All Articles Tagged As: software

NASA Supercomputer Shows How Dust Rings Point to Exo-Earths (10/14/2008)

Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to detect. The research points to a new avenue in the search for habitable planets. ...> Full Article

Space age engineers to verify control software for future robotic inter-planetary missions (8/24/2008)

An international team of engineers is to develop mission-critical control software for future European robotic space missions ...> Full Article

LIDAR Imaging Detector Could Build 'Super Road Maps' of Planets and Moons (5/18/2008)

Effort could extend NASA science capabilities for planetary applications ...> Full Article

Team aims to search for Earth-like planets with Google's help (3/24/2008)

scientists are designing a satellite-based observatory that they say could for the first time provide a sensitive survey of the entire sky to search for planets outside the solar system that appear to cross in front of bright stars. The system could rapidly discover hundreds of planets similar to the Earth. ...> Full Article

Bumper Christmas for galaxy hunters (1/4/2008)

Armchair astronomers using the galaxyzoo.org website have identified over 500 overlapping galaxies in the local Universe when astronomers had previously only known of 20 such systems. ...> Full Article

From Molecules To The Milky Way: Dealing With The Data Deluge (11/12/2007)

Most people have a few gigabytes of files on their PC. In the next decade, astronomers expect to be processing 10 million gigabytes of data every hour from the Square Kilometre Array telescope. ...> Full Article

New deep space images of distant strip of sky to be available on Google Sky (10/7/2007)

A global project to map a distant strip of the universe is releasing its data today to scientists and the public to be used as part of Google Sky, a new feature of Google Earth. ...> Full Article

Astrophysicists predict most dangerous explosions (9/11/2007)

A team of astrophysicists at The University of Western Australia today announced results from a new computer program that predicts when potentially dangerous bursts of gamma radiation may hit our planet. ...> Full Article

Astronomers eager to add to Sky in Google Earth (9/8/2007)

Since Sky in Google Earth debuted two weeks ago to let the public explore the heavens from their computers, two University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have jumped in to populate Google's sky with the most recently discovered heavenly objects. ...> Full Article

Google brings the cosmos down to Earth (8/23/2007)

Imagine cruising the heavens from your desktop and seeing all the spectacular images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Exploding stars and faraway galaxies are just a mouse click away today through 'Sky in Google Earth'. ...> Full Article

Computer Program Makes Night Sky Searchable (7/29/2007)

Computer science PhD candidate Dustin Lang has embarked on his own Star Trek as part of astronometry.net, a collaboration between computer scientists at U of T and astronomers at New York University. ...> Full Article