{"id":635160,"date":"2019-10-22T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=635160"},"modified":"2019-10-22T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T08:00:00","slug":"gaia-astronomical-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=635160","title":{"rendered":"Gaia astronomical revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GAIA_astronomical_revolution_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Launched in December 2013, the Gaia mission is revolutionising our understanding of the Milky Way. The space telescope is mapping our galaxy in unprecedented detail \u2013 measuring the position, movement and distance of stars.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting in Groningen in the Netherlands, scientists have been discussing the challenge of processing and visualising Gaia data.<\/p>\n<p>Latest science results from the mission, also discussed in this A and B-roll, include a new understanding of how stars cluster together and the fact that today\u2019s Milky Way was formed from a merger of galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>More details on these science results:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Gaia\/Gaia_untangles_the_starry_strings_of_the_Milky_Way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Gaia untangles the starry strings of the Milky Way<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Gaia\/Galactic_ghosts_Gaia_uncovers_major_event_in_the_formation_of_the_Milky_Way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Gaia uncovers major event in the formation of the Milky Way<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2019\/10\/Gaia_astronomical_revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Gaia astronomical revolution<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launched in December 2013, the Gaia mission is revolutionising our understanding of the Milky Way. The space telescope is mapping our galaxy in unprecedented detail \u2013 measuring the position, movement&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":635161,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635160","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=635160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/635161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}