Images

Spacecraft	Payload	Service Module	Operations
Launch	Science	Miscallaneous	Commissioning and Early Routine Phase

Additonal Gaia images are available on the ESA Space in Images website as well as on the ESA Gaia website for the general public.

The ESA Sci-Tech Multimedia Gallery offers images in the following categories:

• Launch site
• Construction and testing
• Artist's impressions
• Focal plane array & CCDs
• Mirrors
• Payload module
• Service module

​​​​​Also on the ESA corporate website on Gaia, other visuals can be found:

• Gaia images on esa.int/gaia​​​​​​​
• Multimedia gallery on Gaia

Here on this website, home of the Gaia scientific community, more images are available for each of the data releases. It is expected that in time, they will also make it into this media gallery. For now, please find these images from the following pages (with subpages):

• Gaia Data Release 1
• Gaia Data Release 2
• Gaia Early Data Release 3
• Gaia Data Release 3
• Gaia Focused Product Release

And some visuals were published around other Gaia milestones

• Gaia 10 years in space
• Gaia's Milky Way
• Gaia Follow-up observations
• Gaia spacecraft passivation

and often visuals are published along with stories discussing the use of Gaia data, the image of the week stories:

• Gaia stories

There is also a series of Gaia-related pictures available from the ESA Photolibrary for professionals.

The highest resolution visuals available are:

• The colour of the sky from Gaia's Early Data Release 3
• The density of stars from Gaia's Data Release 1, which was the first Gaia sky map
• The density of stars from Gaia's Early Data Release 3
• The density of stars from Gaia's Early Data Release 3 equirectangular projection

Some other attractive visuals higlighting the Gaia catalogues:

• The Gaia multi-dimensional Milky Way map
• The sky map of stellar motion from Gaia's Early Data Release 3
• Gaia's Milky Way (face-on, edge-on, and as animation, and as infogrpahic)