New Collection of Stars, Not Born in Our Galaxy, Discovered in Milky Way
July 08, 2020
July 08, 2020
AUSTIN, Texas, July 8 -- The University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center issued the following news release on July 7:
Astronomers can go their whole career without finding a new object in the sky. But for Lina Necib, a postdoctoral scholar in theoretical physics at Caltech, the discovery of a cluster of stars in the Milky Way, but not born of the Milky Way, came early - with a little help from supercomputers, the Gaia space observatory, and new deep learning meth . . .
Astronomers can go their whole career without finding a new object in the sky. But for Lina Necib, a postdoctoral scholar in theoretical physics at Caltech, the discovery of a cluster of stars in the Milky Way, but not born of the Milky Way, came early - with a little help from supercomputers, the Gaia space observatory, and new deep learning meth . . .