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How We Mapped 1 Billion Stars And Other Mysteries Of Outer Space

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Gaia launched in December 2013 its 5-year mission to study the billions of stars in our Milky Way galaxy

The second data release of it has Gaia Mission has produced an extraordinary catalog of over one and a half billion stars

Tess will eventually fly in a special highly elliptical orbit that maximizes the amount of Sky the spacecraft can image

The Gaia mission is expected to be extended to 2020 which means not only cataloging more stars but also examining possible exoplanets around them

Questions This Creator Answers

QHow are billions of stars in the Milky Way mapped?
QWhat are the latest discoveries in exoplanet research?
QHow do space telescopes like James Webb and Hubble contribute to our understanding of the universe?
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