In this sweeping episode we talk to Anthony Brown, Chair of the Gaia data processing and analysis consortium and researcher at Leiden Observatory - about the huge piles of data this mission is collecting, and the insights its giving us about our own cosmic backyard.

==SHOW NOTES==

Impact of meteor on moon during eclipse

Blue origin NS-10 launch and landing

Gaia app

Types of objects found by Gaia

Field of view of Gaia

Gaia sky v1.0

Galaxymap.org

Gaia archive

Universe sandbox

Space engine

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==CREDITS==

Space Cowboys is made by Tyse Roes (http://thijsroes.nl/ ) and Herbert Blankesteijn ( http://blankesteijn.com/) in collaboration with BNR Nieuwsradio in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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