But its legacy lives on. Rendering of the Gaia telescope in space.Credit...ESA/ATG medialab; ESO, via S. Brunier Supported by By Katrina Miller From ancient star streams to the innards of white ...

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March 27 (UPI) --The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering. A control team at the ESA's European Space Operations Center ...

"We will never forget Gaia, and Gaia will never forget us." Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its final orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more than a decade.

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The Gaia Observatory from the European Space Agency (ESA) has now been powered down and sent into a “retirement orbit” around the sun — but data from the mission will continue to be released ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) shut down its space observatory mission, Gaia on Thursday (March 27). Launched into space over a decade ago, Gaia has been instrumental in charting the Milky Way galaxy ...

The Gaia space telescope, launched in 2013, has been deactivated and placed in a "retirement orbit" around the sun after mapping nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way.

An artist’s impression of ESA’s Gaia satellite observing the Milky Way. Credit: European Space Agency / CC BY-SA 3.0 The European Space Agency (ESA) officially shut down its Gaia spacecraft mission, a ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission. On March 27, mission controllers at ESA’s European ...

Gaia is now silent, but its star maps and data discoveries are shaping the future of space exploration. Its legacy lives on through ongoing research, future missions, and heartfelt farewells from its ...