Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 18:26
Europe`s billion-star hunting telescope has successfully entered its operational orbit to gather data for the most accurate 3D map yet of our Milky Way galaxy, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
Last Updated: Friday, December 20, 2013, 09:38
European Space Agency on Thursday launched its Gaia mission which will provide a three-dimensional picture of the Milky Way galaxy, measuring appropriate positions and distances of more than a billion stars.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 12:12
European Space Agency on Thursday will launch its Gaia mission which will provide a three-dimensional picture of our galaxy, measuring appropriate positions and distances of more than a billion stars.
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 27, 2013, 13:37
Europe`s billion-star surveyor has been launched into space where it will create a highly accurate 3D map of our galaxy.
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 13:53
European Space Agency`s billion-star surveyor Gaia, which will map the stars with unprecedented precision, is going to be launched from Europe`s spaceport in Kourou on November 20.
Last Updated: Monday, October 21, 2013, 19:36
The powerful Gaia space telescope designed to create a 3D map of stars in the Milky Way will also detect killer asteroids on a potentially fatal collision course with our planet when it is launched next month.
Last Updated: Monday, October 21, 2013, 12:21
A 800-million-pound early warning system to find asteroids that are on a potential collision course with the Earth is set to be launched next month by European Space Agency.
Last Updated: Friday, June 28, 2013, 17:21
ESA`s billion-star surveyor Gaia is ready to depart for its launch site in French Guiana, as it sets to embark on a five-year mission to map the stars with unprecedented precision.
Last Updated: Thursday, February 14, 2013, 10:40
Ultra-cool dwarfs - defined as stars with a temperature below 2500 K - are the most ancient objects in our galaxy.
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 15:01
Researchers have discovered new evidence that may back the famous Gaia hypothesis of Earth as a living organism.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 28, 2012, 19:19
A revolutionary scientific theory of life has now challenged the conventional wisdom and claims that earth is alive.
Last Updated: Thursday, July 7, 2011, 13:18
In order to detect distant stars up to a million times fainter than the eye can see, Gaia will carry 106 charge coupled devices (CCDs), advanced versions of chips within standard digital cameras.
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