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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 release20 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

 

2022

20/12/2022 - [MPG] - Astronomers identify the ancient heart of the Milky Way galaxy

18/11/2022 - [CfA] - The Tilt in our Stars: The Shape of the Milky Way's Halo of Stars is Realized

04/11/2022 - [MPG] - New method finds black hole closest to Earth

04/11/2022 - [CfA] - Astronomers Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth

04/11/2022 - [Spiegel] - Schwarzes Loch in Erdnähe entdeckt

21/10/2022 - [ESA Science] - ESA spacecraft catch the brightest ever gamma-ray burst

20/10/2022 - [ESA Enabling and Support] - Shadow hunters capture Didymos asteroid eclipsing stars

12/10/2022 - [ESA Space Safety] - 30 000 near-Earth asteroids discovered and rising

11/08/2022 - [ESA] - Gaia reveals the past and future of the Sun

23/07/2022 - [Le Monde] - Gaia, the Milky Way's cartographer

14/07/2022 - [EOS] - Galaxy mapper tracks asteroids closer to home

01/07/2022 - [CfA] - Our Galaxy's Most Recent Major Collision

22/06/2022 - [Scientific American] - New map of Milky Way are biggest and best yet

21/06/2022 - [The Hindu] - Explained | What is the Gaia space mission and what has it revealed about the Milky Way?

18/06/2022 - [DerStandard] - Teleskop Gaia bringt Theorien zur Milchstraße ins Wanken

17/06/2022 - [University of Helsinki] - Gaia space telescope rocks the science of asteroids

14/06/2022 - [ARD1] - Blick in die Milchstraße

14/06/2022 - [Observatoire de Paris] - Publication of the third Gaia catalog

14/06/2022 - [El Pais] - The most complete map of the Milky Way reveals starquakes and cannibal galaxies

13/06/2022 - [The Guardian] - Gaia prove reveals stellar DNA and unexpected 'starquakes'

13/06/2022 - [SWR] - Gaia – Neue Informationen über die Milchstraße

13/06/2022 - [CBC] - European space telescope releases unprecedented details about our galaxy

13/06/2022 - [MPG] - Cosmic census: The European Gaia satellite has collected the most comprehensive data set to date

13/06/2022 - [University of Leicester] - Largest chemical map of the Milky Way unveiled

13/06/2022 - [nature.com] - Mega-map of Milky Way adds depth to stars’ motions

13/06/2022 - [CNN] - Space telescope spots unexpected starquakes

13/06/2022 - [BBC] - Gaia continues quest for the ultimate sky map

13/06/2022 - [CNES] - Gaia : nouveau catalogue d’étoiles, nouvelles découvertes !

13/06/2022 - [Spiegel] - Esa kartiert 1,8 Milliarden Sterne

13/06/2022 - [ESA] - Press release Gaia Data Release 3: Gaia sees strange stars in most detailed Milky Way survey to date / Video release: Chemistry of asteroids as seen by Gaia / the asymmetric Milky Way in motion / Gaia Data Release 3: exploring our multi-dimensional Milky Way / Asteroid populations in Gaia Data Release 3 / The chemistry of our Milky Way / Image release: Exploring the multi-dimensional Milky Way (portrait version) / Exploring the multi-dimensional Milky Way (landscape version) / You are here / Gaia's Milky Way in motionGaia's chemical map of the Milky Way / Sonification: Gaia sees starquakes

10/06/2022 - [ESA] - Gaia observes the Milky Way

10/06/2022 - [ESA] - Watch live: first impressions from Gaia's data release 3

07/06/2022 - [ESA] - Jupiter's moon Europa to obscure distant star

26/05/2022 - [Deutschlandfunk] - Gaia sieht das James-Webb-Teleskop

24/05/2022 - [Shawprize.org] - Shaw prize awarded to Lennart Lindegren and Michael Perryman

13/05/2022 - [ESA] - Gaia ESA's billion star surveyor

23/03/2022 - [ESA] - Gaia finds parts of the Milky Way much older than expected​​​​​​

23/02/2022 - [Universe Today] - Gaia finds ancient satellite galaxy Pontus embedded in Milky Way

