{"id":614090,"date":"2019-05-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=614090"},"modified":"2019-05-02T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T13:00:00","slug":"observing-gaia-from-earth-to-improve-its-star-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=614090","title":{"rendered":"Observing Gaia from Earth to improve its star maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pinpointing_Gaia_from_Earth_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nWhile ESA\u2019s Gaia mission has been surveying more than one billion stars from space, astronomers have been regularly monitoring the satellite\u2019s position in the sky with telescopes across the world, including the European Southern Observatory in Chile, to further refine Gaia\u2019s orbit and ultimately improve the accuracy of its stellar census.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Gaia\/Observing_Gaia_from_Earth_to_improve_its_star_maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Observing Gaia from Earth to improve its star maps<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While ESA\u2019s Gaia mission has been surveying more than one billion stars from space, astronomers have been regularly monitoring the satellite\u2019s position in the sky with telescopes across the world,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":614091,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/614091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}