See https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/news_20170203
Gaia DR2 postponed
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Gaia DR2 postponed
The second Gaia Data Release has been postponed until April, 2018.
See https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/news_20170203
See https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/news_20170203
Selden
Look at the bright side of it. The Celestia Developement Team now will have the time to enable Celestia 2.0 to handle the one billion star data...
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By the way, Gaia Sky feels like a very bad (not user friendly) version of Celestia..
https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky/
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Competition, competition...
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Wait a minute: if Gaia Sky is open source...can it help to develop Celestia 2.0?
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By the way, Gaia Sky feels like a very bad (not user friendly) version of Celestia..
https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky/
Added after 1 minute 43 seconds:
Competition, competition...
Added after 2 minutes 49 seconds:
Wait a minute: if Gaia Sky is open source...can it help to develop Celestia 2.0?