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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/markmccaughrean/statuses/114233532645296919">Mark McCaughrean (markmccaughrean@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 19:50:39 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@markmccaughrean" title="markmccaughrean@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/40452-48-20221126151148.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Mark McCaughrean" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Mark McCaughrean</a></section><article><p>Wow – didn’t think I’d be in tears today, but this message sent home from Gaia as it was shut down forever today hits hard 😭</p><p>What you’re seeing is a map of the 106 CCD detectors that Gaia used to measure the positions of billions of stars in the Milky Way for the past 11 years 🛰️✨</p><p>They were turned off in a special sequence … 😕</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" rel="tag">#SpaceScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Astronomy" rel="tag">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" rel="tag">#Science</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4801448#notice-9404711">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-03-27T19:50:39+09:00" title="Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 19:50:39 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@markmccaughrean/114233532645296919" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@markmccaughrean/114233532645296919">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4370288">A shot of a TV screen with many green squares, interspersed with grey ones spelling out the word “bye”.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/233/529/670/727/982/original/8686a5b242697f16.jpeg" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/233/529/670/727/982/original/8686a5b242697f16.jpeg</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Mark McCaughrean (markmccaughrean@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 19:50:39 JST Mark McCaughrean
Wow – didn’t think I’d be in tears today, but this message sent home from Gaia as it was shut down forever today hits hard 😭
What you’re seeing is a map of the 106 CCD detectors that Gaia used to measure the positions of billions of stars in the Milky Way for the past 11 years 🛰️✨
They were turned off in a special sequence … 😕
#SpaceScience #Astronomy #Science
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