Press Conference: First Data Release from ESAs Gaia Mission

Launched in December 2013, Gaia is destined to create the most accurate map yet of the Milky Way. By making accurate measurements of the positions and motions of stars in the Milky Way, it will answer questions about the origin and evolution of our home galaxy. The first intermediate data release, containing among other things threedimensional positions and twodimensional motions of a subset of two million stars, demonstrates that Gaias measurements are as precise as planned, paving the way to create th