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Billion-pixel Gaia camera to map (Milkyway) galaxy in 3D
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Send message Joined: 8 Aug 08 Posts: 21 Credit: 453,033 RAC: 495 |
The European Space Agency successfully put its Gaia satellite into orbit, with the hopes of unrolling a stunning map of the Milky Way in 3D. The Milky Way is about to be seen in a whole new way. The European Space Agency has successfully launched its Gaia satellite into orbit, bringing a 1 billion-pixel camera detector to map our galaxy in 3D. The stargazer lifted off on Thursday aboard a Soyuz-Fregat rocket from a launch pad at Sinnamary in French Guiana. Its mission is to map the precise location of over a billion stars. Its instruments are expected to help discover planets, asteroids, and supernovas, as well as reveal a better understanding of the origin and structure of the Milky Way. Link to Full article at CNet |
Send message Joined: 22 Jan 11 Posts: 375 Credit: 64,657,871 RAC: 0 |
Yea I heard about this too, sounds amazing! Btw does Gaia make MW@H 3D mapping obsolete? Team AnandTech - SETI@H, DPAD, F@H, MW@H, A@H, LHC, POGS, R@H, Einstein@H, DHEP, WCG Main rig - Ryzen 5 3600, MSI B450 G.Pro C. AC, RTX 3060Ti 8GB, 32GB DDR4 3200, Win 10 64bit 2nd rig - i7 4930k @4.1 GHz, HD 7870 XT 3GB(DS), 16GB DDR3 1866, Win7 |
Send message Joined: 24 Apr 09 Posts: 13 Credit: 50,337,909 RAC: 0 |
My quick take would be that it makes MW@H more relevant than ever. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey that they currently use is massive and nice but I imagine this will trump it by over an order of magnitude. The base data will be similar (star positions and magnitudes), just more. So, the algorithms and processing flow the fine folks at RPI have pioneered here would probably be the only tractable means for processing this new data set. Better is the enemy of the good. -Voltaire Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. - Napoleon |
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