Originally broadcast August 14. Dr. Elmé Breedt is working at the University of Cambridge on the Gaia Science Alerts project. Now in its eighth year in orbit, the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite has already had a transformational impact on astronomy. Apart from its main goal of creating a 3-dimensional map of the Milky Way, Gaia is also discovering thousands of new objects through its transient survey, known as Gaia Science Alerts. In this webinar, Dr. Breedt discusses what goes on behind the scenes to run a survey like this, and some of the interesting transients observed so far.

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