How do we navigate through the stars? Can we develop a Google Maps for space? Anthony Brown explains how the ESA Gaia mission is mapping our Milky Way.

Credits and thanks to: ESA and NASA for imagery and animations in this talk. Recording studio sponsor @ University of Applied Sciences Leiden. Graphic design by Esmé Postma, Ire Oyekan and Sheila Herron. Intro music Birds by Scandinavianz | [ Ссылка ] Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License [ Ссылка ] Anthony Brown is an Associate Professor at the Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, and has been involved in the European Space Agency Gaia Mission since 1997.

He currently chairs the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium, a team of about 450 European astronomers and IT specialists who are in charge of turning the raw measurements from the Gaia spacecraft into a three-dimensional map of over one billion stars in our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

Anthony is very broadly interested in the astronomical research that can be done with the aid of Gaia data, from studies of our own solar system to understanding the formation history of the Milky Way.

Anthony grew up on the island of Aruba and moved to Leiden in the Netherlands to pursue studies in astronomy. He obtained his PhD from Leiden University in 1996 and he has held multiple postdoc positions all over the world. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]

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