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ESA Bulletin 137: ESA's 'billion-pixel' camera - The challenges of the Gaia mission

Publication date: 15 February 2010

Authors: Gare, P., at al.

Journal: ESA Bulletin
Volume: 137
Page: 51-59
Year: 2010

Copyright: ESA

Gaia is ESA's global space astrometry mission, designed to map one thousand million stars and hundreds of thousands of other celestial objects in our galaxy, so its camera will have to be something truly special.

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