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Shrinking 'ridiculous' data sets to manageable size
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May 14, 2009 |
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Two decades ago a renowned statistician described a computer data set of 1 billion bytes as "huge" and 10 trillion bytes as "ridiculous."
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Born from the wind -- unique multi-wavelength portrait of star birth
Oct 08, 2008 |
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Telescopes on the ground and in space have teamed up to compose a colourful image that offers a fresh look at the history of the star-studded region NGC 346. This new, ethereal portrait, in which different ...
Two Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres found -- but they're stars not planets
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick and Kiel University have discovered two earth sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres - however there is a bit of a disappointing snag for anyone ...
Galaxies Demand a Stellar Recount
Aug 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, astronomers have gone about their business of studying the cosmos with the assumption that stars of certain sizes form in certain quantities. Like grocery stores selling melons ...
Frantic activity revealed in dusty stellar factories
Jan 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain) used NACO, a sharp-eyed adaptive optics instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), to study the fine detail in ...
Star-Forming Backbone of a Massive Structure in the Early Universe Photographed
May 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a special camera known as AzTEC developed by a research team led by Grant Wilson, astronomy professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an international research group has ...
Watching a Supernova Come and Go
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Supernovae, the explosive deaths of massive stars, disburse into space all of the chemical elements that were spawned inside the progenitor stars.
Computer scientists scale 'layer 2' data center networks to 100,000 ports and beyond
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 17, 2009 |
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University of California, San Diego computer scientists have created software that they hope will lead to data centers that logically function as single, plug-and-play networks that will scale to the massive ...
A nimbus rises in the world of cloud computing
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 08, 2009 |
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Cloud computing is a hot topic in the technology world these days. Even if you're not a tech-phile, chances are if you've watched a lot of television or skimmed a business magazine, you've heard someone talking ...
Massive Gas Cloud Speeding Toward Collision With Milky Way
Jan 11, 2008 |
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A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is speeding toward a collision with our Milky Way Galaxy, and when it hits -- in less than 40 million years -- it may set off a spectacular burst of stellar fireworks.
Building-block process in evolution of massive galaxy clusters revealed
Apr 05, 2006 |
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A study of the Universe’s most massive galaxy clusters has shown that mergers play a vital role in their evolution.
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