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Wouldn't it be wonderful if also photometric information from Gaia could help find these baby star systems? Meet a new #GaiaDR4 data product: the residual image. Obtained from stacking many individual images and removing the point spread function of the central source:
Gaia Data Release 4 is expected December '26 and #GaiaDPAC is hard at work processing, validating & documenting the data sets. While #GaiaDR3 brought ~60 different data products, #GaiaDR4 will bring ~130 of them. Lots of new data products! Updated page 👉cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr4
Gaia dances the night away! 💃A farewell to a fading Gaia... But no worries, you can still follow Gaia's location in the sky using some ephemeris services! GIF credits: Liverpool telescope / J. Marchant. Full story on Gaia Cosmos: cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow_2…
Wondering what Gaia's retirement orbit is and where to find it with respect to Earth and the Sun? Check out this video👇🏽 as published here: esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…youtu.be/8RznHsG12t0
Stars in our galaxy make a stadium wave, Gaia finds 🙌
Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles 🌀
But @ESAGaia has just revealed that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from its centre 👉 esa.int/Science_Explor…
📣 Euclid releases first batch of survey data, including a preview of its very own deep fields!
With just one scan, #ESAEuclid has already spotted 26 million galaxies 👉 esa.int/Science_Explor…
Let's explore the treasure trove that our #DarkUniverse detective has uncovered 🧵
Gaia was a faint object in the sky during its science observation phase but could potentially reach a 14 magnitude in the coming days. More details: cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/obser… Amateur astronomers & ground observatories are invited to observe Gaia's final moments before passivation.
While Gaia stopped taking science observations, it is hard at work to perform a set of technology tests: cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/techn…. As part of these tests, Gaia's angle with respect to the Sun will change, and the Gaia spacecraft's brightness is gradually increasing at the moment.
✨Attention #GaiaData Users. The @ESAesdc Gaia Archive takes a first step towards Gaia DR4 soon on 10 December! To prepare for bigger volumes and the larger product diversity, some breaking changes to the way things work will be needed. ✨More details: cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow_2…
Join the @esa Science Directorate ! 🌌
We're hiring an Archive Scientist at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) near Madrid, Spain on a 3-year contract to work with the @ESASolarOrbiter, @ESA_Cluster and other Heliophysics data archives.
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