Flight to Gaia, the Hyades and out of our Milky Way
Channel: Stefan Jordan
Date: 2018-04-25

Switch on subtitles (CC) in English, German, Spanish, or Catalan! This is a video is  starting over Europe on April 25, 12:00 CEST, flying to Gaia, showing Gaia's scanning law over one year, showing the known open clusters, moving to the Hyades, letting the stars in the Hyades move over 500,000 years, moving back to the present time, moving through Gaia's star catalogue out of the Milky Way.

The video is based on Gaia's second star catalogue published on April 25, 2018 and was created with the program Gaia Sky.

Subtitles (CC) for a more detailed description are available in English, German, Spanish and Catalan.

Download of  Gaia Sky: https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/ou...
Home page: https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/ou...

Astronomisches Rechen-Institut - Univeristy of Heidelberg
http://ari.uni-heidelberg.de

With support by DLR und BMWi
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