A stellar nursery for young astronomers

Achievements

One spacecraft, five years or more, and over a billion stars - ESA's Gaia mission set out in 2013 to produce a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. It will discover many new celestial objects in the process and provide astronomers with clues as to how our galaxy formed. An EU-funded training network involved 17 early stage researchers in this mission.

Date:

07/07/2016 - 19:04

The Great-ITN project allowed a group of young scientists to start their research careers on a high. It enabled successful applicants inspired by Gaia to enrol in PhD programmes at the participating universities and supported them with extensive training and complementary mentoring.

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GREAT

Project:

Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training - ITN

See also:

CORDIS

Project website:

http://great.ast.cam.ac.uk/great-itn/