Since 1992, when NASA launched the Kepler space telescope, there have been 755 planets discovered that orbit their very own stars (extrasolar planets). NASA suspects there are a few thousand more lurking in the data they haven’t yet been able to analyze.More than 90 percent of the world’s data has been generated since the Kepler mission was launched. In fact, […]
Unlike amateur astronomy, which mostly involves pointing and looking, the data from high-level astronomy tend to come in the form of abstract curves and spiked graphs. As a result, the data often needs to be analyzed before scientists even know what it is they’re looking at.
NASA’s Kepler launched with a mission to find planets outside our solar system, but it’s […]
SMembers of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab’s Data Science community — including Rob Witoff, Tomas Soderstrom, and Andrew Hart — are here to answer our questions about using data, visualization, modeling, and just what we might be able to do with it all in space.Top image: A visualization from the IT data science team analyzing education & diplomas across JPL. The […]
