In the wake of GAIA DR2's release today...

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...here are twitter accounts that you might want to watch:


https://twitter.com/ESAGaia
https://twitter.com/galaxy_map
https://twitter.com/GaiaSky_Dev
https://twitter.com/rdrimmel

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[thewayne]

We were listening to NPR last night while coming home, and some of the finds through data mining have been quite remarkable. One astronomer's field were hyper-velocity planets, planets that move at speeds > 600 km/s. There were 20 known prior to the data set's release, with just a little mining he found another previously unknown.

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Papers are already getting published on the fly, looks like!

https://twitter.com/FadAstra/status/989299350911180800