Extra: Data & Discoveries from ESA's Gaia Mission

This podcast extra episode comes from this year's Big Bang Fair
and Jeni & Paul grabbed an interview with a Gaia mission data
scientist to talk data and the efforts taken in the
less-glamorous, but absolutely critical, background to provide us
with the discoveries and refinements we crave from the European
Space Agency's latest space-based astrometry mission.


So while Paul and Jeni were there as the Sirius Space Agency
explaining the science behind a mission into space on the Star
Stage, they spoke to a post-doctoral researcher at Cambridge
University's Data Processing Centre for the Gaia Mission.


In this interview we bring you:


the timelines to data capture, recovery, capture and analysis

the rapid pulication of results from Gaia data

a surprising discovery about the Milky Way's satellite
galaxies - the Magellanic Clouds

a new star cluster found hiding behind a star