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Gaia

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Star Gaia 17pbi Seen by Spitzer

The location of Gaia 17bpi, which lies in the Sagitta constellation, is indicated in this image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

2018

NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Kuhn (Caltech) · NASA media (public domain)

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Gaia was ESA's astrometry mission, charting the positions, distances, and motions of nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way.

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  • ESAEuropean Space Agency

    European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.