Opening (activating) the gates of Gaia (14 Jul 2014)
Media: Gaia ESA blog and news Title: “Opening (activating) the gates of Gaia” Links: Gaia blog and news Publication date: 14 July 2014 OPENING (ACTIVATING) THE GATES OF GAIA The huge Gaia focal plane consists of 106 CCDs. As you may know already from previous blog entries Gaia will fly the biggest camera ever into space. The image created by the two telescopes will be huge: about 1 m wide and 0.5 m high. To cover this entire area you need 106 different CCDs (detectors). Most of them are white light CCDs. Additionally there are blue sensitive (BP) and red...
read moreRaising Gaia, Europe’s Brainchild (El País, 4 July 2014)
Newspaper: El País Title: “Raising Gaia, Europe’s Brainchild” Webpage: elpais.com Publication date: 4 July 2014 Raising Gaia, Europe’s Brainchild By Xavier Luri Carrascoso, University of Barcelona Working on a space mission is a bit like raising children: it takes years, patience and some suffering, but it is also very rewarding. For me parenthood and the work on a space mission started around 2001, when my wife, Isabel, gave birth to our daughter Ana and the European Space Agency (ESA) approved the Gaia mission. Gaia’s main goal is to measure the distance to one billion...
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Mapa en 3D de la Galàxia
TV show: Generació Digital (Canal 33) Title: “Mapa en 3D de la Galàxia” Emission date: 13 May 2014
read moreLa UB se suma a la Big Data Week a Barcelona
Newspaper: UB news Title: “La UB se suma a la Big Data Week a Barcelona” Webpage: http://www.ub.edu Publication date: 6 May 2014 06/05/2014Recerca En el marc de la Big Data Week 2014 que té lloc aquesta setmana a Barcelona, el Centre de Recursos per a l’Aprenentatge i la Investigació (CRAI) de la UB organitza avui dimarts, 6 de maig, a la sala Eduard Fontserè de la Facultat de Física, una sessió matinal titulada «Les dades en la recerca científica». L’activitat, que es proposa amb un plantejament transversal, tractarà aspectes que poden afectar qualsevol disciplina...
read moreGAIA, Protagonista De La Segunda Jornada Del XXI Congreso Estatal De Astronomía
Newspaper: Granada en la Red Title: “GAIA, Protagonista De La Segunda Jornada Del XXI Congreso Estatal De Astronomía” Webpage: www.granadaenlared.com Publication date: 3 May 2014 GAIA, Protagonista De La Segunda Jornada Del XXI Congreso Estatal De Astronomía 3/05/2014 Francesca Figueras, durante su intervención. La segunda jornada del XXI Congreso Estatal de Astronomía que se celebra en Granada del 1 al 4 de mayo intentó dar respuesta a algunos de los interrogantes más actuales de la astrofísica. Durante la mañana, Fernando Moreno (IAA-CSIC) ofreció a...
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