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Beata Krowicka 07.02.2014
class=”imgLead” id=”photo-desc”> One of the first images taken by the spacecraft Gaia presents a group of stars galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud , photo: EPA / EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY - probe Gaia spacecraft has sent the first photo – the ratio of Raphael Motriuka (IAR) Add to playlist
Experts European Space Agency fired her in December from a base in French Guiana. Gaia has reached a stable vantage point L2, a million miles from Earth. I photographed a group of stars in distant galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.
is a photo of the test and probably one of the few that will be sent by the probe. Images will be saved because only through it. Gaia is expected to gather around a million gigabytes of data, equivalent to 200 thousand. DVDs.
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??main task is to create an accurate, three-dimensional map of our galaxy – the Milky Way.
Gaia cost over 700 million euros, was built for 20 years. The researchers point out that while Gaia has seen a billion stars, that they represent only one percent of our galaxy.
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