He helped propel citizen science forward with his astronomy projects and collaborations By Hub staff report / Published May 24, 2021
Jan Vincent Vandenberg, a computer scientist and systems architect who was connected to Johns Hopkins University for 30 years, passed away on May 13 after an eight-year battle with colon cancer. He was 48.
Vandenberg is known for helping propel citizen science forward as a key collaborator of Galaxy Zoo, an online project offering unprecedented public access to astronomy images, and as a core member of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey team, working on the word s most ambitious and detailed astronomical survey to date. The cosmos has lost a brilliant mind and a kind soul, Vandenberg s longtime friend Phil Tang, a former vice provost for academic services at Johns Hopkins, told
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Space Mysteries: An international team of astronomers is on the hunt for objects that should be impossible.
Could the missing stars be a completely new phenomenon?
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Stars don t just vanish or do they? For thousands of years, astronomers accepted the idea that the lights in the sky were fixed and unchanging. Even when it became clear that these lights were actually physical objects like the sun, one of the key assumptions for astrophysicists has been that they go through major changes very slowly, on timescales of millions or billions of years.
And when the most massive stars of all which are many times heavier than the sun do go through sudden and cataclysmic changes as they reach the ends of their lives, their passing is marked by the unmissable cosmic beacon of a
To Map the Universe, Astrophysicists Launch Largest Sky Survey Yet
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The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is installed on the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope on Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, AZ.
Newswise Cambridge, MA In 1983, astrophysicists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian(CfA) released a cosmic map using 2,400 galaxies. Now, CfA scientists are aiming to map 30 million.
In the largest quest yet to map the universe, an international team of researchers is using DESI, or the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, to survey the skies. Observations officially began today, May 17, at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona; the mission will last five years with the goal of mapping 30 million galaxies.