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(2014–2019), and about as many during its extension. Due to its detectors degrading more slowly than initially expected, the data acquisition phase of the mission was given an extension, lasting until March 27, 2025, when scientists at the ESA switched off Gaia after more than a decade of service. Gaia targeted objects brighter than magnitude 20 in a broad photometric band that covered the extended visual range between near-UV and near infrared; such objects represent approximately 1% of

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