Mission to Map 1.7 Billion Stars | The Space Show

Launched in 2013, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope is in the process of creating the most detailed star chart in the history of astronomy. With unequaled precision and detail, the movements of 1.7 billion stars are now available to scientists and the public. Gaia scientist Timo Prusti speaks with Motherboard's Becky Ferreira about this groundbreaking mission to map the heavens.

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[dragonfastback]

Thanks for posting this. Gaia had dropped off my radar and your post has rekindled my interest. And kudos to the ESA for sharing the data - heartening to see that spirit of open knowledge still survives.

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I'm liking every video from your channel. Keep going folks.

[larrybuzbee]

Here's how to exponentially expand the Gaia dataset; GaiaX1K. Wait what?
SpaceX recently announced that it's Starlink V2 sattelites will have facilities to accomodate "small additional payloads". Mount very small powerfull camera/telescopes on the outward facing surface of many (+- 10k) sattelites in many different orbits. Given sufficient data management, many little eyes are equivalent to a few much larger ones looking in all directions at once, continuously.

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