Aussie SkyMapper Telescope to “open new windows of exploration”
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What do the universe, open source software, a 12,000-core supercomputer, a cool $2.5 million of high-grade silicon and one of the country’s largest data sets have in common? They all underpin a five-year Australian initiative to map and study the observable universe from the southern hemisphere.
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What do the universe, open source software, a 12,000-core supercomputer, a cool $2.5 million of high-grade silicon and one of the country’s largest data sets have in common? They all underpin a five-year Australian initiative to map and study the observable universe from the southern hemisphere.
The story begins back in 2003 when the Great Melbourne Telescope was destroyed during the bush fires of January that year.
From the ashes rose the SkyMapper observatory, based in the Siding Spring Observatory at the safer central-west NSW location of Coonabarabran and tasked with scanning the night skies to create the Southern Sky Survey... Full Story |
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