# GAIA spacecraft delivers new insights on stars

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**Created:** [May 9, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/gaia-spacecraft-delivers-new-insights-on-stars/75272 "2018-05-09T16:22:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Whitehound](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/whitehound/32/59604_2.png) [@Whitehound](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Whitehound)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/gaia-spacecraft-delivers-new-insights-on-stars/75272/1 "2018-05-09T16:22:14Z")

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For those interested in astronomy, there is a new spacecraft out and it’s starting to deliver new and interesting data on the stars in our galaxy.

> **[The latest star map from the Gaia spacecraft plots 1.7 billion stars](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/star-map-gaia-spacecraft-milky-way)**
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> The Gaia spacecraft’s latest data release brings the number of stars with precisely measured motions up from 2 million to more than 1.3 billion.

> **[Gaia delivers a trove of data revealing secrets of the Milky Way](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gaia-delivers-trove-data-revealing-secrets-milky-way)**
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> Astronomers are already using Gaia’s new information to estimate the galaxy’s mass, the diameter of exoplanets and more.

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**Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/gaia-spacecraft-delivers-new-insights-on-stars/75272/2 "2018-08-07T16:22:16Z")

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