Gaia presentations

In this vodcast Rebecca Barnes discovers the motions of the stars, learns how astronomers measure their distances and looks at the new European mission that will really get to grips with our place in the Universe: Gaia.

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This is a preview of a Gaia powerpoint presentation which gives an overview of the mission. This powerpoint file, containing 24 slides, is available to download. One of these (slide 8) has an associated animation which is not included in this preview. This animation (in avi format) is available to download separately. The preview will scroll through all 24 slides automatically.

The images in this preview are degraded and are not necessarily representative of the original images in the powerpoint file.