Public Lecture: Gaia Update

George Seabroke presents an update lecture on the GAIA Mission in the Whittle Theatre.

Gaia, the Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics, is a European Space Agency astronomical observatory mission. Its goal is to create the largest, most precise three-dimensional map of the Milky Way by surveying about 1% of the galaxy's 100 billion stars.

Gaia will detect and very accurately measure the motion of each star in its orbit around the center of the galaxy.
Each of the 1 billion stars that Gaia studies will be observed an average of 70 times over five years to create a record of the brightness and the position of each star over time.

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