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It's time for astroboffins and enthusiasts to start clearing space on their hard drives: the European Space Agency has scheduled its first Gaia mission data drop for September 14, 2016. The ESA says data in the release will include a billion stars' positions and G magnitude, the product of observations from July 2014 and …

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  1. Michael Hoffmann Silver badge
    Joke

    FAA Advisory

    Please, let somebody include the line in the dataset:

    "Not to be used for interstellar navigation"

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    1. You aint sin me, roit
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      Re: FAA Advisory

      Quite.

      A billion stars? Not even close to 1% of the Milky Way...

      My GPS needs more data than that.

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