17/02/2022 - [EarthSky] - History of Milky Way mergers revealed in Gaia data

17/02/2022 - [ESA] - Gaia reveals a new member of the Milky Way family

16/02/2022 - [El Pais] - We really do live inside a bubble (and it's not social media)

20/01/2022 - [New York Times] - A new map of the Sun's Local Bubble

14/01/2022 - [Smithsonian Magazine] - A star-producing, cosmic bubble shrouds our solar system

12/01/2022 - [ABC news] - Local Bubble, hot void around our solar system, first inflated by exploding star 14m years ago

12/01/2022 - [CfA] - 1,000-Light-Year Wide Bubble Surrounding Earth is Source of All Nearby, Young Stars

 

2021

24/11/2021 - [ESA] - Gaia reveals that most Milky Way companion galaxies are newcomers to our corner of space

22/09/2021 - [CfA] - Gigantic Cavity in Space Sheds New Light on How Stars Form

18/08/2021 - [India Today] - There is a break in our galaxy: Astronomers find unique structures coming out of Milky Way

17/08/2021 - [JPL] - Astronomers find a 'break' in one of the Milky Way's spiral arms

30/07/2021 - [ARD1] - Die Erde als Exoplanet für Aliens

16/07/2021 - [Tel Aviv University] - Two new planets found in Milky Way

18/05/2021 - [sci.news] - New research sheds light on formation history of Milky Way

17/05/2021 - [Sciencenews.org] - The Milky Way may have grown up faster than astronomers suspected

09/04/2021 - [Sci.news] - Astronomers discover twelve new quadruply-imaged quasars

07/04/2021 - [Astronomynow] - Astronomers spot merging galaxies hosting dual quasars

07/04/2021 - [Caltech] - Seeing quadruple

07/04/2021 - [ESA Science] - 12 rare Einstein crosses discovered with Gaia

29/01/2021 - [Cordis - EU research results] - New findings shed revealing light on the Milky Way’s evolution

12/01/2021 - [CfA] - Astronomers Observe a New Type of Binary Star Long Predicted to Exist

 

2020

29/12/2020 - [SciTechDaily] - Acceleration of the Solar System Measured by the Gaia Space Telescope

03/12/2020 - [La Repubblica] - Nuova mappa delle stelle: ne sono stati censite due miliardi

03/12/2020 - [Space.com] - A 'tsunami' for astrophysics: New Gaia data reveals the best map of our galaxy yet

03/12/2020 - [Sky and Telescope] - Gaia makes most accurate 3D map of the Milky Way yet

03/12/2020 - [CNN] - Gaia space observatory maps nearly 2 billion stars in Milky Way galaxy

03/12/2020 - [BBC] - Gaia 'discovery machine' updates star catalogue

03/12/2020 - [obspm.fr] - Press release by the French contribution in Gaia DPAC (French)

03/12/2020 - [Royal Astronomical Society] - Press release by the Royal Astronomical Society in the UK (English): Gaia: most accurate data ever for nearly two billion stars

03/12/2020 - [Warsaw University] - Press release by University of Warsaw (Polish)

03/12/2020 - [DLR] - Press release by DLR (German) / Our galaxy in 3D: Gaia satellite mission maps the Milky Way

03/12/2020 - [Eötvös Loránd Research Network] - Press release by Eötvös Loránd Research Network (Hungarian)

03/12/2020 - [University of Helsinki] - Press release by University of Helsinki (English)​​​​​​

03/12/2020 - [UK Space Agency] - UK scientists take a step closer to revealing origins of our galaxy

03/12/2020 - [ESA] - Press release of Gaia Early Data Release 3: Gaia's new data takes us to the Milky Way and beyond / Video releases: Orbits of nearby stars around the galaxy / Measuring the acceleration of the Solar System with Gaia / Bridge of stars / Gaia's stellar motion for the next 1.6 million years / Image releases: Gaia's stellar motion for the next 400 thousand years / Gaia's view of the Milky Way's neighbouring galaxies / Gaia's early data release 3 in  numbers / The density of stars from Gaia's early data release 3 - equirectangular projection / The density of stars from Gaia's early data release 3 / The colour of the sky from Gaia's early data release 3 - equirectangular projection / The colour of the sky from Gaia's early data release 

