderten Asteroiden
08/08/2024 - [BBC sky at night] - Gaia spacecraft may have found over 350 new moons in our Solar System, and they're all orbiting asteroids
08/08/2024 - [BBC sky at night] - What would the Webb Telescope look like if you saw it in space? This European space mission found out
08/08/2024 - [ESA] - Gaia spots possible moons around hundreds of asteroids / Image release: Gaia spots possible moons around hundreds of asteroids
17/07/2024 - [ESA Enabling and Support] - Double trouble: Gaia hit by micrometeoroid and solar storm
20/06/2024 - [ESA] - Scientists spot hidden companions of bright stars
06/06/2024 - [ESA] - Gaia: Milky Way's last major collision was surprisingly recent
28/05/2024 - [ESA Science] - Overview of ESA's cosmic observers
22/04/2024 - [ESA] - Sailing among the stars - Gaia's role in discovering distant worlds
17/04/2024 - [Times of India] - Astronomers find biggest stellar black hole in Milky Way galaxy 'by chance'
17/04/2024 - [DeutschlandFunkNova.de] - Gaia-Teleskop entdeckt drittes Schwarzes Loch
17/04/2024 - [CNES] - Gaia découvre un trou noir stellaire de masse record dans notre galaxie
16/04/2024 - [Royal Observatory of Belgium] - New Black Hole discovered with ESA's Gaia satellite
16/04/2024 - [University of Barcelona] - Gaia mission detects the most massive black hole of stellar origin in the Milky Way
16/04/2024 - [ESO] - Most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy found
16/04/2024 - [Spektrum] - Das massereichste stellare Schwarze Loch der Galaxis
16/04/2024 - [AIP] - Gaia entdeckt großes schlafendes Schwarzes Loch in unserer Galaxie
16/04/2024 - [University of Warsaw] - Record-mass black hole discovered by the Gaia mission
16/04/2024 - [University of Leicester] - Large dormant black hole spotted in our galaxy
16/04/2024 - [CNN] - Astronomers spot a massive ‘sleeping giant’ black hole less than 2,000 light-years from Earth
16/04/2024 - [University of Leiden] - Scientists discover the largest stellar black hole in the Milky Way
16/04/2024 - [ESA] - Sleeping giant surprises Gaia scientists
02/04/2024 - [Frankfurter Rundschau] - „Gaia“-Sonde entdeckt uralte Strukturen im Weltall – „Milchstraße hat sich stark verändert“
22/03/2024 - [Space.com] - 'Shiva and Shakti': The ancient star streams that helped weave the Milky Way
22/03/2024 - [Hindustan Times] - Gaia telescope reveals insights into Milky Way's history
21/03/2024 - [MPG] - Researchers identify two of the Milky Way's earliest building blocks
21/03/2024 - [BBC] - ESA Gaia: Telescope uncovers the history of the milky way galaxy
21/03/2024 - [CNN] - Earliest building blocks of the Milky Way discovered near its galactic heart
21/03/2024 - [ESA] - Gaia unravels the ancient threads of the Milky Way / Image release: The starry streams making up the Milky Way
18/03/2024 - [ESA] - Gaia maps largest ever collection of quasars in space and time
20/02/2024 - [CfA] - The Radcliffe Wave is Waving
2023
19/12/2023 - [University of Torino] - 10 years of science with Gaia. A treasure chest of 2 billion stars to be revealed
19/12/2023 - [CNES] - Gaia a 10 ans !
19/12/2023 - [GalacticChloe] - This strange object has been talking to us for 10 years
19/12/2023 - [ESA] - Gaia's decade of discoveries unravelling the intricacies of our galaxy / Image release: The Milky Way's updated image / interactive map based on Gaia's (Early) Data Release 3 sky in colour / infographic highlighting Gaia's achievements / Reel: Gaia turns 10
18/12/2023 - [University of Leicester] - Gaia: the galactic mapmaker that is leading a ‘silent revolution’
29/11/2023 - [CfA] - Distant Stars Spotted for the First Time in the Vast Magellanic Stream
13/10/2023 - [Universe Today] - A huge new Gaia data release: More stars, gravitational lenses and asteroids
10/10/2023 - [University of Leiden] - Gaia data maps globular cluster, gravitational lensing and asteroids with great precision
10/10/2023 - [University of Cambridge] - Latest Gaia data release reveals rare lenses, cluster cores and unforeseen science
10/10/2023 - [TU Dresden] - New press release on the Gaia Mission: Rare lenses, cluster nuclei and surprising discoveries
10/10/2023 - [Wissenschaft.de] - Neues vom Gaia-Weltraumtelescop
10/10/2023 - [University of Barcelona] - Gaia mission identifies half a million new stars in Omega Centauri cluster
10/10/2023 - [GOV.UK] - Report highlights impact of UK contribution to the Gaia mission
10/10/2023 - [ESA] - Press release of Gaia Focused Product Release: New Gaia release reveals rare lenses, cluster cores and unforeseen science / Video release: Panning across new Gaia view of Omega Centauri / Image releases: Gaia reveals crowded core of massive star cluster / 10 times more stars: Comparing two Gaia views of Omega Centauri (slider) / Gaia locates hundreds of lensed quasar candidates in new data release / 20 times more precise: Gaia maps 150 000+ asteroid orbits / Gaia characterises dynamics of 10 000 variable stars
10/08/2023 - [ESA Enabling and Support] - Solar System fingerprints found in memories of ESA flotilla
24/07/2023 - [Universe Today] - A new technique lets us learn what the Milky Way's arems are made of
23/05/2023 - [ESA] - Has Gaia found missing link in black hole revolution?
13/04/2023 - [ESA] - Wobbling star found in Gaia-Hipparcos data confirmed to host exoplanet
30/03/2023 - [ESA] - Gaia discovers a new family of black holes
21/03/2023 - [ESA Enabling and Support] - Amateur astronomers needed: help classify stars with Gaia's data
08/02/2023 - [Observatoire de Paris] - Improbable discovery of a ring around the transneptunian object Quaoar
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