Gaia in the UK

Taking the Galactic Census

Gaia images

Gaia's Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

Gaia DR2 H-R 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

Gaia DR2 cosmic scales
Cosmic scales covered by Gaia's second data release.
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Gaia's density, colour and interstellar extinction maps

Gaia's sky DR2 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

Gaia Data Release 2 contents
Diagram summarising the contents of the Gaia Data Release 2.
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Orbits of dwarf galaxies and globular clusters

Orbits of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies
Orbits of 75 globular clusters and 9 dwarf galaxies.
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The first Gaia sky map in colour

Gaia DR2 colour sky map
The first Gaia sky map in colour.
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Stellar density map

Stellar density map - Milky Way
Sky map based on housekeeping data from ESA’s Gaia satellite (2015).
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