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Big data and the ESA Gaia Mission
The Gaia spacecraft is a European Space Agency mission to map one billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. This collection of resources allows students to analyse real data from the spacecraft. The collection is divided into 3 sections:
- Background information for teachers and students on the Gaia mission, supernovae and Hubble’s Law.
- Introductory activities using Gaia data and the image processing software Salsa J
- Intermediate and Advanced activities using data from the Las Cumbres Observatory and the Gaia Alerts
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ESA Gaia Mission - Background and Teacher's Guide
The Gaia spacecraft is a European Space Agency mission to map one billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
This resource includes a teacher’s guide, with suggested teaching sequence for the resource, and background information for both the teacher and student on the Gaia mission. It also includes an...
ESA Gaia Mission - Introductory activities
The Gaia spacecraft is a European Space Agency mission to map one billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
‘Introductory Activity – Hubble expansion’ – Students use spreadsheets and sample data from historical supernovae to produce lightcurves and calculate the distances to the supernovae, leading to a...
ESA Gaia Mission - Intermediate and Advanced activities
The Gaia spacecraft is a European Space Agency mission to map one billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
‘Using the LCO and ESA Gaia data archives to find Type Ia supernovae targets – Student Guide’ – this guides the students through the process of data-mining the Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) and Gaia...
| Subject(s) | Science, Physics, Working scientifically |
|---|---|
| Age | 14-16, 16-19 |
| Published | 2010 to 2019 |
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| Direct URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/cxdwbh |
