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The European Space Telescope has discovered 500,000 new stars and many asteroids.
According to the latest data provided by the European Space Agency observatory , the Gaia telescope has detected 500,000 stars in a nearby cluster, nearly 400 gravitational lenses, and the orbits of approximately 156,000 asteroids. These data were obtained as part of the observatory's third release, the first part of which was published in June 2022.
"With the new data, we can study the structure of the cluster, the distribution of stars in it, their movement and much more, creating a full - scale map of Omega Centauri," said Alexey Mints, a member of the Gaia collaboration with the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam.
The stars that were collected in the latest set of observations are located in Omega Centauri, the largest globular cluster visible from Earth. The newly discovered stars are fainter than many previously discovered ones; now the Gaia telescope has seen 10 times as many stars in the core of this cluster.
The gravitational lenses observed by Gaia allow astronomers to go deep into space to see ancient galaxies and even find out about the nature of dark matter. "Thanks to Gaia, we have discovered that some of the objects we see are actually distant lensed quasars - extremely bright, energetic galactic nuclei powered by black holes," said Christine Ducouran, an astrophysicist at the Bordeaux Astrophysics Laboratory.
The next release of Gaia data, which will include observations of eight other regions of space, is planned for 2026, and the final fifth release will be released no earlier than the end of 2030.
According to the latest data provided by the European Space Agency observatory , the Gaia telescope has detected 500,000 stars in a nearby cluster, nearly 400 gravitational lenses, and the orbits of approximately 156,000 asteroids. These data were obtained as part of the observatory's third release, the first part of which was published in June 2022.
"With the new data, we can study the structure of the cluster, the distribution of stars in it, their movement and much more, creating a full - scale map of Omega Centauri," said Alexey Mints, a member of the Gaia collaboration with the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam.
The stars that were collected in the latest set of observations are located in Omega Centauri, the largest globular cluster visible from Earth. The newly discovered stars are fainter than many previously discovered ones; now the Gaia telescope has seen 10 times as many stars in the core of this cluster.
The gravitational lenses observed by Gaia allow astronomers to go deep into space to see ancient galaxies and even find out about the nature of dark matter. "Thanks to Gaia, we have discovered that some of the objects we see are actually distant lensed quasars - extremely bright, energetic galactic nuclei powered by black holes," said Christine Ducouran, an astrophysicist at the Bordeaux Astrophysics Laboratory.
The next release of Gaia data, which will include observations of eight other regions of space, is planned for 2026, and the final fifth release will be released no earlier than the end of 2030.
