Finding exoplanets at the racetrack
Pale Blue Pod
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The Mystery of Sequence
When Gaia DR2 was released, like a hundred different astronomers descended upon New York City because the center for computational astrophysics had a Gaia DR2 hackathon. As soon as the data gets released, dozens of astronomers in a room download the data and just start doing science. And then they they do that for a whole day. It's just like a it's a party to them. I would expect you can mark your calendars in 2026 whenever this fourth data release comes out. They're going to have another hackathon and those fuckers are going to be finding so many exoplanets right away. I know it. I can just feel it in my bones.
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