The Little Books of Gaia

 

The Little Books of Gaia are A4-page-size summaries of the Gaia mission which can be folded into little booklets. They are available as PDFs. See printing and folding instructions below.
 
  TALES OF THE UNIVERSE
An introduction to astronomy for children (and the young at heart!)
PDF (199KB)
 
 

HISTORY OF ASTROMETRY: From Hipparchus to Gaia
What is astrometry? Why do we want to measure the distances to the stars? What techniques have astronomers used for this?
PDF (197KB)
 
  THE GALAXY IN WHICH WE LIVE
How Gaia will revolutionise our understanding of astronomy and, in particular, how it will reveal the origin and evolution of our Milky Way Galaxy.
PDF (170KB)
 
  A 3-D TOUR OF OUR GALAXY
A three-dimensional journey to well-known stars and clusters in our Galaxy.
PDF (138KB)
 
  EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT GAIA!
An answer to all those questions about Gaia that you wanted to ask, but…
PDF (200KB)
 
  THE SEARCH FOR PLANETS
Gaia will find enormous numbers of other planets outside our Solar System. This booklet explains how.
PDF (152KB)
 
Folding instructions: This PDF file explains how to fold your A4 pages to create a "Little Book".
 
Printing tips: Make sure that the page format is set to A4 before printing the booklets! Postscript level 2 usually gives the best results.
 
PDF files can be read using Acrobat Reader, available here.
 
These booklets were originally prepared by A. Colorado-McEvoy (1999), and have been revised in 2013.