Untangling the Milky Way's evolution through big-data astronomy - Space.com
6/23/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by Tereza Pultarova
by Tereza Pultarova
The Gaia database currently contains 1 petabyte of data, which is equivalent to the data capacity of 200,000 DVDs.
Untangling the evolution of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is a challenge similar to mapping the human genome, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). ESA's galaxy mapper, Gaia, takes trillion… [+7797 chars]
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