<ul><li>The European Space Agency (ESA) has bid farewell to the Gaia spacecraft after over ten years in space.</li><li>Gaia was launched in 2013 with the aim of mapping the Milky Way galaxy and has measured the positions, movements, and properties of nearly two billion stars and space objects.</li><li>Although Gaia has been powered down, the data it collected will continue to provide insights into the universe for many years.</li><li>Gaia's systems were carefully shut down and the spacecraft was moved into a safe orbit around the Sun, where it will stay for at least 100 years.</li></ul>

Farewell to Gaia: The spacecraft that mapped our galaxy

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