“ How much information can you extract from a single pixel? That’s a key question for exoplanet studies as we look to the day when advanced telescopes can actually see a planet orbiting another star. But a single point of light seems to offer scant value, which is where Enric Pallé (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias) and colleagues go to work. They’ve been looking at how that single pixel changes over time, and what we might glean from it in terms of planetary details.
Wasted Nothing
byproducts of interconnected turing machines.
December 24, 2007