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Science@ESA: Episode 6: Charting the Galaxy - from Hipparcos to Gaia

Date: 15 October 2009
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In this sixth episode of the Science@ESA vodcast series Rebecca Barnes discovers the motions of the stars, learns how astronomers measure their distances and looks at the new European mission that will really get to grips with our place in the Universe.

You can download the script for this vodcast here.

The vodcast is also available in these languages: French, German , Italian, Spanish.

Last Update: 1 September 2019