{"id":204086,"date":"2025-01-19T13:37:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T19:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/gaias-farewell-gift-is-the-best-milky-way-map-weve-ever-seen"},"modified":"2025-01-19T13:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T19:37:35","slug":"gaias-farewell-gift-is-the-best-milky-way-map-weve-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/gaias-farewell-gift-is-the-best-milky-way-map-weve-ever-seen","title":{"rendered":"Gaia\u2019s Farewell Gift Is The Best Milky Way Map We\u2019ve Ever Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wEZBNsU4dMU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms. By that metric, the ESA\u2019s Gaia mission is a resounding success.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy and has forced us to abandon old ideas and replace them with compelling new ones.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, we\u2019re marking the end of the Gaia mission, our best effort to understand the Milky Way. Gaia is an astrometry mission that\u2019s built an impressive map of the Milky Way by taking three trillion observations of two billion individual objects in the galaxy, most of them stars, over an 11-year period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms. By that metric, the ESA\u2019s Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy and has forced us to abandon old ideas and replace them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}