Archive for 'Virtual Observatory Tools'

Apr201015

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Another door opens for SETI

Another door opens for SETI

Let’s start explaining the title, what is SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)? It’s a very serious initiative to respond a fundamental question for us humans: Are We Alone? The project uses telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such events do not occur naturally, so a detection would provide strong evidence of extraterrestrial […]

Jan201014

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Data mining: harvesting the depths of astronomy

Data mining: harvesting the depths of astronomy

Long lost are the situations in which you had to observe a star or a galaxy with a telescope and mark all your observation on paper. Today you don’t even see the telescope or satellite, and you are even of a different continent than the instrument of observation. You only have your personal computer and […]