Computer Science Tools Flood Astronomy with Data

purkinje writes: Astronomy is getting a major data-gathering boost from computer science, as new tools like real-time telescopic observations and digital sky surveys provide astronomers with an unprecedented amount of information--the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, for instance, generates 30 terabytes of data each night. Using informatics and other data-crunching approaches, astronomers--with the help of computer science--may be able to get at some of the biggest, as-yet-unanswerable cosmological questions.

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