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    Gaia is a space observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA), launched in 2013 and expected to operate until 2025. The spacecraft is designed for astrometry:...
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  • while the Gaia-CRF is an inertial barycentric reference frame defined by optically measured positions of extragalactic sources by the Gaia satellite and whose...
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    brighter is over twice as far as B. Parallax measurements from the Gaia satellite show the two stars, HD 238107 and HD 238108, are at distances of 311 ± 1...
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    measurements for stellar distances of stars up to 1000 pc away. ESA's Gaia satellite, which launched on 19 December 2013, is intended to measure one billion...
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    Gaia Sky is an open-source astronomy visualisation desktop and VR program with versions for Windows, Linux and macOS. It is created and developed by Toni...
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    variable stars also analyzed during the Hipparcos mission. In 2013, the Gaia satellite was launched and improved the accuracy of Hipparcos. The precision was...
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    Gaia 1 is an open cluster of stars discovered in 2017 by astronomers using data from the Gaia Space Observatory. It is a high-mass and bright cluster...
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    cooling sequence of more than 15,000 white dwarfs observed with the Gaia satellite. Low-mass helium white dwarfs (mass < 0.20 M☉), often referred to as...
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    2021, a multidisciplinary professional-amateur collaboration combined Gaia satellite and ground-based radar measurements with amateur stellar occultation...
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    to be included in the normal observation runs of the Gaia satellite and there is no published Gaia parallax for it. At present the star is drifting further...
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  • MAggie Nebula Image of Maggie as seen by the Gaia satellite. Observation data Distance 55,000 ly Physical characteristics Radius 3,900 ly See also: Lists...
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    1000–2500 km/s. In 2018, three such stars were discovered using data from the Gaia satellite. As of 2014, twenty HVS were known. HVS 1 – (SDSS J090744.99+024506...
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    The Gaia Sausage or Gaia Enceladus is the remains of a dwarf galaxy (the Sausage Galaxy, or Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage, or Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus) that merged...
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    Based upon an annual parallax shift of 7.7237 mas as seen from the Gaia satellite, it is located 420 light years from the Sun. The star is moving closer...
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    δ = −20.2° ± 3.6°.: 7  Optical observations using only 33 months of Gaia satellite data of 1.6 million extragalactic sources indicated an acceleration...
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  • Bella Gaia is a live music art and show produced by Kenji Williams and other New York artists. The show layers full-dome projections of hyperspectral...
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    follow-up mission, Gaia, was launched in 2013. The word "Hipparcos" is an acronym for HIgh Precision PARallax COllecting Satellite and also a reference...
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  • faintly visible to the naked eye. Based on parallax measurements from the Gaia satellite, it is estimated to be 480 light years distant. 28 LMi is approaching...
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  • barely visible to the naked eye. Based on parallax measurements from the Gaia satellite, the object is estimated to be 292 light years distant. It appears to...
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    006″ was obtained. The present day result, obtained with data from the Gaia satellite, gives a parallax of 117.17 mas, which corresponds to a physical separation...
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  • very similar) with only ~1 M☉, if at the distance determined by the Gaia satellite. An additional spectroscopic analysis utilised multi-epoch spectroscopy...
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    eye under ideal conditions. Based on parallax measurements from the Gaia satellite, it is estimated to be 396 light years away from the Solar System. However...
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    absolute magnitude of the Sun is 4.83 in the V band (visual), 4.68 in the Gaia satellite's G band (green) and 5.48 in the B band (blue). In the case of a planet...
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    Gaia is a 2018 inflatable installation artwork by Luke Jerram. It is a spherical replica of the Earth, with a diameter of 7 metres (23 ft), and named after...
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    Based upon an annual parallax shift of 18.9796 mas as seen from the Gaia satellite, Delta Piscis Austrini is located 172 ± 2 light-years from the Sun....
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    Polaris of about 433 light-years (133 parsecs), while the successor mission Gaia gives a distance of about 448 light-years (137 parsecs). Calculations by...
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    apparent magnitude of 5.77. Based on parallax measurements from the Gaia satellite, the object is estimated to be 612 light years away. Currently, it is...
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    apparent magnitude of 5.47. Based on parallax measurements from the Gaia satellite, the system is estimated to be 328 light years away. However, it is...
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    eye under ideal conditions. Based on parallax measurements from the Gaia satellite, the system is estimated to be 274 light years away from the Solar System...
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    upon an annual parallax shift of 8.0981 ± 0.3582 mas as seen from the GAIA satellite, the system is located roughly 400 light years from the Sun. This is...
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