Gaia mission at Barcelona International Comic Fair
Gaia mission will be present in the next Barcelona International Comic Fair “Saló del Còmic” (16-19 April 2015) with the talk “Misión Gaia: imágenes para crear el mapa de la galaxia” by Xavi Luri and Josep Manel Carrasco on 18th April, at 18:30h in the conference room 2, at the first floor. http://ficomic.com/noticias.cfm/id/15061/esp/la-conquista-espacio-llega-salon-comic.htm
read moreInterview to Josep Manel Carrasco (Connexió Barcelona, BTV, 20 Mar 2015)
TV programme: “Connexió Barcelona”, Barcelona Televisió (BTV) Interview to Josep Manel Carrasco Webpage: BTV – Connexió Barcelona Publication date: 20 March 2015 Interview to Josep Manel Carrasco Interview to Josep Manel Carrasco about the solar eclipse of 20th March 2015 in the TV show “Connexió Barcelona”, Barcelona Televisió. See the extract of the programme here: Entrevista a Josep Manel Carrasco a “Connexió Barcelona” de BTV sobre l’eclipsi de Sol from Miralcel on Vimeo. and the whole programme...
read more“El director del proyecto Gaia aboga por devolver el conocimiento a la sociedad” (Eldiario.es, 1 Mar 2015)
Newspaper: Eldiario.es Title: “El director del proyecto Gaia aboga por devolver el conocimiento a la sociedad” Webpage: Eldiario.es Publication date: 1 March 2015 El director del proyecto Gaia aboga por devolver el conocimiento a la sociedad EFE – Almería 01/03/2015 – 12:16h El director del proyecto Gaia aboga por devolver el conocimiento a la sociedad El catedrático de Astronomía y Astrofísica de la Universidad de Barcelona y director del grupo español del proyecto Gaia, Jordi Torra, aboga por devolver conocimiento a los ciudadanos, a través de la...
read more“Catalan algorithm for the European Space Agency” (Via empresa, 5 Feb 2015)
Newspaper: Via empresa Title: “Catalan algorithm for the European Space Agency ” Webpage: viaempresa.cat Publication date: 5 February 2015 Catalan algorithm for the European Space Agency Aiats Agustí BARCELONA 05|02|2015 Scientists have developed this company Catalan algorithm for compressing information useful in the world of cloud and mobile sector. Francesc Julbe and equipment Dapcom have worked for more than 10 years on the project of the European Space Agency Gaia processing software. During this time they have developed an algorithm for data compression mechanism to...
read more“Fa un any que es va enlairar la missió Gaia i ja ha detectat 8 supernoves” (TV3 news, 7 Oct 2014)
TV show: Noticies (TV3) Title: “Fa un any que es va enlairar la missió Gaia i ja ha detectat 8 supernoves” Emission date: 7 October 2014 Link to the documentary: Fa un any que es va enlairar la missió Gaia i ja ha detectat 8 supernoves
read moreGaia discovers its first supernova
Date: 12 September 2014 Original link: ESA webpage While scanning the sky to measure the positions and movements of stars in our Galaxy, Gaia has discovered its first stellar explosion in another galaxy far, far away. This powerful event, now named Gaia14aaa, took place in a distant galaxy some 500 million light-years away, and was revealed via a sudden rise in the galaxy’s brightness between two Gaia observations separated by one month. Gaia, which began its scientific work on 25 July, repeatedly scans the entire sky, so that each of the roughly one billion stars in the...
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