Legendary Gaia Spacecraft Maps Entire Galaxy, Promptly Retires
Its work complete, and with the spacecraft running out of fuel, Gaia is now slated for retirement. The distant parts of the Milky Way remain educated guesses based on incomplete data, Payne-Wardenaar added. But the spacecrafts story will live on after its observational work is done. An artist’s impression of the Milky Way, seen edge-on.Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar Gaia has produced 500 terabytes of data so farand thats just from 5....