2024-12-20 Self-registration portlet is not working properly

20 December 2024

Following the migration of our web portal on Monday 16 December, some of our portlets are not yet fully functioning. The self-registration portlet, used for registering an account with our Gaia Archive, is currently having issues, not allowing all steps for the registration to be taken. Our apologies for the inconvenience. Our IT teams have... read more

Gaia Bulletin #01

10 December 2024 Gaia Bulletin #01 is out now! read more

Gaia Newsletter #33

10 December 2024 Gaia Newsletter #33 is out now. The Gaia newsletter is being discontinued. Please be referred to the Gaia Bulletin now. read more

2024-12-03 The Gaia ESA Archive: a first step towards Gaia DR4

3 December 2024 At first sight, the Gaia ESA Archive may look static these days, but in fact, nothing could be further from the truth. The team of expert engineers and scientists at the ESAC Science Data Centre (ESDC) supporting the Archive is busy with various background preparations necessary to serve the many products that will be published in Gaia Data... read more

2024-12-03 New updates to the Gaia Community Tools

3 December 2024 Within the astronomical community, many very useful tools are available for use with Gaia data. A non-exhaustive list is given on our Gaia Community Tools webpage: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/community-tools. Several new updates were published recently to the page. read more

2024-11-29 New members of the Gaia Science Team

29 November 2024 A new group picture has been posted following the arrival of new members in the Gaia Science Team. Rodolfo Smiljanic from Warsaw, Poland and Johannes Sahlmann from ESAC (new Gaia Project Scientist since this year) now appear in the picture as well. We thank Timo Prusti for his contribution to the Gaia mission as project scientist. He was active... read more

Pre-release of Gaia DR4 astrometric parameters for a star to be occulted by Uranus

4 November 2024 On 12 November 2024 the star Gaia DR3 56716009513720320 will be occulted by the Solar System planet Uranus, which offers a rare opportunity to study the ring system and atmosphere of the planet. To allow for the best-possible planning for the ground-based occultation observing campaigns, we make the preliminary Gaia Data Release 4 (Gaia DR4)... read more

2024-10-20 New release of Gaia Sky

20 October 2024 ​​​​​​​On 17 October 2024, Gaia Sky released a new version. The software is open-source and can be used to visualise Gaia data and can be found from the University of Heidelberg website. read more

2024-10-03 Gaia's end of observations coming up

3 October 2024 The Gaia spacecraft relies on a cold gas propellant to keep it spinning and scanning the sky. The amount of remaining cold gas decreases by about a dozen grams per day and is reaching its end in early 2025. The Gaia science observations will therefore end on 15 January 2025, meaning that no more nominal science data will be acquired by Gaia... read more

2024-09-11 Opening for a Gaia science operations scientist

11 September 2024 Today a job opening has been posted for a Gaia science operations scientist on the ESA Careers website. The deadline for applications is 2 October. As a Science Operations Scientist, you will be initially assigned to the Gaia mission, under the direct responsibility of the Mission Manager in the Mission Management and Science Operations Division... read more

2024-08-27 ESA Science Research Fellowships open for submissions

27 August 2024 ESA's postdoctoral Research Fellowship programme offers early-career scientists and engineers the possibility to carry out research in a variety of disciplines related to Space Science, Space Applications or Space Technology. The call for applications is now open, with a deadline of 16 September. More information on the Research Fellowship... read more

2024-08-20 Gaia discovers interesting duo belonging to the Milky Way halo: an ultracool subdwarf with a white dwarf companion

20 August 2024 While studying stars located nearby and within 100 pc of the Sun, researchers found an interesting duo which belongs in the Milky Way halo: a combination of a white dwarf and an L subdwarf, forming a wide binary system. The first of its kind ever found that belongs to the halo. And it’s been there for a while, the system is thought to be about... read more