Gaia's Final Images Saw Something MASSIVE Inside Our Milky Way

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ESA’s Gaia telescope has reached the end of its life, but what has it discovered about our Milky Way galaxy’s hidden secret?

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References
Gaia: ESA’s billion star surveyor, via esa.int (https://astrumspace.info/gaia)
How does Gaia study the Milky Way? Via esa.int (https://astrumspace.info/3FiuHh7)
Inside Gaia’s billion-pixel camera, via ESA on YouTube (https://astrumspace.info/gaiacamera)
Gaia Data Release 1, via esa.int (https://astrumspace.info/3Fl0jCR)
Gaia factsheet, via esa.int (https://astrumspace.info/gaiafactsheet)
How Many Stars in the Milky Way? via nasa.gov (https://astrumspace.info/howmanystars)
Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go Missing, via nasa.gov (https://astrumspace.info/milkywayspiral)
The best Milky Way animation, by Gaia, via ESA on YouTube (https://astrumspace.info/gaiaanimation)
Galactic ghosts: Gaia uncovers major event in the formation of the Milky Way, via esa.int (https://astrumspace.info/4kJmByj)
Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia, via esa.int (https://astrumspace.info/laststarlight)

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Credits
Writer: Jon McColgan
Editor: Frame Forge
Researcher: Edie Abrahams
Thumbnail Designer: Peter Sheppard
Channel Manager: Georgina Brenner
Executive Producer: Raquel Taylor
Creator of Astrum: Alex McColgan

With special thanks to:
NASA/ESO/ESA

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