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Most space-based events take place on a timescale of millions of years, but some can take decades, years or just seconds, making archived data vital
Automation and increasing compute power are needed to handle the growing pool of astronomical data
Eileen Meyer, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Maryland, believes that big data is transforming our knowledge of space. Writing for Smithsonian, Meyer describes how thousands of...
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