Gaia images
Gaia's Hertzsprung-Russell diagram![]() Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of more than four million stars within five thousand light-years from the Sun using information about their brightness, colour and distance from the second data release from ESA's Gaia satellite.
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Gaia Data Release 2 cosmic scales![]() Cosmic scales covered by Gaia's second data release.
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Gaia's density, colour and interstellar extinction maps![]() The maps showing the total brightness and colour of stars, the total density of stars and the interstellar dust that fills the Galaxy.
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Gaia Data Release 2 in numbers![]() Diagram summarising the contents of the Gaia Data Release 2.
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Orbits of dwarf galaxies and globular clusters![]() Orbits of 75 globular clusters and 9 dwarf galaxies.
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The first Gaia sky map in colour![]() The first Gaia sky map in colour.
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Stellar density map![]() Sky map based on housekeeping data from ESA’s Gaia satellite (2015).
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