Now Reading: Make like a spacecraft and fly through Gaia’s 3D map of stellar nurseries
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Make like a spacecraft and fly through Gaia’s 3D map of stellar nurseries
When the ESA launched the Gaia spacecraft in 2013, it didn’t generate the same fanfare as the launch of other missions like the JWST, or first light from telescopes like the Vera Rubin Observatory. That’s largely because Gaia doesn’t capture gorgeous images of celestial objects like other telescopes. Instead, Gaia was an astrometry mission.
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