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Tango01	24 Apr 2018 9:07 p.m. PST
… Understanding of Astronomy. "Astronomers from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission will release the biggest map of our galaxy ever tomorrow, using data collected by the Gaia space telescope. That includes 1.7 billion stars, as well as new information that could potentially solve some cosmic mysteries. The ESA's Gaia telescope launched in 2013 and soon after began its galaxy-mapping mission. Back in 2016, it released position and brightness data for 1.1 billion stars, and tomorrow's release, called DR2, will bump the catalog up to almost 1.7 billion stars. It's a big deal. "It will be the most precise and complete stellar catalog ever produced," Gaia Science Operations Manager Uwe Lammers told Gizmodo…." link Main page link Amicalement Armand
Cacique Caribe	25 Apr 2018 2:42 a.m. PST
"1.7 billion stars" That's a hell of a lot of places I'm never going to ever get a chance to visit. Dan
Editor in Chief Bill	25 Apr 2018 9:15 a.m. PST
This could invalidate all of our old Traveller maps…
Bowman	25 Apr 2018 4:11 p.m. PST
That's a hell of a lot of places I'm never going to ever get a chance to visit. You can't even see them. On a good night you can only see about 2000 stars. Further only about 5,000 can be seen from the Earth with the naked eye. That's a very, very, very, small percentage!
Tango01	25 Apr 2018 10:27 p.m. PST
(smile) Amicalement Armand

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