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An improved hot star map
The European Space Agency’s Gaia Mission has revolutionized astronomy in many ways. As just one example, the Gaia Mission has provided the first accurate survey of stars in the galactic plane out to about 5 kpc.
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Flying through the nearby stars
Astronomer Richard Smart led a team a few years back to create the Gaia Catalog of Nearby Stars , a carefully analyzed star sample within 100 parsecs (325 light-years).
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Where is the Gaia data?
The European Space Agency’s Gaia Mission has provided distance estimates, magnitude, colour and other data for almost 2 billion stars, making it possible to map out the local galaxy in detail for the first time.
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MRI Scans of the Milky Way
The European Space Agency’s Gaia Mission has surveyed the 3D positions of almost 2 billion stars, creating a point cloud that looks more like a sand storm in the Sahara desert than a traditional star map.
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