The best space telescope you never heard of just shut down

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review at 07 Apr 2025, 11:58 UTC

Last month, ESA formally shut down the Gaia space telescope out at the Earth-Sun L2 point. Laura Nicole Driessen explains the value of this underappreciated observatory and why its science is not yet done.

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