Gaia14aae, discovered by the Gaia Photometric Science Alerts, was featured in an article by Robin McKie, "Why mapping the galaxy will be child’s play", published in the Guardian on 21 November 2015 .
The contents of the first Gaia Intermediate Data Release have been announced today (16 November 2015) at the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) plenary meeting.
A local cosmic celebrity was recently pictured among the multitude of stars and Solar System bodies surveyed by ESA’s Gaia satellite: Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, currently accompanied by another ESA spacecraft, Rosetta.