Zhang and Green turned to data from ESA's Gaia mission, which was a 10.5-year-effort to obtain extremely accurate measurements of the positions, motions and additional properties of more than a ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy just constructed a detailed, three-dimensional map of the cosmic dust in our galaxy.