A panorama of the centre of the Milky Way. Image Credit: ESO/S. Brunier

Podcast: The mission to map the Milky Way

This episode we discuss ESA's Gaia mission to map 1.7 billion stars in our Galaxy.

Iain Todd

Published: October 5, 2016 at 11:00 am

This episode we speak to Prof Gerry Gilmore, principal investigator for the UK participation in a mission to map 1.7 billion stars in our Galaxy.

The team also discuss strange stars, the Stellarium online planetarium, noctilucent clouds and highlights from BBC Sky at Night Magazine's June '18 issue.

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Iain Todd

Science journalist

Iain Todd is BBC Sky at Night Magazine's Content Editor. He fell in love with the night sky when he caught his first glimpse of Orion, aged 10.
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