Science highlights of Gaia DR2

07/04/2021: 12 rare einstein crosses discovered with Gaia

15/10/2020: Star clusters are only the tip of the iceberg

04/09/2020: Discovery of a year long superoutburst in a white dwarf binary

22/07/2020: Gaia and the size of the Solar System

16/07/2020: Testing CDM and geometry-driven Milky Way rotation Curve Models

01/07/2020: Gaia revolutionises asteroid tracking

30/06/2020: Gaia's impact on Solar system science

25/05/2020: Galactic crash may have triggered Solar System formation

14/05/2020: Machine-learning techniques reveal hundreds of open clusters in Gaia data

20/03/2020: The chemical trace of Galactic stellar populations as seen by Gaia

02/03/2020: Milky Way's warp caused by Galactic collision, Gaia suggests

21/01/2020: Global Gaia campaign reveals secrets of stellar pair

09/01/2020: Discovery of a new star cluster: Price-Whelan1

08/01/2020: Largest ever seen gaseous structure in our Galaxy

20/12/2019: The lost stars of the Hyades

06/12/2019: Do we see a dark-matter like effect in globular clusters?

12/11/2019: Hypervelocity star ejected from a supermassive black hole

28/08/2019: Gaia untangles the starry strings of the Milky Way

25/07/2019: Astronomers spy Europa blocking a distant star - thanks to Gaia

16/07/2019: Gaia starts mapping our Galaxy's bar

24/05/2019: Evidence of new magnetic transitions in late-type stars

17/05/2019: Shedding light on white dwarfs - the future of stars like our Sun

03/05/2019: Atmospheric dynamics of AGB stars revealed by Gaia

02/05/2019: Observing Gaia from Earth to improve its star maps

• Tracking Gaia with ESO's VLT survey telescope (VST) - annotated
• Tracking Gaia with ESO's VLT survey telescope (VST)

29/04/2019: Gaia's first asteroid discoveries

25/04/2019: Geographic contributions to DPAC

22/04/2019: omega Centauri's lost stars

18/04/2019: 53rd ESLAB symposium "the Gaia universe"

07/03/2019: Hubble and Gaia accurately weigh the Milky Way

26/02/2019: Rethinking everything we thought we knew about star clusters

18/02/2019: A river of stars

07/02/2019: Gaia clocks new speeds for Milky Way-Andromeda collision

• Stellar motions in the Andromeda galaxy
• Future motions of the Milky Way, Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies

04/02/2019: Video featuring: "Science at ESA"

09/01/2019: Gaia reveals how Sun-like stars turn solid after their demise

• White dwarf cooling sequence and crystallisation
• Artist impression of crystallisation in white dwarf

26/11/2018: New Very Low Mass dwarfs in Gaia data

19/11/2018: Hypervelocity White Dwarfs in Gaia data

15/11/2018: Hunting evolved carbon stars with Gaia RP spectra

13/11/2018: Gaia catches the movement of the tiny galaxies surrounding the Milky Way

06/11/2018: Secrets of the ‘Wild Duck’ cluster revealed

31/10/2018: Galactic hosts: Gaia uncovers major event in the formation of the Milky Way

• Gaia-Enceladus stars across the sky
• Gaia-Enceladus stars across the sky (2)
• ESA Space in Images
• Stellar debris of Galactic merger in the Milky Way
• A major event in the formation of the Milky Way
• Merger in the early formation stages of our Galaxy

02/10/2018: Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies

• Sprinting stars in the Milky Way”
• ESA Space in Images: Sprinting stars in the Milky Way

30/09/2018: A new panoramic sky map of the Milky Way’s Stellar Streams

25/09/2018: Gaia finds candidates for interstellar ‘Oumuamua’s home

• Past trajectories of the Sun, ‘Oumuamua and one of its potential home stars

25/09/2018: Plausible home stars for interstellar object 'Oumuamua

19/09/2018: Gaia hints at our Galaxy’s turbulent life

• Snail shell pattern in the velocity of stars - Gaia data / Snail shell pattern in the velocity of stars
• The Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in Gaia’s all-sky view
• ESA Space in Images: The Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in Gaia's all-sky view
• Perturbations in the Milky Way

