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After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into “retirement orbit” around the Sun on Thursday, the European Space Agency said.
Since launching in 2013, the telescope has been charting the positions, motion and properties of nearly two billion stars to create a vast map of the Milky Way, revealing many secrets of the cosmos along the way, the ESA said in a statement.
Gaia uncovered evidence of massive galaxies slamming into each other, identified vast clusters of stars, helped discover new exoplanets and mapped millions of galaxies and blazing galactic monsters called quasars.
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]]>Jeff Bezos is back in the (astro) picture= hooray! [ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24eg7z7zgo](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24eg7z7zgo)
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s space company has blasted its first rocket into orbit in a bid to challenge the dominance of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
The New Glenn rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 02:02 local time (07:02 GMT).
It firmly pits the world’s two richest men against each other in a commercial space race, vying to fly bigger and more powerful rockets.
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