Quick Facts
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Subject: |
science |
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Level: |
primary, lower secondary |
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Languages: |
Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Magyar, Nederlands |
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support materials |
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PDFs |
The Little Books of Gaia are A4-page-size summaries that cover different aspects of the Gaia mission and which can be folded into little booklets.
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Tales of the Universe – an introduction to astronomy. |
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History of astrometry – What is astrometry? Why do we want to measure the distances to the stars? What techniques have astronomers used for this? |
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The galaxy in which we live – How Gaia will revolutionise our understanding of astronomy and, in particular, how it will reveal the origin and evolution of our Milky Way galaxy. |
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A 3-D tour of our galaxy – A three-dimensional journey to well-known stars and clusters in our galaxy. |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Gaia! – An answer to all those questions about Gaia that you wanted to ask. |
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The search for planets – Gaia will find enormous numbers of other planets outside our Solar System. This booklet explains how. |
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English