Category Archives: telescopes

Flying across Galaxy Clusters with Google Earth: Deep Color Images from SDSS

Color images of distant, faint galaxies interesting to astronomers because the color enables them to estimate the redshift, a key astrophysical parameter in understanding how galaxies are organized in the Universe.  Recently, Jiangang Hao and Jim Annis of Fermilab co-added … Continue reading

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Data Processing for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)

The International Science Grid This Week has a very nice feature article on computing needs for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). The LSST telescope in Chile will generate the first high speed science grade movie of the sky.     … Continue reading

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