This rendering was created to show the spacecraft in its mission phase. I rendered this image in Maxwell and composited it in After Effects.
Detail view, prior to post-production.
Detail view, prior to post-production.
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Gaia Space Observatory | ESA
Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, in the process revealing the composition, formation and evolution of the Galaxy. Gaia will provide unprecedented positional and radial velocity measurements with the accuracies needed to produce a stereoscopic and kinematic census of about one billion stars in our Galaxy and throughout the Local Group. This amounts to about 1 per cent of the Galactic stellar population.
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