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Gaia Newsletter #30

24 November 2023Gaia Newsletter Issue 30 is out now!

2023-11-24 Science Advisory Membership - Call for expressions of interest

24 November 2023ESA has published a call for expressions of interest to become a member of the "Astronomy Working Group", the "Solar System and Exploration Working Group" and the "Space Science Advisory Committee". Through this call, the ESA Director of Science invites scientists affiliated with institutions in the ESA Member States to express their interest in...

2023-11-16 Traineeship positions available in the Gaia mission

16 November 2023ESA's 2024 trainee positions have been published now, with two of them in the Gaia mission. The first one is at ESTEC in the Netherlands with the topic: "A Gaia view of the constellations across time" which aims to explore the evolution of the constellations, which is not visually susceptible over the lifetime of humans and hence not easy to...

2023-11-07 Issues with ESA email infrastructure - resend emails please

6 November 2023The email traffic passing through our ESA email infrastructure was heavily affected in the period between Sunday 5 November 00:01 CET and Monday 6 November 19:30 CET. If you send an email to an ESA person, to our Gaia Helpdesk, or to any of our Gaia mailing lists with an address ending with @cosmos.esa.int or @sciops.esa.int, then please be...

Gaia Newsletter #29

31 October 2023Gaia Newsletter Issue 29 is out now!

2023-10-31 Gaia scanning law published for the full operational mission period

31 October 2023The Gaia scanning law pointings for the data collection period underlying Gaia (E)DR3 are available from the Gaia ESA Archive in a table named "gaiadr3.commanded_scan_law". Here we provide an additional and complementary data set, namely the commanded scanning law pointings over the full mission interval (from 2014-07-25 10:31:26 TCB to...

2023-10-31 Gaia Project Scientist Vacancy notice

31 October 2023At the European Space Agency, there is an opening for the position Gaia project scientist. The vacancy notice can be found here from the ESA jobs website. Deadline for the application is 6 November. The location for this position would be either ESAC (Madrid, Spain) or ESTEC (Noordwijk, The Netherlands). Full details regarding the profile can...

2023-10-31 Gaia observes cosmic clock inside a heavenly jewel

31 October 2023Since its launch in 2013 Gaia has repeatedly observed the central stars of Planetary Nebulae (abbreviated by PNe). The name ´Planetary Nebula’ is not related to planets, but arose in the 18th century because of the visual similarity between some round nebulae visible in the sky and the planets Uranus and Neptune as observed in small optical...