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Gaia worksby measuring parallax. This is exactly the same wayyour eyes and brain work so...

Universe • S01E03 • 2021
Gaia works
by measuring parallax. This is exactly the same way
your eyes and brain work so you can tell
how far away something is because of the slight difference
in angle from this eye to that eye

Full Transcript

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Gaia works by measuring parallax.
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This is exactly the same way your eyes and brain work
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so you can tell how far away something is
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because of the slight difference in angle from this eye to that eye.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
64
Timestamp in Movie
00:53:52
Uploaded
May 25, 2025
Season
1
Episode
3
Genres
documentary
Production
Samsa Film,KeyFilm

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Professor Brian Cox journeys across the vastness of time and space revealing epic moments of sheer drama that changed the universe forever.
S01 • E02 Five, four, - Universe 00:06
Five, four,
S01 • E05 The pictures are remarkable. The trouble with Hubble is over. - Universe 00:05
The pictures are remarkable. The trouble with Hubble is over...
S01 • E03 And so, what we do with Gaia - Universe 00:13
And so, what we do with Gaia
S01 • E04 Youjust see fire. - Universe 00:06
Youjust see fire.
S01 • E01 Launch night, I was sick to my stomach. - Universe 00:04
Launch night, I was sick to my stomach.
S01 • E02 We had worked to get thousands of people to work together - Universe 00:06
We had worked to get thousands of people to work together
S01 • E01 Five, four, three, - Universe 00:08
Five, four, three,
S01 • E04 Columbia now has burned more than two million pounds of fuel - Universe 00:09
Columbia now has burned more than two million pounds of fuel
S01 • E05 It's really hard to remember what it was like - Universe 00:12
It's really hard to remember what it was like
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And that's how we do parallax. All it is is a big versi...
S01 • E01 Liftoff of the mighty Delta IV Heavy rocket - Universe 00:07
Liftoff of the mighty Delta IV Heavy rocket
S01 • E04 It's the largest telescope to ever be launched by the space shuttle. - Universe 00:05
It's the largest telescope to ever be launched by the s...
S01 • E02 It was so emotional to see the project they had worked on - Universe 00:11
It was so emotional to see the project they had worked on
S01 • E01 The spacecraft is the first that NASA has named after a living person, - Universe 00:10
The spacecraft is the first that NASA has named after a livi...
S01 • E03 The last data released from Gaia was in December 2020, - Universe 00:11
The last data released from Gaia was in December 2020,
S01 • E05 I think, any time I look at a Hubble image, - Universe 00:11
I think, any time I look at a Hubble image,
S01 • E04 SRB separation is confirmed. - Universe 00:11
SRB separation is confirmed.
S01 • E01 The Delta IV Heavy is a very slow rocket - Universe 00:11
The Delta IV Heavy is a very slow rocket
S01 • E02 Kepler was an immediate success, - Universe 00:09
Kepler was an immediate success,
S01 • E03 Most of the stars in the disk of the Milky Way - Universe 00:08
Most of the stars in the disk of the Milky Way