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BERLIN — The European Space Agency successfully launched its star-surveying satellite Gaia into space today (Dec 19) in a bid to produce the most accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ...

BERLIN (AP) – The European Space Agency has launched a satellite that it hopes will produce the most accurate three-dimensional map of our part of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency says its Ga… ...