GAIA – Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics
Gaia has spent a decade mapping the Milky Way by making three trillion observations of two billion stars.
In a welcome return visit, Dr. Steve Barrett of the University of Liverpool will explain how this was done and what will we learn when all the data is analysed.
Image credit ©ESA–D. Ducros, 2013
Following his excellent talk, Steve offered a couple of links:
Slides of the talk be downloaded from https://www.liv.ac.uk/~sdb/Talks/Gaia-HLCO.pdf
and a video recording of the talk is on YouTube at https://youtu.be/NmaogYK4uqU