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Gaia, Europe’s Galactic Cartographer, Is Gone But Not Forgotten

This observatory has probably been the most transformative astronomy project of the 21st century, but there’s a good chance you’ve…

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Gaia telescope retires: Scientists bid farewell to ‘the discovery machine of the decade’ that mapped 2 billion Milky Way stars

On March 27, scientists bid farewell to the Gaia telescope, bringing to a close its groundbreaking 11-year mission of mapping…

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Gaia Spacecraft Stops Data Collection for Milky Way Map

[CLIP: Theme music] Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You’ve probably heard of space telescopes like…

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