26/11/2020 - [ESA] - Gaia's Milky Way discoveries

24/09/2020 - [Telespazio] - Gaia Mission: A great team work for a great success

21/09/2020 - [ESA] - Five fascinating Gaia revelations about the Milky Way

17/07/2020 - [Penn today] - New stellar stream, born outside the Milky Way, discovered with machine learning

16/07/2020 - [Universe Today] - A stellar stream of stars, stolen from another galaxy

13/07/2020 - [CNN] - New stars found in the Milky Way were born outside of it

01/07/2020 - [ESA Space Safety] - Gaia revolutionises asteroid tracking

30/06/2020 - [ESA Soundcloud] - ESA explores risky asteroids with Astronomer Marco Micheli

25/05/2020 - [ESA Science] - Galactic crash may have triggered solar system formation

04/03/2020 - [Universe Today] - The disk of the Milky Way is warped because it already collided with another galaxy

03/03/2020 - [Times of India] - Gaia suggests Milky Way's warp caused by galactic collision

02/03/2020 - [ESA Science] - Milky Way's warp caused by galactic collision, Gaia suggests

21/01/2020 - [ESA Science] - Global Gaia campaign reveals secrets of stellar pair

07/01/2020 - [BBC] - Vast 'star nursery' region found in our galaxy

07/01/2020 - [Volkskrant] - Astronomen ontdekken reusachtig geboortecentrum van sterren

 

2019

05/12/2019 - [ESA videos] - Gaia's potential in the exoplanet field: Star and planet orbiting their common centre of mass / Detecting exoplanets with astrometry

21/09/2019 - [ESA] - Gaia starts mapping our galaxy's bar

01/09/2019 - [ESA Science and Technology] - Challenges closer to home: Gaia's asteroids

29/08/2019 - [ESA Enabling and Support] - ESA ESTRACK, what are they looking at

28/08/2019 - [ESA] - Gaia untangles the starry strings of the Milky Way / Stellar families in Gaia’s sky, Stellar groups and strings in the Milky Way edge-on view / Stellar groups and strings in the Milky Ways face-on view / Gaia tracing starry strings in the Milky Way

15/08/2019 - [CNN] - This is the most massive star ever destroyed by a supernova

29/07/2019 - [CfA] - A stellar stream in the Milky Way provides evidence of dark substructure

25/09/2019 - [ESA Science] - Astronomers spy Europa blocking distant star – thanks to Gaia / Upcoming stellar occultations by Jupiter’s four largest moons

26/07/2019 - [Spiegel] - Wie die Milchstraße enden wird

25/07/2019 - [ESA] - Astronomers spy Europa blocking distant star - thanks to Gaia

24/07/2019 - [CNN] - The Milky Way gobbled up another galaxy billions of years ago, study says

22/07/2019 - [National Geographic] - Found: the oldest known stars in our galaxy

22/07/2019 - [IAC] - The early days of the Milky Way revealed

17/07/2019 - [Universe Today] - Gaia mission is Mapping Out the Bar at the Center of the Milky Way

17/07/2019 - [Wissenschaft.de] - 3D-Blick auf den Balken der Milchstraße

16/07/2019 - [ESA Science] - Gaia starts mapping our galaxy's bar ​​​​​​​/ Revealing the galactic bar / Revealing the galactic bar

28/06/2019 - [ESA Science] - Gaia's asteroid discoveries / Gaia's first asteroid discoveries / Gaia's asteroid discoveries

21/06/2019 - [Volkskrant] - ‘Archeoloog van de sterren’ Amina Helmi krijgt de Spinozapremie, de hoogste wetenschappelijke eer van Nederland

17/05/2019 - [ESA Science] - Shedding light on white dwarfs - the future of stars like our Sun / The hyper-velocity white dwarf D6-2, The motions of 230,000 white dwarfsGaia white dwarf discoveries

