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2025-10-03 New release of Gaia Sky

Gaia Sky version 3.7.0 has been released on 1 October. Gaia Sky is an open source 3D universe visualization platform which can support a billion of objects. A perfect tool for making visualisations for the billion star surveyor, Gaia! Find more information on our tools page and the Gaia Sky 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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Upcoming Events 

7-11 September 2026
Gaia DPAC Consortium meeting
Geneva, Switzerland
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2 December 2026
Gaia Data Release 4
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