Gaia, the space observatory, won’t shut down easily now that its mission is over. Shades of Star Trek—TOS episode “The Changling,” “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.” You knew this would be a problem! 
@books @bookstodon @religion #ChristianSciFi #ProfessorK #space #sciencefiction #AI #StarTrek #Gaia #amwritingsf #secretscifinetwork
A 5-minute summary video on the 11-year observational legacy of the Gaia telescope, as it ends its observational life and goes into passive mode. There are still two large data releases to come.
Gaia: Rewriting the story of the Milky Way | European Space Agency, ESA
https://youtu.be/LrV7xeAM7bg
#ESA #Gaia #Space #science #astronomy
"Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest."
James Lovelock bookmark 
#bookmark #jameslovelock #mastoart #fediart #gaia #enviormentalism
To further mark the retirement of the ESA's amazingly successful #Gaia Milky Way surveyor spacecraft yesterday, some pictures taken of it during my visit to EADS Astrium in Toulouse on 3 May 2013, 6.5 months before launch.
1. Me in front of the large silicon carbide torus with its two large rectangular telescope primary mirrors;
2. The torus from below;
3. The huge focal plane with its 106 CCD detectors;
4. The large "top hat" that covers it all.
The Milky Way, if we could see it from above.
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/01/The_best_Milky_Way_map_by_Gaia
Some memorabilia from yesterday’s event at ESOC as the ESA #Gaia spacecraft was deactivated after running out of propellant & moved off L2 into an Earth-trailing solar orbit.
One of these objects might last until the Sun turns into red giant five billion years from now; the other will be lucky to last the weekend 
Thanks to my ESA colleagues for the former & the fine folk at Oedipus Brewing in Amsterdam for the latter 
Names of >1500 people participated in #Gaia were uploaded to onboard memory before final shutdown. Proud to be in the list :)
#greenland #minerals #Gaia Commentators are seriously deluded if they think native Greenlanders will monetise their natural resources for the benefit of #USA #capitalist #hegemony. Get to fek you money gubbing bar stewards. (from back in the day "yankee go home") 
Proud to present to you the release of "Révoltée", a very personal and committed EP 
To listen : https://bfan.link/revoltee
Thanks to Lamine Slyroots for machines, mixing and mastering 
Eine Ära geht zu Ende: Nach zwölf Jahren im All wurde das europäische Weltraumteleskop Gaia nun abgeschaltet – einer der erfolgreichsten Astronomiehelfer im All. #Gaia #ESA #Teleskop #Astronomie #GaiaTeleskop
https://www.scinexx.de/news/kosmos/weltraumteleskop-gaia-ist-abgeschaltet/
The #European #Space Agency #ESA has powered down its #Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel the secrets of our home galaxy. On 27 March 2025, Gaia’s control team at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre carefully switched off the spacecraft’s subsystems and sent it into a ‘retirement orbit’ around the Sun. #SpaceScience #Astronomy #Science https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Farewell_Gaia!_Spacecraft_operations_come_to_an_end
#Gaia a été officiellement complètement éteint ce mardi. La sonde s'éloigne désormais du point de Lagrange 2 afin d'éviter toute interférence avec les missions actuelles ou futures.
Charlie, la mascotte de la mission
https://youtube.com/shorts/UmuvxKX_RGM?feature=shared
Fittingly the last talk of today’s celebration & wake for the Gaia spacecraft – Anthony Brown of the Sterrewacht Leiden, chair of the Data Processing & Analysis Consortium, presenting some of the science highlights from the mission (so far).
I’ve read a lot of these papers & have presented many the committees, but it always amazes me just how broad & revolutionary the science is, including but far beyond the Milky Way archaeology work
Farewell message by Ronald Drimmel -
“Two is better than one,” someone said,
so two telescopes you were given.
“Two is better than one,” you replied,
so two billion stars you gifted.
Ten years (and more!) you danced around the Sun
but always stayed on station.
Duty is done. It’s time to be untethered,
to wander free beneath those stars,
no further measures to be taken.
You’ll hear no more from me, nor we from you,
but you’ll not easily be forgotten.
...
Here’s the moment that we lost radio contact with Gaia today 
The memories of the same happening here at the end of the Rosetta mission in 2016 are strong 
A sad day, but the science continues
Ad astra, Gaia
Alors que le télescope spatial européen #Gaia est éteint définitivement ce 27 mars, retour sur l'une de ses dernières découvertes : une Super-Jupiter et une naine brune.
https://reves-d-espace.com/nouvelles-decouvertes-pour-le-telescope-europeen-gaia-super-jupiter-et-naine-brune/
AMD ensenya Gaia, un projecte de codi obert per fer funcionar LLMs al vostre PC.
#AMD has launched a new #opensource project called, #GAIA an application that leverages the power of #Ryzen #AI Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to run private and local large language models (LLMs) https://www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/technical-articles/gaia-an-open-source-project-from-amd-for-running-local-llms-on-ryzen-ai.html