02/05/2019 - [ESO] - Pinpointing Gaia to Map the Milky Way

02/05/2019 - [ESA Science] - Observing Gaia from Earth to improve its star maps / Tracking Gaia with ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST)

29/04/2019 - [ESA] - Gaia's first asteroid discoveries

07/03/2019 - [ESA Science] - Hubble and Gaia accurately weigh the Milky Way

27/02/2019 - [nature.com] - Quirks from Gaia

26/02/2019 - [ESA Science] - Rethinking everything we thought we knew about star clusters

24/02/2019 - [EarthSky] - Astronomers find a nearby river of stars

07/02/2019 - [ESA Science] - Gaia clocks new speeds for Milky Way-Andromeda collision

28/01/2019 - [scientificamerican.com] - New Star Maps Shed Light on Milky Way's Convulsive History

16/01/2019 - [nature.com] - Hidden history of the Milky Way revealed by extensive star maps

09/01/2019 - [nature.com] - Core crystallization and pile-up in the cooling sequence of evolving white dwarfs

09/01/2019 - [ESA Science] - Gaia reveals how Sun-like stars turn solid after their demise

08/01/2019 - [nature.com] - Gaia's living and breathing Galaxy

 

2018

23/12/2018 - [nature.com] - Nature's 10: ten people who mattered this year

21/12/2018 - [Volkskrant] - Wat we hebben geleerd in 2018: De Melkweg zit vol stellaire vluchtelingen

14/11/2018 - [ESA Science] - Extended life for ESA’s science missions

31/10/2018 - [nature.com] - The merger that led to the formation of the Milky Way's inner stellar halo and thick disk

31/10/2018 - [nature.com] - Evidence of ancient Milky Way merger

31/10/2018 - [Volkskrant] - Een staaltje astronomische integratie van de bovenste plank: buitenwijken Melkweg blijken restanten van ander sterrenstelsel

31/10/2018 - [ESA Science] - Galactic hosts: Gaia uncovers major event in the formation of the Milky Way / Gaia-Enceladus stars across the sky / Gaia-Enceladus stars across the sky (2) / ESA Space in Images / Stellar debris of Galactic merger in the Milky Way /  A major event in the formation of the Milky Way / Merger in the early formation stages of our Galaxy

04/10/2018 - [Science.org] - Streams of stars reveal the galaxy's violent history - and perhaps its unseen dark matter

02/10/2018 - [ESA Science] - Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies / Sprinting stars in the Milky Way / ESA Space in Images

25/09/2018 - [BBC Science Focus] - Medium-sized exoplanets may be mostly made of water

25/09/2018 - [ESA Science] - Gaia finds candidates for interstellar ‘Oumuamua’s homePast trajectories of the Sun, ‘Oumuamua and one of its potential home stars

20/09/2018 - [Volkskrant] - ‘Spectaculaire’ ontdekking: het sterrenstelsel trilt nog na van kosmische megaklap

19/09/2018 - [nature.com] - A dynamically young and perturbed Milky Way disc

19/09/2018 - [ESA Science] - Snail shell pattern in the velocity of stars - Gaia data / Snail shell pattern in the velocity of stars

19/09/2018 - [ESA Science] - The Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in Gaia’s all-sky viewESA Space in Images

19/09/2018 - [ESA Science] - Gaia hints at our Galaxy’s turbulent life / Perturbations in the Milky Way

31/08/2018 - [ESA Space in Images] - Flying through asteroids in VR

27/08/2018 - [ESA Space in Images] - Exoplanet mission timeline

20/08/2018 - [ESA Space in Images] - Astrometric measurements to detect exoplanets

20/08/2018 - [ESA Science] - Infant exoplanet weighed by Hipparcos and Gaia

17/08/2018 - [American Scientist] - Gaia reveals the Milky Way

31/07/2018 - [NASA] - New Horizons team prepares for stellar occultation ahead of Ultima Thule flyby

