Tech | August 13, 2010 | 1 comment

Citizen Scientists Make First Deep Space Discovery With Einstein@Home

source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/citizen-scientist-pulsars/

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While your computer is running idle, it could be finding new pulsars and black holes in deep space.Three volunteers running the distributed computing program Einstein@Home have discovered a new pulsar in the data from the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope. Their computers, one in Iowa (owned by two people) and one in Germany, downloaded and processed the data that found the pulsar, which is in the Milky Way, approximately 17,000 light years from Earth in constellation Vulpecula.
LINK : http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/citizen-scientist-pulsars/
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