Opening (activating) the gates of Gaia
The huge Gaia focal plane consists of 106 CCDs. As you may know already from previous blog entries Gaia will fly the biggest camera ever into space. The image created by the two telescopes will be...
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Last night, Nick James, based in the UK, captured some fantastic views of Gaia as it departed Earth en route to L2, about 1.5 million km away from Earth opposite the Sun. The video acquired at about...
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