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Roland Gesthuizen

Super telescope will overload computers › News in Science (ABC Science) - 3 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 06 May 11 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 06 May 11
     
    "Scientists admit they'll be forced to throw out valuable data because today's computers aren't powerful enough to process all the information that will be generated by a proposed new super telescope. The planned $2.3 billion dollar Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the largest and most sophisticated radio telescope ever built."
Gillian Light

Telescopic Text - 1 views

www.telescopictext.org

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shared by Gillian Light on 22 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Gillian Light on 22 Apr 11
     
    Update to the telescopic.text site - this one allows you to write your own telescopic text.
Roland Gesthuizen

Citizen Scientists Making Incredible Discoveries - NASA Science - 3 views

science.nasa.gov/...22apr_zooniverse

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • "Not only are people better than computers at detecting the subtleties that differentiate galaxies, they can do things computers can't do, like spot things that just look interesting,"
  • And the Zooniverse team has proven that the Zooites' classifications are as good as those by professional astronomers. "Their contributions are extremely important," says Lintott. "They're helping us learn how galaxies form and evolve. And they take their work seriously." But that doesn't prevent them from bringing a sense of adventure and just sheer fun to the research.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Apr 11
     
    nd now you can be the one to find it, thanks to Zooniverse, a unique citizen science website. Zooniverse volunteers, who call themselves "Zooites," are working on a project called Galaxy Zoo, classifying distant galaxies imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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