February 8, 2025
Gaia Mission Discovers Half a Million New Stars and 150,000 Asteroids

The latest data release from the European Space Agency’s Gaia observatory just dropped, and it’s a massive one: the spacecraft has identified half a million stars in a nearby cluster, nearly 400 gravitational lenses, and the orbits of some 156,000-odd asteroids. This outpouring of science is part of the observatory’s third data release…
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