Acadia Night Sky Festival presents: Dr. Jackie Faherty

Description

The Gaia space telescope recently released its second catalog of over 1.3 billion stellar distances, which is helping astronomers map the Milky Way. Dr. Faherty will share cutting-edge visualizations of the most spectacular astronomical dataset of our time - a virtual tour hundreds of millions of stars. You will be immersed in the measured motions and distances of over a billion stars.