{"id":3922057,"date":"2025-09-20T12:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/make-like-a-spacecraft-and-fly-through-gaias-3d-map-of-stellar-nurseries\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T12:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:03:06","slug":"make-like-a-spacecraft-and-fly-through-gaias-3d-map-of-stellar-nurseries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/make-like-a-spacecraft-and-fly-through-gaias-3d-map-of-stellar-nurseries\/","title":{"rendered":"Make like a spacecraft and fly through Gaia&#8217;s 3D map of stellar nurseries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>When the ESA launched the Gaia spacecraft in 2013, it didn&#8217;t generate the same fanfare as the launch of other missions like the JWST, or first light from telescopes like the Vera Rubin Observatory. That&#8217;s largely because Gaia doesn&#8217;t capture gorgeous images of celestial objects like other telescopes. Instead, Gaia was an astrometry mission.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-09-spacecraft-fly-gaia-3d-stellar.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the ESA launched the Gaia spacecraft in 2013, it didn&#8217;t generate the same fanfare as the launch of other missions like the JWST, or first light from telescopes like the Vera Rubin Observatory. That&#8217;s largely because Gaia doesn&#8217;t capture gorgeous images of celestial objects like other telescopes. Instead, Gaia was an astrometry mission. <\/p>\n<p>Go [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}