New trove of data from Europe's Gaia mission will lead to best Milky Way map ever - Space.com

This time, astronomers will see all the way to the Milky Way's edge.

The European Space Agency's Gaia mission will release new data on June 13, and scientists can't wait. The coming data dump will contain information about nearly two billion of the brightest objects … [+7984 chars]

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