HTTP:: Discovering Random Astrophysical Phenomena
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Over the next decade, as new-generation telescopes will be built around the world, scientists will need to keep an eye on all datasets that come out of these machines, interpret them, analyze them, and then draw conclusions based on them. But everyone agrees that this is a fantasy, something that will be impossible to do in reality. The amounts of data collected by the new observatories will be massive, summing up to quadrillions of bytes. Only an automated program will be able to peer through all the data, and draw conclusions based on them, scientists say. This has been the case for many years now, ever since modern telescopes have become common. Observation arrays, such as radio telescopes, also produce massive amounts of data, which are then deciphered jointly by humans and computers. But astronomers say that, in the near future, humans will no longer play a part in the process. They advocate the necessity of designing new types of software that could not only peer thro!
ugh the information at high speeds and discover new exoplanets and black holes (among other things), but also find more widespread, general astrophysical phenomena that were never before observed. This would require exquisite pattern-recognition abilities in the pieces of software.“The amount of data [fr...
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