AFP
ESA Space Telescope Gaia Ends its Work After Over a Decade
The European Space Agency ESA has ended the mission of the European space telescope Gaia after more than a decade. The telescope was placed in a retirement orbit around the Sun to avoid interfering with the latest space telescopes Euclid and James Webb. In over 11 years, Gaia collected data from more than 1.8 billion stars, 50 dwarf galaxies, 150,000 asteroids, and at least 33 black holes. The collected data will be analyzed in the coming years.
