Tag: STARS

The bright lights of New York may prevent its inhabitants from seeing heavenly bodies at night, but inside Grand Central Station, New Yorkers can now star-gaze to their hearts' content. A group of electricians recently revamped a brilliant, LED-lit constellation display along the ornate ceiling of the Grand Central Terminal, giving new life to a tradition that was dangerously close to fading. ...

Hey, amateur astronomers, listen to this: A couple of at-home space nuts recently discovered a pulsar with a screensaver that uses idle PC time to process data collected from telescopes. By using Einstein@Home to 'donate' a PC's processors to the pursuit of science, the program harnesses thousands of willing computers, rather than one supercomputer, to analyze data. This helps on-the-clock ...

Once upon a time, Google had an insatiable appetite to log, index, categorize and make searchable every single imaginable thing on Earth –- nay, under the sun. But, that's no longer the case with today's announcement of Google Sky, which expands the company's God complex to now include everything ever created, period. Google Sky is a new mode within the Google Earth application. Google ...