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Gaia’s living and breathing Galaxy

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The recent data release from the Gaia space observatory is already changing our understanding of the evolution of our Galaxy.

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Fig. 1: The Milky Way and neighbouring galaxies as seen by the European Space Agency’s Gaia space observatory.

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