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2023-09-22 Gaia Focused Product release update

22 September 2023On Wednesday 20 September the webpage listing all planned events for the Gaia Focused Product Release was published. Interested to join one of the events, or watch some of the recordings afterwards? The page will be updated with the direct links to the livestreams available (once known) and will help you find your way to the different...

2023-09-22 Mass-Luminosity relation from Gaia's binary stars

22 September 2023A bit more than a year ago, on 13 June 2022, the third Gaia Data Release (Gaia DR3) was published. It included for the first time an exciting new catalogue of Non-Single Star solutions. This catalogue counts around 440,000 sources with an orbital solution, either astrometric, spectroscopic, or eclipsing. This data set can be useful in many...

2023-09-13 Gaia DPAC CU8 webinars

13 September 2023Gaia's Data Processing and Analysis Consortium consists of 9 coordination units, each with their own responsibilities in the preparation of a Gaia data release. Gaia's coordination unit 8 is responsible for the production of the astrophysical parameters. A webinar series was held early 2023 to explain the different processing modules and their...

Gaia Newsletter #26

28 August 2023Gaia Newsletter Issue 26 is out now!

2023-08-28 ESA research fellowships in space science

28 August 2023ESA'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 Research Fellowships in Space Science specifically offer the opportunity to contribute to ESA's endeavour to explore...

2023-08-28 Gaia DPAC Solar System Objects team honoured by the "Asteroid Comet Meteorites" Science Organization Committee

28 August 2023On 21 June 2023, the Asteroid Comet Meteorites SOC honoured the collaborators of the Solar System Objects (SSO) team of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium. They did so with asteroid nominations, naming 4 asteroids after members of the Gaia DPAC SSO team. (30264) Galluccio (32607) Portell (33437) Ordenovic (35623)...

2023-08-28 Gaia Symposium at EAS

28 August 2023On 10 and 11 July 2023, the symposium "Gaia: The (TWO) Billion Star Galaxy Census: The Magic of Gaia DR3" was held. A wealth of research was presented at this symposium making use of Gaia's latest data releases. More details were presented on the expected contents of Gaia's Focused Product Release as well, expected on 10 October 2023. The...

2023-08-24 Gaia mission news

24 August 2023Gaia continues to operate nominally toward its 10th launch anniversary on 19 December this year. The current estimate of the remaining lifetime is about 1.5 years. In the first quarter of 2025 Gaia is expected to run out of cold gas, the gas used to maintain its highly precise scanning attitude. Data processing performed by Gaia DPAC is...