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Andrei-Cătălin
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i do astro at uni cote d'azur | prev. (astro)physics @ucl @roma2 and rlc @nulondon | science outreach, LEGO and handball enthusiast
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aquadan1.bsky.social
“Enjoy the peace, Gaia. Thank you for guiding us to the stars. Thank you for helping us, realizing our dreams. Thank you for inspiring our future. Almost family.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/s...
A meme from Seinfeld where two men are talking to each other with the text edited to say: "You're crying from a spacecraft being shut down?" "The humanity of scientists and their fondness for an inaminate object that helps us discover more about the universe got to me"
March 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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scorfano.bsky.social
We are 57% complete , with almost 1,000 volunteers helping out. Why don't you try it? You could be the lucky 1000th!

www.zooniverse.org/projects/kbm...
Zooniverse
The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research.
www.zooniverse.org
February 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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esa.int
The ESA #Gaia mission has delivered the best Milky Way maps to date and taken its last starlight before spacecraft retirement 🔭

www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like face-on: as viewed from above the disc of the galaxy, with its spiral arms and bulge in full view. In the centre of the galaxy, the bulge shines as a hazy oval, emitting a faint golden gleam. Starting at the central bulge, several glistening spiral arms coil outwards, creating a perfectly circle-shaped spiral. They give the impression of someone having sprinkled pastel purple glitter on the pitch-black background, in the shape of sparkling, curled-up snakes. A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like edge-on, against a pitch-black backdrop. The Milky Way’s disc appears in the centre of the image, as a thin, dark-brown line spanning from left to right, with the hint of a wave in it. The line appears to be etched into a thin glowing layer of silver sand, that makes it look as if it was drawn with a coloured pencil on coarse paper. The bulge of the galaxy sits like a glowing, see-through pearl in the shape of a sphere in the centre of this brown line
January 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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emily.space
The @esa.int Gaia satellite will take its final scientific measurements on Wednesday. 🔭

This will conclude a 12 year series of continuous observations.

Larger Gaia data releases are still in progress, but Gaia has already had a HUGE impact on our understanding of the #milkyway.

(Image: ESA)
An artist's impression of the Gaia spacecraft.
January 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM