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Wow β didnβt think Iβd be in tears today, but this message sent home from Gaia as it was shut down forever today hits hard π
What youβre seeing is a map of the 106 CCD detectors that Gaia used to measure the positions of billions of stars in the Milky Way for the past 11 years π°οΈβ¨
They were turned off in a special sequence β¦ π