Astronomers have developed a new way of measuring cosmic distances by listening to the frequencies of “music” played by vibrating stars that collectively act as a vast orchestra of different cosmic instruments. The results could help the European Space Agency (ESA) satellite Gaia better measure the positions of about two […]
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The Gaia mission has revealed a “goldmine” of new information on cosmic objects as it continues to create the most comprehensive stellar catalog ever compiled. The new release, known as Gaia’s focused product release (FPR), contains over half a million new faint stars, more than 380 new gravitationally lensed quasars […]
LeBron James meets 12-year-old Gaia – the fan who went viral when she ‘freaked out’ as the Lakers star sat next to her for Saturday’s game vs. Warriors – as The King says ‘this is exactly why I love what I do!’ By Jack Bezants For Dailymail.Com Published: 13:34 GMT, […]
An illuminated planet Earth sculpture is on display in Grimsby Minster as part of a month-long arts programme. The seven-metre diameter (23ft) suspended globe by Luke Jerram has toured the world, including Hong Kong, London and Taiwan. The name of the artwork, Gaia, comes from Greek mythology and is the […]
The man accused of raping the Dorset teenager Gaia Pope the year before she disappeared 2017 was under investigation before she went to police and should have been more closely monitored, the teenager’s family said on Wednesday. Following a long-running inquest into the teenager’s death, which found that multiple agencies […]
An illuminated planet Earth sculpture is to go on display at Derby Cathedral, having won praise elsewhere in the country. Gaia is by UK artist Luke Jerram, whose previous artwork Museum of the Moon came to the cathedral in 2019. The work will open to the public on Thursday and […]
Dame Emma Thompson has hilariously revealed she’s been subtly trying to put her daughter Gaia off acting. The Love Actually star, 63, who shares the drama student, 22, with fellow thespian Greg Wise, 56, joked she’s been dropping hints that her offspring could ‘run a restaurant’ instead. She told the Daily Mail’s […]
LONDON (AP) — James Lovelock, the British environmental scientist whose influential Gaia theory sees the Earth as a living organism gravely imperiled by human activity, has died on his 103rd birthday. Lovelock’s family said Wednesday that he died the previous evening at his home in southwest England “surrounded by his […]