Classroom Aid - Gaia Data Release 2

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In this 2018 review we’ll see the northern lights on Saturn: a new asteroid landing close to Earth; the ghost of Cassiopeia; new information on the stars at the center of our galaxy; and more. We’ll also cover the second GAIA data release on 1.7 billion stars. We’ll then go beyond the galaxy to see a wide variety of galaxies and galaxy clusters. We’ll see a single star 9 billion light years away.

Our deep dive this year is a close look at Brown Dwarfs: what are they; how do they form; and where do they fit between high mass planets and low mass stars; and we’ll take a look at a few of them.

Music

@01:59 Binge, Ronald: Elizabethan Serenade - from the album A Calendar of Classics - A 12 CD Set of Romantic Classics for Every Month of the Year, 2007

@0255 Brahms, Johannes: Waltz Op. 39, No. 15 – from the album Meditation: Classical Relaxation, 2010

@0517 Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival, Overture - Moscow Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sergei Skripka; from the album Rimsky-Korsakov: Orchestral Works, 2009

@20:51 Offenbach, Jacques: - Orpheus in Hades Overture, from the album Offenbach: Gaite Parisienne; The Tales of Hoffmann: Intermezzo conducted by Arthur Fiedler, 1995

@28:28 Puccini: Nessun dorma Violin Fantasy on Turandot – from the album The Best of Vanessa-Mae conducted by Viktor Fedotov, 2003

@32:32 Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: The Seasons - June (Barcarolle) Tchaikovsky; with Jenö Jando; from the album Meditation: Classical Relaxation, 2010