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New Gaia star catalogue reveals surprising...
The third Gaia catalogue—Data Release 3 (DR3)—eagerly awaited by the scientific community is here at last after its official release at 10:00 a.m. on 13 June.
News SciencesJune 13, 2022 -
Is the nearest star cluster to the Sun being...
Data from ESA’s Gaia star mapping satellite have revealed tantalising evidence that the nearest star cluster to the Sun is being disrupted by the gravitational influence of a...
News SciencesMarch 24, 2021 -
Milky Way’s warp caused by galactic collision,...
Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped. Data from ESA’s star-mapping satellite Gaia suggest the distortion might be caused by an ongoing...
News SciencesMarch 2, 2020 -
Gaia’s asteroid discoveries
Animated view of more than 14 000 asteroids in our Solar System from the catalogue in the second data release of ESA’s Gaia satellite, published in 2018.
News SciencesJuly 17, 2019 -
Gaia discovers 3 new asteroids
In December 2018, ESA's Gaia satellite detected three unknown asteroids, authentified by Paris and Côte d'Azur Observatories.
News SciencesMay 9, 2019 -
Gaia unveils ghost galaxy
The Gaia mission has uncovered a major event in the formation of our Milky Way galaxy, now thought to be the result of a merger with a smaller galaxy called Gaia-Enceladus. “This...
News SciencesNovember 16, 2018 -
Gaia creates richest star map of our galaxy - and...
ESA’s Gaia mission has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars and revealing previously unseen details of...
News SciencesMay 23, 2018 -
Triton’s atmosphere in the starlight
A campaign led by astrophysicist Bruno Sicardy used a very rare alignment between the Earth, the largest moon of Neptune and a star to analyse the atmosphere of Triton. It is a...
News SciencesMarch 27, 2018 -
A living fossil left over from the early day of...
Astronomers have discovered possible rare fossil relics of the early Milky Way with chemical anomalies never-before-seen in our Galaxy
News SciencesOctober 4, 2017 -
Jean-Yves Le Gall: “In 2015, CNES will be making...
Monday 5 January, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall delivered his New Year wishes to members of the French and international press in the Salle de l’Espace at Paris Les Halles....
News Ariane, Observation, Sciences, Telecommunications, Defence, Institutional affairsDecember 11, 2014 -
Soyuz completes sixth successful launch from the...
Thursday 19 December at 06:12 local time (10:12 CET), Soyuz lifted off from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre and 42 minutes later its Fregat upper stage successfully...
News SciencesDecember 19, 2013 -
GAIA brings CNES into the age of Big Data
CNES is well used to processing large amounts of data, but for the GAIA mission it was time to turn to Big Data technologies.
News SciencesDecember 11, 2013 -
Final rehearsal for GAIA teams
From 2014, Europe's GAIA satellite will gather billions of items of observational data on stars and other celestial objects in our galaxy. But are the data processing centres...
News Sciences InstitutionalSeptember 12, 2013