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Astronomers’ main reference guide to the Milky Way has. The Gaia mission, in which a spacecraft is tracking nearly two billion stars, has released a vastly improved map. The map now includes the 3D motions of tens of millions of stars and thousands of asteroids — as well as the detections of stellar ‘quakes’ and of possible extrasolar planets.Gaia was launched by the European Space Agency in 2013 and orbits the Sun at a fixed distance from Earth.
UK science minister George Freeman said that negotiations on the United Kingdom’s involvement in Horizon Europe are at a “crunch point”.Concerns are growing that the United Kingdom is on theafter UK science minister George Freeman said on 8 June that “time is closing” for a positive resolution.
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