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NOIRLab noirlab2124: New Initiative to Help Unravel Cosmic Mysteries with Big Data — Open-source software will transform astronomers’ tools to analyze big data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory. An expansive, multi-year collaboration will create new software to analyze the datasets from the upcoming Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time. The effort, led by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington, will enable large-scale science fueled ...

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New Initiative to Help Unravel Cosmic Mysteries with Big Data — Open-source software will transform astronomers’ tools to analyze big data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory

25 Aug. 2021 — NOIRLab Organization Release noirlab2124

An expansive, multi-year collaboration will create new software to analyze the datasets from the upcoming Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time. The effort, led by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington, will enable large-scale science fueled by the new data. The Community Science and Data Center at NSF's NOIRLab will collaborate with the team to make the software freely available to the entire astrophysics community.

The release, images and videos are available on:
https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2124/

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25 Aug. 2021

NOIRLab Announcements

Fellowship Funded by the John Templeton Foundation to Address Big Data — First cross-disciplinary fellowship program to tackle data from massive Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at Vera C. Rubin Observatory

25 Aug. 2021 - ann21029

Just as an enormous influx of big data is poised to transform the field of astronomy and astrophysics, a new fellowship program is poised to take advantage of the opportunity. ...