Constellations in 3D
Eduard Masana, lecturer at the Physics Faculty and researcher of the Gaia group of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB), explains how the perspective changes the way we see the stars in the sky, and how not all the stars are at the same distances, but they could be very far from each other. Using Orion as an example, this video guides us to build the constellation in 3-D. This activity was organised by the “VI Festa de la Ciència de la Universitat de Barcelona” in virtual version with the aim to keep the connection between research and society,...
read moreTeresa 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...
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