Gaia satellite and amateur astronomers spot one in a billion star
The Gaia satellite has discovered a unique binary system where one star is 'eating' the other, but neither star has any hydrogen, the most common element in the Universe.
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Stellar density map
Gaia team released stellar density map, showing the outline of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, and of its neighbouring Magellanic Clouds.
Gaia at the Cambridge Science Festival
Visit our stand at the Institute of Astronomy Open Day 2015.
First anniversary of Gaia's launch
Today (19 December 2014) is the first anniversary of Gaia's launch. To mark this occassion ESA asked six members of the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) to share their memories of the launch and the commissioning.
MSSL outreach award for Gaia scientist
We are pleased to report that one of our colleagues, Dr George Seabroke, won this year’s MSSL Elizabeth Puchnarewicz Award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Outreach.
Gaia14abz: the second Gaia supernova
The Asiago Transient Classification Program reported the spectroscopic classification of Supernova Gaia14abz as Type-Ia SN.
SPRAT confirms: Gaia14aat is a dwarf nova
A group of astronomers working at the Liverpool John Moores University used the SPRAT spectrograph installed on the Liverpool Telescope to confirm that one of the Gaia alerts (listed on Gaia Photometric Science Alerts: Validation Phase page), Gaia14aat, is a dwarf nova.
ATel #6593: Gaia Alerts classified at the William Herschel Telescope
Authors of ATel #6593 released today (19 Oct 2014; 14:48 UT) report spectroscopic confirmation and classifications for Gaia Photometric Science Alerts published on this website.
The first batch of Gaia photometric alerts released
We have just released our first batch of alerts. You can find more information, and the candidates on Gaia Photometric Science Alerts: Validation Phase page.
Radial Velocity Spectrometer data processing - first results
ESA publishes the first results provided by the spectroscopic processing of Gaia-RVS data at CNES-DPCC.
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