The Gaia space telescope has spent a decade mapping the Milky Way by making three trillion observations of two billion stars. How did it do this and what will we learn when all the data is analysed?
Space Badge
Primarily an Observing Evening. If not clear then general discussion, help for those who require it.
Space Badge
The Women who put a Man on the Moon (SD)
A Year around the Sun (Beauty of the Cosmos) SD
Rocket science is thought to be hard because the maths of orbital mechanics gets in the way. This talk skips over the maths and looks at orbits, how spacecraft travel between planets and how they can park at Lagrange points.
Primarily an Observing Evening. If not clear then general discussion, help for those who require it.
The Women who put a Man on the Moon (SD)