Curious, astronomer, Latin american, maker of things, surveyor of the universe, unrealistically cheering for humanity, one bad news away from a mental 🫠, etc.
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ALT Infographic showcasing ESA's Gaia mission in numbers during its sky-scanning phase. The image includes a new artist impression of our Milky Way in the background, an artist impression of the Gaia space telescope in front of it, and numbers on the sky-scanning phase written in a circle in the foreground: 3 trillion observations, 2 billion stars & other objects observed, 938 million camera pixels on board, 15 300 spacecraft ‘pirouettes’, 55 kilogram cold nitrogen gas consumed, 3827 days in science operations, 50 000 hours ground station time used, 500 terabytes volume of data release 4 (5.5 years of observations), 142 terabytes downlinked data (compressed), 2.8 million commands sent to spacecraft, 13 000 refereed scientific publications so far, 580 million accesses of Gaia catalogue so far.
ALT Infographic showing that 3 in 100 “best” scientists in the world are female and 10 in 100 are named Michael or Eric.
ALT Several white men sat in a row
