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Housing and Development Newsletter These restrictions, driven purely by his own interests and desires, laid the foundation for a program that could be used by researchers around the world without a huge investment. “You can run it on a 4 GB laptop,” Paxton said. MESA uses a simple set of physics equations to model stars as spherical shells. Since spheres are symmetrical, the program can essentially use a 1-dimensional model to simulate a 3-dimensional object, greatly simplifying computational demands. Paxton designed MESA to be modular: built from semi-independent chunks that work togethe...

ESOblog Which role models inspired some of ESO’s astronomers and engineers and why The achievements and influence of these inspirational female role models in science and engineering To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we spoke to astronomers and engineers at ESO to find out who their female role model in science or engineering is and how they inspired them in their careers. We highlight those inspiring figures in this blog post. Margaret Burbidge " My favourite female role model is the astronomer Margaret Burbidge," says Paola Amico, a syste...