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2024-12-03 New updates to the Gaia Community Tools

Within the astronomical community, many very useful tools are available for use with Gaia data. A non-exhaustive list is given on our Gaia Community Tools webpage. Several new updates were published recently to the page.

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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9-13 November 2025
ADASS XXXV Astronomical Data Analysis Software and System
Goerlitz, Germany
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