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February 2025 - Animation of Gaia-5b

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Title Gaia mission animations - February 2025 - Animation of Gaia-5b
Length 00:00:28
Footage Type TV Exchanges
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Copyright ESA/Gaia/DPAC/M. Marcussen, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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Gaia-5b is a brown dwarf orbiting the Gaia-5 star, around 134 light-years away from Earth. With a mass of around 21 Jupiters, Gaia-5b is more massive than a planet but too light to sustain nuclear fusion to be a star. This animation visualises a portion of the orbital motion as determined by Gaia’s astrometric data. The star and planet are not to scale.