Milky Way Gaia Mapping Will Release New Data On Monday. See How You Can Watch It Live.

ONE media update (opens in a new tab) will take place on Monday, June 13, from 4 p.m. EDT (0800 GMT). Gaia mission experts will share highlights from the new data list, which includes information on nearly 2 billion celestial objects, mostly stars, but also planets and asteroids in the solar system and galaxies outside the Galaxy. The media will be informed broadcast on ESA Web TV (opens in a new tab). Started in 2013, The mission of Gaia is to create the most accurate and complete 3D map of our galaxy, the Galaxy. The data collected by the Gaia spacecraft helped astronomers better understand the exact locations of huge numbers of stars, their distances from Earth, and the speed at which they travel. As objects in the universe follow the rules of physics, astronomers have been able to use the data to model stellar orbits in the distant past of the Galaxy and learn what happened in the early years of the galaxy. The announcement of the data of June 13 is set out to complete this research as it contains new, previously unavailable information. This will be Gaia’s third proof of data, following data sets released in 2016 and 2018 and a subset of the third data set in 2020. Data to be released on 13 June were collected between July 2014 and May 2017. The new data set will include the largest collection of astrophysical data for stars in our galaxy, including information on the masses, temperatures, and ages of nearly half a billion stars, as well as detailed chemical compositions of approximately 2 million stars. The list will also include the largest search of binary stellar systems in our Galaxy and the largest set of asteroid chemical composition data in the solar system. In addition, Gaia studied in detail the galaxy’s largest galactic neighbor, Andromeda Galaxyand conducted the first all-sky space search for quasars, extremely bright objects in the hearts of some galaxies. The media briefing will feature several studies that will be published on June 13, taking advantage of Gaia’s recent observations. These documents highlight the great potential of Gaia’s new data, ESA said in a statement (opens in a new tab). Follow Samantha Mathewson @ Sam_Ashley13. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.