Gaia in the UK

Taking the Galactic Census

Gaia videos

Acceleration of Solar System

Solar system acceleration with Gaia EDR3
Video showing Solar System acceleration detected with the Gaia Early Data Release 3 data.
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Movement of stars - star trails

Star trails of stars in solar neighbourhood
The animation shows in short steps the displacements of 40 000 stars within 100 parsec distance from the Sun.
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Gaia scanning the sky

14 month of Gaia scannning the sky
A visualisation of how Gaia scanned the sky during its first 14 months of operations, between July 2014 and September 2015.
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Gaia's astronomical revolution

Gaia's astronomical revolution
This video presents scientific impact of the first two Gaia data releases.
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Gaia Alerts detections over time

Gaia alerts on Gaia DR2 sky map

A movie showing Gaia Alerts detections over time on the Gaia Data Release 2 sky map.

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Motion of variable stars in the Gaia Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

variable stars motion in H-R diagram
A video, made using Gaia Data Release 2 data, showing the motion of variable stars in the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram.
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360° view of Gaia's sky

Gaia sky
Explore Gaia's all-sky view of our Milky Way Galaxy and neighbouring galaxies in 360 degrees.
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Parallax and proper motion on the sky - 360° view

Gaia DR2 parallaxes and proper motions
A 360° animated view of the entire sky on 25 April 2018.
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Globular clusters and dwarf galaxies orbits

Orbits of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies
Globular clusters and dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, using Gaia Data Release 2 data.
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Gaia's first asteroid survey

Gaia's asteroid survey
Animated view of the 14 099 asteroids in our Solar System, as viewed by ESA’s Gaia satellite using information from the mission's second data release.
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