European Space Agency renews Lenovo deal as it aims to map the Milky Way

Dan Worth
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Mapping a billion stars requires a lot of compute power

The European Space Agency (ESA) has renewed a deal with Lenovo to support an attempt to map almost one billion stars in the Milky Way. The ESA began the Gaia Project in 2013 to try to build up t...

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