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May 2, 2024

Gaia detects the most massive black hole of stellar origin in the Milky Way

The discovery of Gaia-BH3 is just one example of what Gaia data will provide us in the coming years.

Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy – and beyond

ESA's Gaia mission has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars

April 26, 2018

Gaia DR2 presentation at ILA Berlin

A media briefing is being organised by ESA at the ILA Berlin Air and Space Show in Germany, on Wednesday 25 April 2018

April 20, 2018

Gaia Data Release 2 on April 25th

The new catalogue will include the astrometry for more than 1,3 billion of sources

January 25, 2018

A Gaia stamp

Release of a German Gaia stamp

January 16, 2018

Gaia mission extended until 2020

The Science Programme Committee (SPC) has decided to extend the Gaia operations beyond the nominal 5 years until the end of 2020

December 20, 2017

Interview with Lennart Lindegren

Interview with Lennart Lindegren at "The science of Gaia and future challenges" meeting in Lund, Sweden.

September 18, 2017

Extra-galactic Observations with Gaia

Observation of extra-galactic objects with Gaia

April 21, 2017

Two million stars on the move

A video that reveals the changing face of our Galaxy!

April 18, 2017

Gender on Gaia DPAC

Women represent the 24% of the people working in the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium.

April 6, 2017