The era of petabyte and exabyte astronomical surveys is rapidly approaching. How will we store all this data and ensure its longevity for future decades of astronomers? Check out Dr. Alex Szalay’s plenary talk at #AAS233 to find out!
Hint: It’s not mitochondria.
A spectrum is worth a thousand pictures. But all-sky spectra? Well, I bet they are worth many many thousands of pictures — introducing SDSS-V.
In the study of structure formation in the universe, the ‘missing satellite galaxies’ problem is said to be almost solved. Is today’s paper the final nail in the coffin?
There’s lots of them out there. The answer to some of the mysteries of the universe could be hidden in their numbers.
Abundance analysis, or chemical tagging, is widely use to identify stars with a common birth. But is a similar abundance alone enough to identify siblings? Can’t stars have doppelgangers?