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Gaia’s first sky map

ESA’s Gaia mission has published its first catalogue of a billion stars

A taster of Gaia’s sky

Media briefing replay: Gaia scientists present stellar catalogues obtained during the first year of ESA’s star surveyor

Star mapper

Space Science Image of the Week: Explore the sky with this new visualisation using data from ESA’s Hipparcos mission

High-speed Gaia

From cleanroom to liftoff, watch an incredible time-lapse movie of Gaia's final preparations on Earth before shooting for the stars

Liftoff replay

Watch a replay of ESA's billion-star surveyor Gaia launching into space at 09:12 GMT/10:12 CET this morning

Inside Gaia’s camera

How Gaia’s billion-pixel camera will study a billion stars

Gaia back in time

Step back in time and explore the Gaia mission’s historical roots with our new series of articles on the history of astrometry, the ancient science of charting the sky

Gaia launch campaign

Latest spacecraft pictures from Kourou

Gaia blog

Launch campaign and commissioning

Guide to our Galaxy

Take a virtual journey from the centre to the outskirts of the Milky Way

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Gaia’s billion-star map hints at treasures to come14 September 2016

Gaia’s billion-star map hints at treasures to come14 September 2016 The first catalogue of more than a billion stars from ESA’s Gaia satellite was published today – the largest all-sky survey of celestial objects to date.

Watch Gaia first data release media briefing12 September 2016

Watch Gaia first data release media briefing12 September 2016 Replay of the media briefing on the first data release from ESA’s Gaia mission on 14 September.

Call for media: First data release from ESA's Gaia mission 01 September 2016

Call for media: First data release from ESA's Gaia mission 01 September 2016 Media representatives are invited to a briefing on the first data release of ESA’s Gaia mission, an astrometry mission to map the stars of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

Celebrity comet spotted among Gaia’s stars03 November 2015

Celebrity comet spotted among Gaia’s stars03 November 2015 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.

Gaia's first year of scientific observations25 August 2015

Gaia's first year of scientific observations25 August 2015 Last Friday, 21 August, ESA’s billion-star surveyor, Gaia, completed its first year of science observations in its main survey mode.

Counting stars with Gaia03 July 2015

Counting stars with Gaia03 July 2015 This image, based on housekeeping data from ESA’s Gaia satellite, is no ordinary depiction of the heavens. While the image portrays the outline of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, and of its neighbouring Magellanic Clouds, it was obtained in a rather unusua...

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