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2022-05-20 Gaia DR3 events page goes live!

21 May 2022Many events are organised to introduce the Gaia Data Release 3 to the community. The Gaia DR3 events page also contains details on the central ESA/Gaia/DPAC press event which will be streamed on ESA WebTV. Next to a central ESA/Gaia/DPAC briefing at 10:00 CEST on 13 June, there will be events in Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Finland, France,...

2022-05-20 Gaia newsletter #20 is available now.

20 May 2022Find the latest Gaia Newsletter in your inbox now.

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

19 May 2022The Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) will offer access for the first time to mean low-resolution spectra obtained from a combination of a number of epoch Blue and Red Photometer (BP and RP) observations covering the optical to near-infrared wavelength range [330, 1050] nm. These will be available for about 220 million sources, mostly brighter than...

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

11 May 2022To gain insight in the interactions between our Milky Way and its neighbouring galaxies, knowledge of their position and motion is essential. Using astrometry and photometry from Gaia's Early Data Release 3, a team of scientists from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in Spain, led by G. Battaglia, have determined the systemic proper...

2022-05-04 Gaia Newsletter #19 is out

4 May 2022The latest newsletter from Gaia provides you with lots of details on the upcoming data release 3.

2022-05-02 Update to the Gaia DR3 contents summary page

2 May 2022On 28 March an update to the Gaia DR3 contents page was published, giving lots more details on the different data products to be expected in Gaia's full data release 3. Find below the overview table taken from this page. To help prepare for the data release, also find the draft data model now published on this page. At last, a warning that the...

2022-04-28 Publication of the Gaia CRF3 cross match table

28 April 2022A downloadable table providing the location of each of the Gaia CRF3 sources that define the Gaia Celestial Reference Frame has been published today on the Gaia DR3 auxiliary data page. The Gaia Collaboration paper "Gaia Early Data Release 3: The celestial reference frame (Gaia-CRF3) can be found here.