PHOTOS: Soyuz blasts off with Gaia star surveyorBY STEPHEN CLARKSPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: December 20, 2013
The sharp-sighted Gaia observatory, carrying the largest camera ever flown in space, rocketed into a predawn sky from French Guiana on Thursday to survey a billion stars and reveal the structure of the Milky Way in finer detail than any mission before.
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