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SUMMARY:Gaia - one billion objects in 3+ dimensions - Professor Gerry Gilm
 ore (IOA)
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CONTACT:Andrew Sellek
DESCRIPTION:Gaia is the European Space Agency mission which is revolutioni
 sing our knowledge of our Milky Way Galaxy\, providing a census of positio
 ns\, motions\, colours\, and properties of 1.5 billion stars. Gaia's data 
 will revolutionise much of astronomy\, from near-Earth asteroids\, through
  stellar evolution\, the structure\, formation and evolution of our Milky 
 Way Galaxy\, the distribution of Dark Matter in the Milky Way\, the number
   of planetary systems around other stars\, the cosmological distance scal
 e\, and fundamental tests of General Relativity. In addition to the wealth
  of position data Gaia's camera repeatedly scanning the sky discovers vari
 able and new sources. These are published for follow up by professional as
 tronomers and by amateur astronomers and school classes\, using remotely c
 ontrolled telescopes across the world. Gaia's first major data release hap
 pened on Sept 14 2016. You can learn more\, follow the mission\, and downl
 oad the app at https://gaia.ac.uk.\n\nAll talks and obsnights are free to 
 members (or cost £2 for non-members) – membership can be bought (£12 l
 ife\, £7 annual) at any of our events.
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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