.. _survey gaia:

Gaia Space Observatory
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Gaia is a retired space observatory of the European Space Agency whose mission was to build the largest, most precise three-dimensional map of the Milky Way galaxy by surveying nearly 2 billion objects.

Mission resources:

- `Gaia Homepage <https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia>`__
- `Gaia - NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive <https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/gaia.html>`__

Data products served by Pitt-Google:

- Catalogs. The documentation for the latest Gaia data release, Gaia Data Release 3, can be view on `<https://gea.esac.esa.int/archive/documentation/GDR3/index.html>`__.
  Complete documentation can be found at the mission resources above.