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Gaia Mission Discovers Half a Million New Stars and 150,000 Asteroids

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gaia mission discovers half a million new stars and 150000 asteroids
gaia mission discovers half a million new stars and 150000 asteroids

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.

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Source: gizmodo.com