The UK Space Agency and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), fund the Mullard Space Science Laboratory and the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Leicester, which all contribute to the Gaia mission.
The data has been made available to the public in hopes of uncovering new cosmic phenomena.
And the Gaia Early Data Release 3 has been released to the scientific community and public today (December 3).
Dr Floor van Leeuwen of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, said: “Gaia is measuring the distances of hundreds of millions of objects that are many thousands of light-years away, at an accuracy equivalent to measuring the thickness of hair at a distance of more than 2,000 kilometres.
“These data are one of the backbones of astrophysics, allowing us to forensically analyse our stellar neighbourhood, and tackle crucial questions about the origin and future of our galaxy.”