This image, a composite of several observations captured by ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST), shows the ESA spacecraft Gaia as a faint trail of dots across the lower half of the star-filled field of view. These observations were taken as part of an ongoing collaborative effort to measure Gaia’s orbit and improve the accuracy of its unprecedented star map.
The release, images and videos are available on:
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1908/
Kind regards,
The ESO Department of Communication
2 May 2019
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