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2024-10-20 New release of Gaia Sky

On 17 October 2024, Gaia Sky released a new version. The software is open-source and can be used to visualise Gaia data and can be found from the University of Heidelberg website.

Gaia mission status

Technology testing concluded and spacecraft passivated
3827 days of science operations concluded
141,038 GB of science data gathered

267,336,261,480 transits observed

Several data sets were released
Gaia Data Release 4 in preparation

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2-6 March 2026
Astro Big Data School
Ghent, Belgium
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Galactic bars, bulges and disks
Lipari Island, Italy
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