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The Little Books of Gaia
Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. The spacecraft will provide the positions and velocity measurements of around 1 billion stars – which is about one percent of the stars in our galaxy.
The Little Books of Gaia are A4-page-size summaries that cover different aspects of the Gaia mission which can be folded into little booklets. There is also a template to cut out and build a 3-D model of Gaia.
The six booklets are:
Tales of the Universe - An introduction to astronomy.
History of astrometry - What is astrometry? Why do we want to measure the distances to the stars? What techniques have astronomers used for this?
The galaxy in which we live - How Gaia will revolutionise our understanding of astronomy and, in particular, how it will reveal the origin and evolution of our Milky Way galaxy.
A 3-D tour of our galaxy - A three-dimensional journey to well-known stars and clusters in our galaxy.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Gaia! - An answer to all those questions about Gaia that you wanted to ask.
The search for planets - Gaia will find enormous numbers of other planets outside our Solar System. This booklet explains how.
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A 3D tour of our galaxy 134.13 KB
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History of astrometry 192.59 KB
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Tales of the Universe 195.5 KB
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The galaxy in which we live 166.38 KB
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The search for planets 148.19 KB
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Folding instructions 66.28 KB
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Gaia model instructions 117.56 KB
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Gaia model 105.24 KB
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A 3D tour of our galaxy 134.13 KB -
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History of astrometry 192.59 KB
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Tales of the Universe 195.5 KB
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The galaxy in which we live 166.38 KB
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The search for planets 148.19 KB
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Folding instructions 66.28 KB
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Gaia model instructions 117.56 KB
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Gaia model 105.24 KB
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