University of Florida astronomers have discovered that a third of the planets around the most common stars in the galaxy could be in a goldilocks orbit close
Unlike a traditional telescope, Gaia scans the entire sky repeatedly rather than just viewing one fascinating distant object at a time. Learn more about the data that it has gathered in this article.
Here are four scientific questions about our galaxy, the Milky Way, that astronomers hope to solve with the June 13 data dump from Europe s Gaia mission.