11/09/2018: Impressions from the IAU General Assembly

31/08/2018: Flying through asteroids in VR

20/08/2018: Infant exoplanet weighed by Hipparcos and Gaia

20/08/2018: Star density map

30/06/2018: Asteroids in Gaia Data

14/06/2018: Mapping and visualising Gaia DR2

18/05/2018: ESA Euronews: Gaia’s revolution in astronomy

14/05/2018: Gaia’s stellar family portrait

25/04/2018: Gaia Data Release 2 Virtual Reality resources

25/04/2018: In-depth stories on Gaia DR2

• The Gaia Sky in Colour
• Gaia DR2 extinction map
• Core processing for Gaia
• Gaia Hertzsprung-Russell Diagrams
• Gaia DR2 - A Guide to Scientists
• CU6: the road to DR2...
• Solar System Objects in Gaia DR2
• The Gaia Celestial Reference Frame
• The motion of variable stars in the HR diagram
• Working towards an accessible catalogue
• Dwarf Galaxies and Globular Clusters
• Providing Gaia Tools for DPAC
• Gaia Sky
• Colour information for the Gaia sky
• Mapping the Milky Way disc kinematics
• Already impacting stellar occultations
• Overview page for Gaia Data Release 2

25/04/2018: Zooming into regions on the sky

• Draco and Ursa Minor dwarf galaxies
• Four globular clusters
• Orion A nebula
• Triangulum galaxy
• Andromeda galaxy
• Double cluster in Perseus
• Barnard 68
• Rho Ophiuchi Molecular Cloud - star density
• Rho Ophiuchi Molecular Cloud

25/04/2018: Gaia's view on the Magellanic Clouds

• Small Magellanic Cloud
• Small Magellanic Cloud - star density
• Large Magellanic Cloud
• Large Magellanic Cloud - star density
• Rotation of the Large Magellanic Cloud
• Rotation of the Large Magellanic Cloud (2)
• Rotation of the Large Magellanic Cloud (video)

25/04/2018: Gaia's Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams

• compare to: Hipparcos Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
• Gaia's Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams for different populations of stars
• The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (video)
• White dwarfs in Gaia's Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
• Variable stars in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (video)

25/04/2018: Gaia creates richest map of our Galaxy and beyond

• Cosmic scales covered by Gaia's second data release
• Gaia's sky in colour
• Gaia's sky in colour - equirectangular projection (high resolution image)
• Gaia's new map of star density
• 360 degrees Gaia first sky map in colour (video)
• The Galactic sensus takes shape
• Gaia's globular clusters and dwarf galaxies
• Gaia's globular clusters and dwarf galaxies - with orbits
• Globular clusters and dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way
• Gaia's view of more than 14000 asteroids
• Gaia's first asteroid survey (video)
• Gaia's all sky map of radial velocities
• Gaia's view of dust in the Milky Way
• Parallaxes in Gaia's sky
• Parallax and proper motion on the sky (video)
• Parallax and proper motion on the sky - 360 degree view (video)
• The Hyades Cluster (video)
• Comparison between Gaia's first and second data releases (video)
• Fly between Gaia stars (video)
• The motions of 96 million stars (video)

25/04/2018: Press conference of Gaia Data Release 2

05/04/2018: Waiting for Gaia's second data release

16/03/2018: Gaia DR2 Passbands

27/02/2018: Triton observation campaign

• Chasing a stellar flash
• Improved estimate of the ground trace of Triton occultation
• Observtions of Triton occultation
• Central flash during Triton occultation

18/12/2017: Gaia sky scan

29/11/2017: Selected asteroids detected by Gaia between August 2014 and May 2016

05/10/2017: Updated prediction to the Triton occultation campaign

03/10/2017: Occultation of a star by Triton

03/10/2017: Ground trace of Triton occultation

16/08/2017: Preliminary view of the Gaia sky in colour

• Gaia's density map (companion to the preliminary colour sky map)

07/07/2017: Chariklo stellar occultation follow-up

31/01/2017: Successful second DPAC Consortium Meeting