That it takes the ESA to a project of launching in 2009 with the objective to give necessary and detailed information on, approximately, a billion of shining objects of the sky, that caoticamente confuse stars or not, galaxies if finding or nebulas. GAIA will be a satellite of three tons of weight that will be placed the 1,5 kilometers of the Land and will take two identical telescopes of 1,7 meters of diameter. GAIA will have to operate during five years and its results, in terms of mapping of the object content of our Galaxy, will have to be, really, impressive for the great astronomical mico.
2007-01-19
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➔ Astronomy & Space