We used to think that all stellar nurseries across every galaxy must look more or less the same, but this survey has revealed that this is not the case, and stellar nurseries change from place to place, lead author Adam Leroy, associate professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University, said in a statement. These nurseries are responsible for building galaxies and making planets, and they re just an essential part in the story of how we got here.
This five-year survey was tackled using a small segment of the cosmos called the nearby universe, due to its convenient location near our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers engaged in the study employed the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope sitting in Chile s Atacama Desert for this new mapping endeavor.
Theoretical physicists at Goethe University Frankfurt have analysed data from the black hole M87 as part of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration to test Albert Einstein s theory of general relativity. According to the tests, the size of the shadow from M87 is in excellent agreement being from a black hole in general relativity, but sets constraints on the properties of black holes in other theories.
The Study of Big Data: How CLAS Researchers Use Data Science
UConn researchers are using big data to attack issues of climate, space, genetics and public health
Associate Professor of Physics Cara Battersby talks to attendees at a solar eclipse viewing on Horsebarn Hill in 2017. Her work uses high-performance computing to understand astronomical questions (Bri Diaz/UConn Photo). Copy Link
When Anji Seth was in graduate school, she never thought of herself as a big data scientist.
She just went to her engineering and atmospheric science classes, did the computer programming that was required, and learned as she went.
“All of my classes required some kind of programming – it was a natural thing,” she notes. “But we didn’t train specifically on it – we just did it. Climate science is one of the original ‘big data’ problems, but we didn’t always call it that.”
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