The European space telescope is providing a treasure trove of astronomical data.
The latest data release from the European Space Agency’s Gaia observatory just dropped, and it’s a massive one: the spacecraft has identified half a million stars in a nearby cluster, nearly 400 gravitational lenses, and the orbits of some 156,000-odd asteroids. This outpouring of science is part of the observatory’s third data release, the first part of which came out in June 2022.
The Gaia release is so massive that five research papers comprise its data: one paper describes the half-million newly spotted stars, a second details the variability of the stars; a third unpacks the thousands of asteroids and their orbits; a fourth scrutinizes two mapped interstellar bands composed of gas and dust; and a fifth takes a long look at the hundreds of possible gravitational lenses spotted by the observatory.
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