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Gaia making a 3D-map of a Billion stars, new space observatory
GravityWaves
post Apr 1 2006, 07:38 PM
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Have you guys heard about this one ?

Gaia observatory
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"The satellite will determine the position, colour and true motion of one thousand million stars and over 100,000 objects in our Solar System. Gaia will also identify as many as 10,000 planets around other stars. "
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"Gaia will measure distance (from parallax) out to ~100,000 parsecs; for stars ~10,000 pc away, with a Vmag of ~<15, Gaia will measure their distances accurate to ~10-20%."

You can also read about it here
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/06mapping/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_probe

or check the European space site
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- GravityWaves   Gaia making a 3D-map of a Billion stars   Apr 1 2006, 07:38 PM
- - SteveM   Gaia's Data Release 1, based on observations ...   Sep 14 2016, 01:03 AM
- - antipode   Wow, Look at the LMC in the hi res png file at ht...   Sep 15 2016, 11:50 AM
|- - SteveM   QUOTE (antipode @ Sep 15 2016, 06:50 AM) ...   Sep 16 2016, 05:30 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   One of the more entertaining ESA products to come ...   Jun 14 2017, 11:10 PM
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- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Some early results from the new data release are b...   Jun 22 2018, 06:54 PM
- - bobik   Gaia Data Release 3 will be published on Monday 13...   Feb 8 2022, 06:18 AM
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- - bobik   Gaia Focused Product Release Take a look here to ...   Oct 10 2023, 09:48 AM

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