The Astronomical Event Search Engine

eldavojohn writes "Google has signed on with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project that will construct a powerful telescope in Chile by 2013. Google's part will be to 'develop a search engine that can process, organize, and analyze the voluminous amounts of data coming from the instrument's data streams in real time. The engine will create "movie-like windows" for scientists to view significant space events.' Google's been successful on turning its search technology on several different media and realms. Will they be successful with helping scientists tag and catalog events in our universe?" The telescope will generate 30 TB of data a night, for 10 years, from a 3-gigapixel CCD array.

Re:3/4 LoC a night

[Ingolfke]

No human can look at that much data, and google's experience indexing the web seems only tangentially related.

Google's PHd's and big thinkers could certainly play a part here. Google is about solving problems with large chunks of constantly changing data that has patterns and creating systems to identify and use those patterns. The web is simply a way for Google to apply the model.

Re:+5 Informative

[VitaminB52]

The telescope will generate 30 TB of data a night

That's a lot of info.

No, that's a lot of data. Info is the result of analysing the data.