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This week saw the release of a treasure trove of data from ESA's Gaia mission, a space-based observatory that is mapping out the Milky Way in three dimensions.
New data from the Gaia space telescope are being called a cosmic "goldmine," including never-seen-before stars, 380 gravity-lensed quasars, and the orbits of over 150,000 asteroids.