Astronomy question

War Arrow · Post by **War Arrow** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:43 pm

Definitely so.

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:26 pm

Beagle wrote:Here's one for you FM.
http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/scie ... _2008.html

For this, they will need new ways to keep track of data about giant sets of objects, with varied observation conditions. Call it "astroinformatics?"

Going to be very interesting.

Interesting indeed! Thanks for that one Beags. Actually I am a data hound. I currently maintain a stellar database of over 37 million stars.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:47 pm

I currently maintain a stellar database of over 37 million stars.

I had a feeling...

War Arrow · Post by **War Arrow** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:21 am

Forum Monk wrote: I currently maintain a stellar database of over 37 million stars.

F**k!

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:46 am

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... rings.html

Astronomers have found three galaxies in a never before seen perfect alignment—a discovery that may help scientists better understand the mysterious dark matter and dark energy believed to dominate the universe

This is a little OT from the OP, but it's still astronomy.