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Image from simulation of a Chelyabinsk-ike asteroid

NASA Leverages HPC for Asteroid Defense

09.04.18 – NASA has been actively working to understand and mitigate the risks posed by asteroids for a decade. Much of this work currently takes place in California as part of the Asteroid Threat Assessment Project (ATAP) at NASA Ames, using the Pleiades supercomputer. Read More

Image from model showing location of the Long Valley supervolcano. Credit: Flinders et al, 2018

Why Do Galaxies Start Out as Cosmic Pickles?

08.22.18 – A geometric mystery from deep space is sharpening the computer models used to understand the complex history of the universe and to peer into its far future. Modeling efforts including the Bolshoi-Planck simulation of large-scale structure run on our Pleiades system, NASA's most powerful supercomputer. Read More

Image from model showing location of the Long Valley supervolcano. Credit: Flinders et al, 2018

240 Cubic Miles Of Magma Was Just Discovered Beneath California's Supervolcano

08.16.18 – Geologists from the U.S. Geological Survey’s California Volcano Observatory used seismic tomography to measure the Long Valley Caldera, one of the largest supervolcanoes in the world. Running the data through NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer, the researchers were able to map the reservoir of magma beneath the caldera and estimate the likelihood of a supereruption. Read More

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New and Improved Way to Find Baby Planets

06.14.18 – New work from an international team of astronomers used archival radio telescope data to develop a new method for finding very young extrasolar planets. The research leveraged computing resources at the NAS facility. Finding more baby planets will help astronomers answer many outstanding questions about planet formation, including the process by which our own Solar System came into existence. Read More

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