Tag Archive for 'Supercomputer'

This view of Europa was captured by JunoCam during Juno’s close flyby on September 29, 2022. Citizen scientist Björn Jónsson processed the view to create this image. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Björn Jónsson / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Rotation of Europa’s Ice Shell May Be Controlled By Dynamics of Subsurface Ocean: Study

Mar 14, 2023 by News Staff

The subsurface ocean of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is heated from below via tidal heating and radioactive decay of the rocky interior, while being cooled...

An artist’s impression of a dwarf galaxy. Image credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Astronomers Use Distributed Supercomputer to Reconstruct Ancient Dwarf Galaxy

Feb 18, 2022 by News Staff

Using the 1.5 PetaFLOPS MilkyWay@home distributed supercomputer, astronomers have calculated the original mass and size of a dwarf galaxy that was shredded...