The ESA's Gaia mission has discovered over half a million new stars in a crowded region of space known as Omega Centauri.
The European Space Agency has released the newest data from its Gaia Observatory, detailing over half a million newly discovered stars and over 150,000 asteroids. This new data is part of the mission’s third data release, the first of which dropped back in June of 2022. These new stars are located within Omega Centauri and are just a small handful of the more than 1.8 million Gaia has documented so far in its most recent observations.
There are at least nine crowded regions in the area, and the observatory can now see more than ten times the number of stars in the cluster's core. The new data not only patches holes in the observatory’s mapping, though. It also gives us new data to work with in understanding star formation and development. The new data captured by Gaia’s discovery of these new stars will allow us to study how the stars are distributed and how they’re moving.
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