Science highlights of Gaia DR3

     

    Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

     

    Selection of stories related to Gaia's Data Release 3 published on ESA websites

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

    23/07/2024: How binary stars change their stellar dance with age

    25/06/2024: Dynamical masses across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

    20/06/2024: Scientists spot hidden companions of bright stars

    06/06/2024: Gaia: Milky Way's last major collision was surprisingly recent

    28/05/2024: Did Gaia find its first neutron star?

    22/04/2024: Sailing among the stars - Gaia's role in discovering distant worlds

    22/04/2024: Gaia's contribution to discovering distant worlds

    02/04/2024: The Gaia Cataclysmic Variable hook

    18/03/2024: Gaia maps largest ever collection of quasars in space and time

    19/12/2023: Gaia's decade of discoveries: unravelling the intricacies of our galaxy

    19/12/2023: 10 Science topics to celebrate Gaia's 10 years in space

    31/10/2023: Gaia observes cosmic clock inside a heavenly jewel

    27/09/2023: Does the Milky Way contain less dark matter than previously thought?

    22/09/2023: Mass-luminosity relation from Gaia's binary stars

    13/06/2023: Gaia's multi-dimensional Milky Way

    23/05/2023: Has Gaia found missing link in black hole evolution?

    18/05/2023: Mapping the Milky Way

    13/04/2023: Wobbling star found in Gaia-Hipparcos data confirmed to host exoplanet

    05/04/2023: Dual quasar found to be hosted by an ongoing galaxy merger at redshift 2.17

    30/03/2023: Gaia discovers a new family of black holes

    31/01/2023: Gaia reaches to the clouds – 3D kinematics of the LMC

    25/01/2023: Meet your neighbours: CNS5 - the fifth catalogue of nearby stars

    04/11/2022: Gaia's first black hole discovery: Gaia BH1

    20/10/2022: Shadow hunters capture Didymos asteroid eclipsing stars

    26/10/2022: Are Newton and Einstein in error after all?

    12/10/2022: 30,000 near-Earth asteroids discovered and rising

    06/10/2022: Mapping the interstellar medium using the Gaia RVS spectra

    11/08/2022 Gaia reveals the past and future of the Sun

    13/06/2022 Gaia Data Release 3 - in-depth stories

    13/06/2022 Gaia data release 3 press events

    13/06/2022: Image and video releases for Gaia Data Release 3

    13/06/2022: Press releases for Gaia Data Release 3

    10/06/2022: Gaia observes the Milky Way

    10/06/2022: Watch live: first impressions of Gaia data release 3

    10/06/2022: MK classification of stars from BP/RP spectrophotometry across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

    09/06/2022: BP/RP low-resolution spectroscopy across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

    31/05/2022: Media invitation: new details about our Milky Way in the third Gaia data release

    31/05/2022: Gaia data release 3 media kit

    27/05/2022: Cepheids and their radial velocity curves

    23/05/2022: The Galaxy in your preferred colours

    19/05/2022: GaiaXPy 1.0.0 released, a tool for Gaia's BP/RP spectra users

    13/05/2022: Gaia - ESA's billion star surveyor

    25/02/2022: Not only distances: what Gaia DR3 RR Lyrae stars will tell us about our Galaxy and beyond

    31/01/2022: Astrometric orbit of the exoplanet-host star HD81040

    23/12/2021: Signal-to-Noise ratio for Gaia DR3 BP/RP mean spectra

    09/07/2021: How Gaia unveils what stars are made of

    27/04/2021: HIP 70674 Orbital solution resulting from Gaia DR3 processing

    30/03/2021: First transiting exoplanet by Gaia

    22/12/2020: QSO emission lines in low-resolution BP/RP spectra

    12/08/2020: First calibrated XP spectra

     

    Science highlights of Gaia EDR3

     

    Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

     

    Selection of stories related to Gaia's Early Data Release 3

     

    26/09/2022: Gaia on the hunt for dual quasars and gravitational lenses

    23/09/2022: Gaia's observation of relativistic deflection of light close to Jupiter

    07/06/2022: Jupiter's moon Europa to obscure distant star

    11/05/2022: Systemic proper motions of 73 galaxies in the Local group

    17/02/2022: Gaia reveals a new member of the Milky Way family

    12/01/2022: The Local Bubble - source of our nearby stars

    05/01/2022: A Milky-Way relic of the formation of the Universe

    22/12/2021: The 7 October 2021 stellar occultation by the Neptunian system

    01/12/2021: Observation of a long-predicted new type of binary star

    24/11/2021: Gaia reveals that most Milky Way companion galaxies are newcomers to our corner of space

    24/09/2021: Astrometric microlensing effect in the Gaia16aye event

    22/09/2021: the power of the third dimension - the discovery of a gigantic cavity in space

    26/03/2021: Apophis' Yarkovsky acceleration improved through stellar occultation

    03/12/2020: Gaia Early Data Release 3 - press releases

    03/12/2020: Gaia Early Data Release 3 - release stories for the general public 

    03/12/2020: Gaia Early Data Release 3 - release stories for the scientific community

    29/10/2020: Gaia EDR3 passbands

    09/10/2018: 3rd Gaia DPAC Consortium Meeting

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