According to a study by the University of Helsinki, the European Gaia space mission has produced an unprecedented amount of new, improved, and detailed data for almost two billion objects in the Milky Way galaxy and the surrounding cosmos
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The third release of the results of the European Space Agency Gaia mission presents the largest collection of astrophysical data on the Milky Way For the first time, it includes data on low-resolution and radial velocity spectroscopy Data on binary stars surpass the scientific work carried out during the last two centuries The new Gaia data catalogue includes information on the population of asteroids of the Solar System which is key for studying the origins of this planetary system
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The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) has helped Gaia achieve millimagnitude (mmag) precision in photometry, according to a study led by researchers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and Beijing Normal University (BNU).
Their study was published in
The Astrophysical Journal.
If you look at the sky on a clear, starry night, you may notice that Aldebran is relatively red and Rigel is blue. Why? The answer stems from their intrinsic physical properties. Precisely measuring magnitudes and colors helps to explain such phenomena.
The ESA Gaia satellite is well known for its remarkable capacity for astrometric observation. It delivers the most precise photometric data ever, with much higher quality than ground-based telescopes.