20/07/2018 - [nature.com] - Surprise from Gaia

12/07/2018 - [NASA] - Hubble and Gaia Team Up to Fuel Cosmic Conundrum

09/07/2018 - [CfA] - Polaris, the North Star

26/06/2018 - [Universitats i Recerca] - Interview with Xavier Luri and Carme Jordi: “La missió Gaia representa un salt en tots els aspectes: ara veiem allò que abans només podíem deduir”

25/06/2018 - [Radio interview] - Minia Manteiga interviewed on the Gaia Mission

31/05/2018 - [Tagesspiegel] - Die-Sonde Gaia ermöglicht eine "neue Astronomie": Die Spur der Sterne

18/05/2018 - [ESA Euronews] - ESA Euronews: Gaia’s revolution in astronomy

17/05/2018 - [Spiegel Online] - Reiseführer durch die Galaxis

16/05/2018 - [nasa.gov] - Astronomy picture of the day

14/05/2018 - [ESA Space in Images] - Gaia’s stellar family portrait

01/05/2018 - [ESA Science] - Gaia data release 2: Virtual Reality Resources

30/04/2018 - [ESA Space in Images] - Rotation of the Large Magellanic Cloud (black/white)

28/04/2018 - [CNN] - The Gaia satellite gave us a new star map that is out of this world

27/04/2018 - [nasa.gov] - Astronomy picture of the day

27/04/2018 - [NBCnews] - Vast new star map will transform our ideas about the Milky Way

25/04/2018 - [National Geographic] - How 1.7 billion stars were mapped with dazzling 3-D precision

25/04/2018 - [BBC] - Gaia telescope's 'book of the heavens' takes shape

25/04/2018 - [http://www.tiedetuubi.fi/] - (finnish) - LÄHES 1,7 MILJARDIA TÄHTEÄ: "...JA KAIKKI ALKAA LIIKKUA"

25/04/2018 - [University of Warsaw] - (polish) - Nova mapa Drogi Mlecznej

25/04/2018 - [ladepeche.fr] - (french) - Le satellite toulousain Gaia a recensé 1,7 milliard d'étoiles

25/04/2018 - [Scientific American] - The Milky Way, Revealed as Never Before

25/04/2018 - [Volkskrant.nl] - Gegevens van ruim een miljard sterren liggen 'op straat' dankzij ruimtetelescoop Gaia

25/04/2018 - [AD.nl] - Kunstmaan Gaia opent schatkamer voor astronomen

25/04/2018 - [nature.com] - Billion-star map of Milky Way set to transform astronomy

25/04/2018 - [Der Spiegel] - Neue Karte zeigt 1,7 Milliarden Sterne

25/04/2018 - [sciencemag.org] - European satellite reveals motions of more than 1 billion stars and shape of the Milky Way

25/04/2018 - [La Repubblica] - Il più grande atlanta delle stelle in 3D. Secondo Gaia

25/04/2018 - [nu.nl] - ESA publiceert kaart met data ruim 1,3 miljard sterren

25/04/2018 - [space.com] - This 3D Color Map of 1.7 Billion Stars in the Milky Way Is the Best Ever Made

25/04/2018 - [ESA Space in Videos] - Gaia's second data release

25/04/2018 - [ESA Space in Images] - Cosmic scales covered by Gaia's second data release , Rotation of the Large Magellanic Cloud (colour) , Gaia's sky in colour (extra) , Gaia's Hertzsprung-Russell diagram , Gaia - the Galactic census takes shape , Gaia's new map of star density , Gaia's globular clusters and dwarf galaxies (with orbits) , Draco and Ursa Minor dwarf galaxies , Four globular clusters , Gaia's view of more than 14,000 asteroids , Rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud , Barnard 68 , Small Magellanic Cloud , Double cluster in Perseus , Andromeda galaxy , Orion A Nebula , Triangulum galaxy , Large Magellanic Cloud

25/04/2018 - [ESA Science] - Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy - and beyond , Gaia's sky in colour , Gaia, the galactic census takes shape , Comparison between Gaia's first and second data releases , Gaia's first asteroid survey , Cosmic scales covered by Gaia's second data release , Gaia Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram , Globular clusters and dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way , Parallax and proper motion on the sky

25/04/2018 - [ESA] - Press Release of Gaia Data Release 2: Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy and beyond

24/04/2018 - [Scientific American] - Stellar Effort: Chart of the Milky Way Includes More Than 1 Billion Stars

05/04/2018 - [ESA Science] - How many stars to expect in Gaia's second data release

03/04/2018 - [ESA Space in Images] - The cat in Orion - or was it a fox?

