What started as a relatively simple project for the Caltech Planet Finder Academy — a program that allows students to work on and experience real-world astronomy challenges — Matteo Paz began ...

The numbers arrived with the dispassion of a telemetry readout: 10.5 years of observations, 200 billion individual detections, a complete infrared survey of the entire sky. For more than a decade ...

NEOWISE is depicted in an artist’s concept in front of an image of the infrared sky that the mission captured. The string of red dots moving across the sky near the center of the image is Holda, the ...

By that time, Davy Kirkpatrick said, we were sneaking to 200 billion rows in the table of all of our individual detections we had made in the last ten years. The field of engineering usually ...