Automation offers big solution to big data in astronomy
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 13:30
in Astronomy & Space
The Square Kilometer Array, a radio telescope planned for Africa and Australia, will have an unprecedented ability to deliver data -- lots of data points, with lots of details -- on the location and properties of stars, galaxies and giant clouds of hydrogen gas. Scientists have now developed a new, faster approach to analyzing all that data.