03/04/2018 - [ESA Science] - Gaia's view of dark interstellar clouds

21/03/2018 - [ESA Science] - Gaia status update: safe mode and recovery

06/03/2018 - [Space.com] - Neptune's Moon Triton and Star 'Flash' Earth During an Occultation

27/02/2018 - [ESA Science] - Chasing a stellar flash with assistance from Gaia

 

2017

27/11/2017 - [Hubble Space Telescope] - Hubble and Gaia team up to measure 3D stellar motion with record-breaking precision

27/11/2017 - [ESA Science] - Stellar motions in nearby galaxy hint at underlying dark matter

15/11/2017 - [ESA Science] - How do you find a star cluster? Easy, simply count the stars!

04/10/2017 - [Media INAF] - Giovedì notte Tritone occulta una stella

03/10/2017 - [ESA Science] - Gaia data help prepare for a rare celestial alignment of Neptune's largest moon

16/09/2017 - [Space.com] - 3D Stellar Map: Neighboring Stars Could Disturb Solar System in Distant Future

01/09/2017 - [Guardian] - Armageddon: scientists calculate how stars can nudge comets to strike Earth

31/08/2017 - [MPIA] - Heavy stellar traffic, deflected comets, and a closer look at the triggers of cosmic disaster

31/08/2017 - [ESA Science] - Close encounters of the stellar kind

31/08/2017 - [ESA] - Close encounters of the stellar kind

17/08/2017 - [Media-INAF] - United Colors of Gaia

16/08/2017 - [ODBMS Industry Watch] - Gaia Mission maps 1 Billion stars. Interview with Uwe Lammers

16/08/2017 - [ESA Science] - Sneak peek of Gaia's sky in colour

31/07/2017 - [Harvard-Smitsonian Center for Astrophysics] - Astronomers Discover “Heavy Metal” Supernova Rocking Out

31/07/2017 - [skymania.com] - Gaia spacecraft catches super luminous supernova early in boost for astronomers

07/07/2017 - [Universe Today] - Gaia finds six stars zipping out of the Milky Way

26/06/2017 - [Leiden University] - Artificial brain helps Gaia satellite catch speeding stars

26/06/2017 - [ESA Science] - Artificial brain helps Gaia catch speeding stars

15/06/2017 - [Futurism.com] - An Ambitious Spacecraft Is Set to Advance Humanity Further Than We Dreamed

09/06/2017 - [ESA Science] - The future of the Orion constellation

02/06/2017 - [Gaia in the UK] - UK Gaia Teams wins two Arthur C. Clarke Awards

20/04/2017 - [ESA Science] - Gaia’s snapshot of another galaxy

18/04/2017 - [University of Barcelona] - La misión Gaia y la historia de nuestra galaxia

12/04/2017 - [ESA Science] - Two million stars on the move

06/04/2017 - [Gaiaverse] - Gender on Gaia DPAC

24/01/2017 - [ESA Science] - Gaia turns its eyes to asteroid hunting

14/01/2017 - [Gaia in the UK] - Gaia featured on the Naked Scientists

 

2016

14/12/2016 - [Nature.com] - Gaia charts one billion stars 

27/10/2016 - [ESA Science] - Gaia spies on two temporarily magnified stars 

28/09/2016 - [Cambridge TV] - Professor Gerry Gilmore - Gaia Satellite

26/09/2016 - [APOD] - Gaia: Here comes the Sun

23/09/2016 - [BBC] - Gaia clocks speedy cosmic expansion

22/09/2016 - [ESA Science] - From Hipparchus to Hipparcos: a signification of stellar catalogues

16/09/2016 - [BBC Science Focus] - Biggest ever sky map shows 1,000,000,000 stars

