{"id":775801,"date":"2023-12-19T03:56:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T08:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=775801"},"modified":"2023-12-19T03:56:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T08:56:54","slug":"gaias-10th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=775801","title":{"rendered":"Gaia&#039;s 10th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2023\/12\/gaia_s_10th_anniversary\/25359013-1-eng-GB\/Gaia_s_10th_anniversary_card_full.png\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n\tImage:<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, on 19 December 2013, ESA\u2019s billion star-mapping satellite Gaia launched. Since then, Gaia has been scanning the sky and gathering an enormous amount of data on the positions and motions of 1.8 billion stars, enabling numerous discoveries about the history of our galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>Gaia\u2019s catalogue is ever-growing containing data on stars and other cosmic objects such as asteroids in our Solar System, exoplanets, binary stars, and other galaxies. The Gaia collaboration, consisting of about 450 people in 25 countries, prepares the data for scientific use. This has resulted in publications of over 10 000 scientific papers and 128 PhD theses.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about Gaia\u2019s first ten years of science here.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2023\/12\/Gaia_s_10th_anniversary?rand=771654\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Ten years ago, on 19 December 2013, ESA\u2019s billion star-mapping satellite Gaia launched. Since then, Gaia has been scanning the sky and gathering an enormous amount of data on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775801","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\/775801","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=775801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=775801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=775801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=775801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}