Apr 02, 2015
Hey guys! Check out this website where you can nominate or vote for names that are given to the surface features of Pluto and it's moon Charon. It won't be long before NASA's New Horizons will be flying past them and providing us with our first high resolution look at the surfaces!
We derive the ages and other properties of stars by combining theoretical astrophysics, data from the best telescopes, Bayesian statistical analyses, and advanced computational techniques. We have developed an algorithm that allows us to combine the age information from multiple white dwarf stars to derive the age of our Galaxy. We request funds to support converting our algorithm to high-performance software code. From this we will both derive the age of the Galaxy as well as make our code publicly available for other research groups.
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