ROE Winter Talk Gaia: the billion star survey telescope

Seat reservation for the Royal Observatory Edinburgh Winter Talk. Please note your seat reservation will only be held until 7.20pm. You must be seated before this time to guarantee your space.

The Gaia space telescope is the modern incarnation of a very ancient tradition in astronomy: the accurate measurement of the positions of stars. Over the course of it's five year mission, Gaia will scan the entire night sky seventy times over, and construct a precise three dimensional map of the positions and space motions of around one billion stars in the Milky Way. This talk will include a broad introduction to the Gaia space telescope, the basic design and observing principles, the current mission status after two years in space, and some of the science that we can expect from it.

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