How big data is transforming our cosmic knowledge

Located on a mountaintop at Cerro Pachón in Chile, the observatory is expected to catalogue the night sky in exquisite detail. It aims to answer fundamental questions by studying supernovae, asteroids, dark matter, and the properties of our own galaxy. Yet, it also addresses a question dominating 21st-century science: how is discovery viewed in the age of big data? Located on a mountaintop at Cerro Pachón in Chile, the observatory is expected to catalogue the night sky in exquisite detail. It aims to answer fundamental questions by studying supernovae, asteroids, dark matter, and the properties of our own galax... [2382 chars]