Claude-shaped science - Anthropic

The Roman Space Telescope realizes an idea conceived at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab. A Berkeley astronomer now leads a large group of scientists who hope to reap the benefits. NASA’s latest triumph, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, will be unique in dumping 1.4 terabytes of data onto the internet every day with a clear message to astronomers and citizen scientists alike: Have at it! That’s where UC Berkeley’s Jessica Lu comes in. She and David Weinberg of Ohio State University have created a collaboration of scientists — nearly a thousand and growing — that has been meeting regularly for the past 18 months to determine the most efficient way to digest this daily deluge and mine it for new science.

NASA's latest triumph, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, will be unique in dumping 1.4 terabytes of data onto the internet every day with a clear message to astronomers and citizen scientists alike: Have at it! That's where UC Berkeley's Jessica Lu comes in. She and David Weinberg of Ohio State University have created a collaboration of scientists - nearly a thousand and growing - that has been meeting regularly for the past 18 months to determine the most efficient way to digest this daily deluge and mine it for new science. "Roman is very different from all of our previous space telescopes," said Lu, a Berkeley associate professor of astronomy. "The telescope takes the data, and within 48 hours it's available to the entire world. As a result, we're planning to do science differently as well. The Roman Science Collaboration is a group of 900 astronomers that are interested in working together collectively to get out the highest-impact discoveries from the survey data.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher Isaiah Santistevan led the development of three-dimensional simulations exploring how a nuclear device could deflect or disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth. Credit: Blaise Douros/LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers are developing three-dimensional simulations to examine how a nuclear device could be used to deflect or potentially disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth.

Milky Way’s first microblazar candidate sits 12,000 light-years away, offering a rare ground-level lab for studying relativistic jetsA black hole 12,000 light-years away is firing a jet of plasma almost directly toward Earth. At that distance, no known or expected danger to Earth has been identified by the researchers or the institutions involved. What astronomers have actually found is rarer and more interesting than a threat. Researchers have identified IRAS 18293-0941 as a compelling candidate for the Milky Way’s first microblazar, a class of object that gives astrophysicists a close-up laboratory for studying some of the most violent physics in the galaxy. What Astronomers FoundThe discovery centers on a binary system whose black hole expels plasma jets at close to three-quarters the speed of light, pointed almost directly toward Earth. The system pairs a hot, massive star with a black hole that completes a full orbit roughly every 11.38 days. Material drawn from the companion star feeds the black hole, and some of that matter gets expelled outward as opposing jets traveling at approximately three-quarters the speed of light. Terminology matters here.