Ode to Gaia

Looking up, above the brigth sky in the darkness where the stars shine high measuring angles and positions, never a mission had so much ambitions. Plotting a map of the Milky Way and bringing our knowledge a step further away, unraveling the Galaxy mistery. This is how Gaia will go down in history.                                             Guiseppe, 30/01/2013   Giuseppe Altavilla completed his PhD at the Astronomy Department of the University of Padua (Italy) at the beginning of 2004. During his PhD he worked on a supernova search at intermediate redshift and on the absolute...