Astronomy / Space Gaia 'billion star surveyor' set for launch

[StarTux]

Nice article here.

Makes me wonder how accurate Elite Dangerous will end up being and to also see it being updated on the fly as new information accumulates.

 

[BaronDeKalb]

"The one billion to be catalogued by Gaia is still only 1% of the Milky Way's total"

Kind of makes one feel small, lol... That is quite a detector they have built.

 

[Arbanax]

Gaia

Mapping our galaxy now got a lot more clever, if all goes to plan.

Great little report from the BBC website on the satellite star mapper Gaia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25441524

Look forward to further contact inspired by this in the games near future ;-)

Ab

 

[Zieman]

"The one billion to be catalogued by Gaia is still only 1% of the Milky Way's total"

Kind of makes one feel small, lol... That is quite a detector they have built.

Oh yeah. Especially if those estimates that make Gaia's catalogue only 1/4% of the total are closer to the truth .

 

[rgb_astro]

Since there are 100-400 billions stars in ED, do we have to wait for 100 years at least at the rate of 1 billion stars/year? ))

 

[Sir.Tj]

Merged and moved to astonomy forum.

 

[Arbanax]

Thanks TJ for some reason couldn't find it when I posted :S

Ab

 

[Capt. Hook]

Nice article here.

Makes me wonder how accurate Elite Dangerous will end up being and to also see it being updated on the fly as new information accumulates.

+1 was thinking the very same thing when I heard it had succesfully launched.