Teresa Antoja en El País (in Spanish)
You can see the full article here: La científica española que busca los secretos de la Vía Láctea desde niña
read moreJavier Castañeda explains Gaia IDU @CU3 Meeting
Following the last CU3 plenary meeting, interviews were held by Prof. Stefan Jordan with several of the CU3 managers: Dr. Michael Biermann, Prof. Lennart Lindegren, José Hernández, Dr. Javier Castañeda Pons, Prof. Sergei Klioner, and Dr. Katja Weingrill. They explain the contribution of CU3 to the Gaia mission. The videos can be seen in two versions (short 20 minutes and the longer, 50 mins) here: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow_20210623 The Gaia data releases contain a wealth of astrophysical data on about 1.8 billion stars in our Milky Way and beyond. The creation of these data...
read moreGaia EDR3 en el Boletín de la SEA
El 21 de diciembre de 2020, fecha del solsticio de invierno, se publicó el nº 43 del Boletín electrónico de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía que incluye dos artículos sobre los nuevos datos de Gaia: Gaia EDR3: Avanzando a pasos de gigante, y Gaia: Una de escalera (de caracol) hacia el conocimiento.
read moreGaia EDR3 en tus manos
Now you can enjoy the conference Gaia, our Galaxy in your hands by our researchers, Mercè Romero and Josep Manel Carrasco that was given last Thursday, December 3rd at 19.00 via Youtube Live, the conference is in Spanish. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia satellite is revolutionizing the astronomy, providing unprecedented clues about the origin and evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. Coinciding with the third publication of mission data, with more than 1.8 billion objects, we describe the mission, review Gaia’s strategy for observing the Universe, and analyse the latest...
read moreFrancesca Figueras talks about Gaia mission (RNE, 9/11/2019)
Francesca Figueras talks about Gaia mission at radio programme Sapiens. Full info at http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/sapiens/sapiens-del-paleolitico-supermercado-09-11-19/5438492/ Hace 500 años creíamos que la Tierra era el centro del Universo, ahora sabemos que es un planeta más, de un sistema más de una Galaxia más. El conocimiento nos hace cada vez más pequeños pero a la vez la investigación científica nos hace más grandes. Hoy nos acompaña la astrofísica Francesca Figueras, Presidenta de la Asociación de Astronomía y miembro del equipo de científicos de la misión europea GAIA. En...
read moreGaia starts mapping the galactic bar in the Milky Way (Notícies UB, 16/07/2019)
Gaia starts mapping the galactic bar in the Milky Way (Notícies UB) The first direct measurement of the bar-shaped collection of stars at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy has been made by combining data from the Gaia mission (European Space Agency, ESA) with complementary observations by ground- and space-based telescopes. The study, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, was led by researchers from the Institute of Science Cosmos of the University of Barcelona and from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (Germany). The second release of data from Gaia star-mapping...
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