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SUMMARY:New World Discovery in the Era of Gaia and PLATO - Nicholas Walton
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CONTACT:Oliver Normand
DESCRIPTION:The ESA Gaia mission has been mapping the Milky Way since 2014
 . It will provide high precision  parallaxes and hence distances to some 2
  billion stars in our Milky Way. With it's second data release (Gaia DR2)\
 , Gaia is already having a transformational impact on our understanding of
  the Milky Way and its constituent components. Recent results using Gaia D
 R2 have  ranged from new results on the Hubble constant\, to the discovery
  of recent dwarf galaxy mergers into the Milky Way\, to crystallized white
  dwarf stars.\n\nGaia data will also enable a powerful tool in the discove
 ry and characterisation  of exo-planets and their host stars. In this pres
 entation\, the role of Gaia will be discussed\, and how together with the 
 upcoming ESA PLATO Mission\, we will be able to discover Earth like exo-pl
 anets in the habitable zone around\, crucially\, solar type stars. \n\nThe
  talk will be at the usual location of the Wolfson lecture theatre in the 
 Department of Chemistry\, shown on the map here: https://map.cam.ac.uk/#52
 .197868\,0.125487\,19\,52.197816\,0.125093\n\nTickets are £2 or free for 
 members. Annual membership (£7) and life membership (£12) can also be pu
 rchased at the event – cash or card. The talk will be followed by refres
 hments outside the lecture theatre.\n\nThis talk is part of the Cambridge 
 University Astronomical Society (CUAS) series.
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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