Tag: Simulations

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  June 5, 2024Black Holes, Celestial Events, Cosmology, Dark Energy, Education, Outreach, People, Simulations, Uncategorized

  Episode 71: Dark Side of the Universe

  In this milestone episode of The Cosmic Savannah, hosts Tshiamiso, Jacinta and Dan celebrate the start of Season Six and the podcast's fifth anniversary.

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  December 22, 2023Data Science, Development, Galaxies, Machine Learning, MeerKAT, People, Radio Astronomy, Simulations, Telescopes

  Mini Episode: Big data, big IDIA

  In this mini episode Jacinta has a quick interview with Professor Russ Taylor, one of the founders of IDIA ( The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy).

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  December 7, 2023Conservation, Data Science, Development, Education, Galaxies, Instrumentation, Simulations, Uncategorized

  Episode 69: Into the Matrix – Visualising Polar Ring Galaxies

  In the second part of the Polar ring galaxy series, Jacinta and Tshia drop in on Dr Lucia Marchetti and Alex Sivitilli in the IDIA (The Inter-university Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy) Visualisation Laboratory at UCT (The University of Cape Town) where they learn how Virtual Reality (VR) can be used to model astronomical data in three dimensions.