Highlights of Gaia DR3 - Gaia
Science highlights of Gaia DR3
Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Selection of stories related to Gaia's Data Release 3
04/11/2022: Gaia's first black hole discovery: Gaia BH1
26/10/2022: Are Newton and Einstein in error after all?
06/10/2022: Mapping the interstellar medium using the Gaia RVS spectra
11/08/2022 Gaia reveals the past and future of the Sun
13/06/2022 Gaia Data Release 3 - in-depth stories
- What are the stars made of?
- Do they move away?
- What is in between the stars?
- How did dpac produce the data?
- Is it a double star?
- How big, warm, old, ... are they?
- How do they blink?
- How bright are the stars?
- Who created the data?
- Is it a quasar?
- Do they go boom?
- How far away are they?
- Is it a solar system object?
- What colour do they have?
- Did something move in front?
- Is it a galaxy?
- Can I use Gaia data with other observatories?
- Where do they go?
- Where are the stars?
- Where is the data?
13/06/2022 Gaia data release 3 press events
13/06/2022: Image and video releases for Gaia Data Release 3
- Sonification: Gaia sees starquakes
- Animation: the chemistry of our Milky Way
- Animation: the asymmetric Milky Way in motion
- Animation: Gaia data release 3: exploring our multi-dimensional Milky Way
- Animation: Asteroid populations in Gaia data release 3
- Image: Gaia's chemical map of the Milky Way
- Image: Gaia's Milky Way in motion
- Image: Gaia: Exploring the multi-dimensional Milky Way (portrait version)
- Image: Gaia: Exploring the multi-dimensional Milky Way (landscape version)
- Image: You are here
13/06/2022: Press releases for Gaia Data Release 3
10/06/2022: Gaia observes the Milky Way
10/06/2022: Watch live: first impressions of Gaia data release 3
09/06/2022: BP/RP low-resolution spectroscopy across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
31/05/2022: Media invitation: new details about our Milky Way in the third Gaia data release
31/05/2022: Gaia data release 3 media kit
- Media kit in English
- Media kit in French
- Media kit in German
- Media kit in Italian
- Media kit in Spanish
- Media kit in Dutch
27/05/2022: Cepheids and their radial velocity curves
23/05/2022: The Galaxy in your preferred colours
19/05/2022: GaiaXPy 1.0.0 released, a tool for Gaia's BP/RP spectra users
13/05/2022: Gaia - ESA's billion star surveyor
31/01/2022: Astrometric orbit of the exoplanet-host star HD81040
23/12/2021: Signal-to-Noise ratio for Gaia DR3 BP/RP mean spectra
09/07/2021: How Gaia unveils what stars are made of
27/04/2021: HIP 70674 Orbital solution resulting from Gaia DR3 processing
30/03/2021: First transiting exoplanet by Gaia
22/12/2020: QSO emission lines in low-resolution BP/RP spectra
12/08/2020: First calibrated XP spectra
Science highlights of Gaia EDR3
Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Selection of stories related to Gaia's Early Data Release 3
26/09/2022: Gaia on the hunt for dual quasars and gravitational lenses
23/09/2022: Gaia's observation of relativistic deflection of light close to Jupiter
07/06/2022: Jupiter's moon Europa to obscure distant star
11/05/2022: Systemic proper motions of 73 galaxies in the Local group
17/02/2022: Gaia reveals a new member of the Milky Way family
12/01/2022: The Local Bubble - source of our nearby stars
05/01/2022: A Milky-Way relic of the formation of the Universe
22/12/2021: The 7 October 2021 stellar occultation by the Neptunian system
01/12/2021: Observation of a long-predicted new type of binary star
24/11/2021: Gaia reveals that most Milky Way companion galaxies are newcomers to our corner of space
24/09/2021: Astrometric microlensing effect in the Gaia16aye event
22/09/2021: the power of the third dimension - the discovery of a gigantic cavity in space
26/03/2021: Apophis' Yarkovsky acceleration improved through stellar occultation
03/12/2020: Gaia Early Data Release 3 - press releases
- ESA's press release: "Gaia's new data takes us to the Milky Way's anticentre and beyond" (English)
- Press release by the French contribution in Gaia DPAC (French)
- Press release by the Royal Astronomical Society in the UK (English)
- Press release by University of Warsaw (Polish)
- Press release by DLR (German / English)
- Press release by Eötvös Loránd Research Network (Hungarian)
- Press release by University of Helsinki (English)
03/12/2020: Gaia Early Data Release 3 - release stories for the general public
- Gaia's new data takes us to the Milky Way and beyond
- Video release: Orbits of nearby stars around the galaxy
- Video release: Measuring the acceleration of the Solar System with Gaia
- Video release: Bridge of stars
- Video release: Gaia's stellar motion for the next 1.6 million years
- Image release: Gaia's stellar motion for the next 400 thousand years
- Image release: Gaia's view of the Milky Way's neighbouring galaxies
- Image release: Gaia's early data release 3 in numbers
- Image release: The density of stars from Gaia's early data release 3 - equirectangular projection
- Image release: The density of stars from Gaia's early data release 3
- Image release: The colour of the sky from Gaia's early data release 3 - equirectangular projection
- Image release: The colour of the sky from Gaia's early data release 3
03/12/2020: Gaia Early Data Release 3 - release stories for the scientific community
- Following the journey of stars across the sky
- Gaia DPAC
- The Galactic anticentre
- CU5 - a human story
- The acceleration of the solar system with respect to the distant universe
- A dive into the Magellanic Clouds
- CU3 - a human story
- Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars
- Gaia EDR3 versus Gaia DR2
- Questions and Answers
29/10/2020: Gaia EDR3 passbands
09/10/2018: 3rd Gaia DPAC Consortium Meeting