15/09/2016 - [Australian Geographic] - Gaia satellite to build the most detailed 3D map of the Milky Way ever made

15/09/2016 - [ABC.net.au] - Gaia space probe: European Space Agency satellite puts more than a billion stars on the map

14/09/2026 - [nature.com] - Gaia charts one billion stars

14/09/2016 - [Spiegel] - Satellit kartiert eine Milliarde Sterne

14/09/2016 - [Scientific American] - New Billion-Star Map Reveals Secrets of the Milky Way

14/09/2016 - [Sky & Telescope] - Gaia Mission Maps 1 Billion stars

14/09/2016 - [Nature News] - Detailed map shows Milky Way is bigger than we thought

14/09/2016 - [New Scientist] - Gaia’s map of 1 billion stars is the clearest view of our galaxy

14/09/2016 - [National Geographic] - New Milky Way Map Is a Spectacular Billion-Star Atlas

14/09/2016 - [The Guardian] - Astronomers unveil most detailed map of the Milky Way to date

14/09/2016 - [ABC.net.au] - Milky Way 3D map to be revealed by Gaia satellite 1,000 times more complete than previous models

14/09/2016 - [BBC] - Gaia space telescope plots a billion stars

14/09/2016 - [BBC] - Gaia: The space telescope remapping our night sky

14/09/2016 - [Washington Post] - Gaia space telescope reveals the most complete 3-D map of our galaxy ever

14/09/2016 - [Scientific American] - Upcoming Galaxy Map Could Radically Transform How We See the Milky Way

14/09/2016 - [CNES] - Le satellite Gaia livre la position d'un milliard d'étoiles

14/09/2016 - [Volkskrant] - Nieuwe atlas brengt miljarden sterren Melkwegstelsel ongekend nauwkeurig in kaart

14/09/2016 - [Deutsche Welle] - Space Debut data from Europe's Gaia mission shows Milky Way bigger than we thought

14/09/2016 - [Le Monde] - Plus d’un milliard d’étoiles de la Voie lactée localisées

14/09/2016 - [ESA Science] - Press release of Gaia Data Release 1: Gaia's billion-star map hints at treasures to come

09/09/2016 - [Nature.com] - Milky Way mapper: 6 ways the Gaia spacecraft will change astronomy

18/07/2016 - [Spektrum.de] - Erste Wissenschaft mit Gaia-Daten

22/01/2016 - [New Scientist] - Galaxy-mapping Gaia space telescope gets an eye test from Pluto

 

2015

19/12/2015 - [CNES.fr] - Tchouri vue par Gaia

18/12/2015 - [Deutschlandfunk] - Zensus der Milchstraße

11/11/2015 - [Kennislink.nl] - Sterren tellen in de Melkweg

21/11/2015 - [The Guardian] - Why mapping the galaxy will be child's play

01/11/2015 - [Sternstunde Online] - Sternstunde - Das Astronomiemagazin (Gaia at minute 20:50)

25/08/2015 - [University of Cambridge] - One year and 272 billion measurements later, Gaia team celebrates first anniversary of observations

11/08/2015 - [Sterne und Weltraum] - Gaia funktioniert – ein erster Blick in die Daten

30/06/2015 - [El Pais] - Gaia alerta de asteroides desconocidos

21/01/2015 - [ScienceBlogs] - Der Fluch der Präzision: Die Raumsonde GAIA und die Mikrometeoroide

19/01/2015 - [Sterne und Weltraum] - Weiter Ärger mit den Plejaden

 

2013

20/12/2013 - [BBC] - Gaia spacecraft: A billion pixels for a billion stars

19/12/2013 - [BBC] - Gaia 'billion-star surveyor' lifts off

19/12/2013 - [CNN] - Gaia space telescope’s billion pixel camera to map Milky Way

19/12/2013 - [CNES] - Gaia, des étoiles plein les yeux

19/12/2013 - [BBC] - Gaia satellite to map Milky Way launched into space

21/08/2013 - [BBC] - Europe's Gaia satellite to map a billion stars

21/08/2013 - [BBC] - Gaia: The 'impossible space mission' ready to fly

 

 

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