Google goes into space
On January 6, the first reports appeared in the American press that the search giant Google will take part in the abmicious project to build a giant telescope that allows a wide audience to observe asteroids, supernovae and other remote corners of our Universe.
The telescope, which will be located on Mount Cerro Pachon in Chile, should begin work in 2013. A feature of the device will be a constant photographing the visible part of the sky. At the same time, the resolution of the images will be 3 billion pixels (3.2 gigapixels) and overnight, “into the piggy bank of science” will fall to 30 TB of color images.
Google’s role in this project is more than responsible. The company collaborates in the development of a search engine capable of processing, organizing and analyzing in real time the entire volume of data received from the device.
The search giant has become one of 19 project participants, including the Brookhaven National Laboratory; Columbia University; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Johns Hopkins University; Stanford University; Princeton University; University of Pennsylvania; University of California Davis and University of California Irvine.
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The telescope, which will be located on Mount Cerro Pachon in Chile, should begin work in 2013. A feature of the device will be a constant photographing the visible part of the sky. At the same time, the resolution of the images will be 3 billion pixels (3.2 gigapixels) and overnight, “into the piggy bank of science” will fall to 30 TB of color images.
Google’s role in this project is more than responsible. The company collaborates in the development of a search engine capable of processing, organizing and analyzing in real time the entire volume of data received from the device.
The search giant has become one of 19 project participants, including the Brookhaven National Laboratory; Columbia University; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Johns Hopkins University; Stanford University; Princeton University; University of Pennsylvania; University of California Davis and University of California Irvine.
Related links in GoogleNews
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/1099/
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