# Dynamics and history of the Milky Way

- Institution: CERN
- Department: EuCAPT Virtual Colloquia
- Speaker: Amina Helmi
- Year: 2025
- Language: English
- Subjects: History
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3022587)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Our understanding of the Milky Way and its constituents is undergoing a revolutionary change driven primarily by the Gaia space mission, and which is further reinforced when combined with spectroscopic surveys from the ground. In this colloquium, I will highlight a few of the results stemming from the analysis of the truly spectacular Gaia data releases. Specifically, I will discuss what we have learned about the assembly history of the Milky Way thus far. I will also present some intriguing findings regarding its dynamics and our current efforts to place the Milky Way in a proper cosmological context.

## Lectures

1. [Dynamics and history of the Milky Way](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3022587/cc03ae8e49dd), 1 h 5 min (CERN's player)