UK space probe spots tsunami-like ‘starquake’ as ‘goldmine’ exposes Milky Way’s secrets

“Gaia is opening a goldmine for asteroseismology of massive stars.”

Aside from the starquakes, the Gaia probe has also gathered data on binary stars (pairs of stars that revolve around each other or a common centre), moons, around 155,000 asteroids, and numerous of galaxies outside our own.

Dr Nicholas Walton, Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and member of the ESA Gaia Science Team, said:

“This major data release from Gaia not only allows astronomers to map the distances and motions of some two billion stars in our galaxy, but it also gives detailed measures of the physical and chemical makeup of a large number of those objects for the first time.

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