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2024-07-10 Presentations of Gaia Symposium at EAS available now

Last week the annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society was held in Italy. The symposium "Gaia: The (TWO) Billion Star Galaxy Census: from the Solar System to our Milky Way and beyond" was well received and contained many interesting talks. The presentation slides of the talks, as well as links to the posters, are now available from the GREAT wiki page.

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