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Wed, 23 Oct
|Colershill Village Hall
Lecture - Dr George Seabroke - The Gaia Revolution Continues
Time & Location
23 Oct 2024, 20:00 – 22:00
Colershill Village Hall, Barracks Hill, Amersham, Coleshill, Amersham HP7 0LN, United Kingdom
About the Event
Gaia is a European Space Agency satellite that has been mapping individual stars in our Milky Way Galaxy since its launch in 2013. I will explain how its 3 trillion measurements of 2 billion stars is causing a revolution in astronomy. Science highlights will include the most recently discovered black hole (Gaia BH3) and how it relates to a personal historical coincidence.
About George
George obtained his Astrophysics PhD, "Probing the Milky Way galaxy through thick and thin (discs and halo) with the Correlation Radial Velocities (CORAVEL) and Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) surveys" from Cambridge in 2007, supervised by Gerry Gilmore and Wyn Evans. Ever since then he has been a post-doc funded by the UK Gaia grant. After his PhD, he joined the e2v centre for electronic imaging (CEI) at Brunel University. The CEI (and George) moved to the Open University in 2008. During this position, George modelled Gaia's…