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Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey, using one of the world’s most powerful digital cameras, have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near our Milky Way galaxy. Signs indicate that they—like the objects found by the same team earlier this year—are likely dwarf satellite galaxies, the smallest and closest known form of galaxies.
Read more at http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/august-2015/dark-energy-survey-finds-more-celestial-neighbors New article from Symmetry Magazine about our trillion particle simulations:
A small team of astrophysicists and computer scientists have created some of the highest-resolution snapshots yet of a cyber version of our own cosmos. Called the Dark Sky Simulations, they’re among a handful of recent simulations that use more than 1 trillion virtual particles as stand-ins for all the dark matter that scientists think our universe contains. They’re also the first trillion-particle simulations to be made publicly available, not only to other astrophysicists and cosmologists to use for their own research, but to everyone. The Dark Sky Simulations can now be accessed through a visualization program in coLaboratory, a newly announced tool created by Google and Project Jupyter that allows multiple people to analyze data at the same time. Read more at http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/august-2014/open-access-to-the-universe
New article from symmetry magazine about the DESI Survey --
Maps do more than tell us where we are. Rich with information elegantly arranged, they give us a way to assimilate our vast world. The clearer the map, the more confidently we set out to explore, looking for something it doesn’t show. In a few years, scientists will come out with a new map of a third of the sky, one that will go deeper and bring that depth into sharper focus than any survey has yet achieved. It will pinpoint in three dimensions the locations of 25 million galaxies and quasars, pulling back the curtains on the history of the universe’s expansion over more than half of the age of the universe. Read more at http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/april-2014/scientists-to-map-universe-in-3-d-hd |
TidbitsNews, papers, and tidbits from Risa and her Galaxy Formation and Cosmology Group at KIPAC / Stanford University. Archives
August 2018
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