After a 20-year search, astronomers have uncovered a grand total of 1,900 planets residing outside of the Solar System. Last year, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Gaia spacecraft with a mission to create a massive, three-dimensional map of the Milky Way by surveying a billion stars in our galaxy (that’s just one percent of the estimated Milky Way star population, but still impressive.)
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