Computer Science Tools Flood Astronomers With Data

purkinje writes "Astronomy is getting a major data-gathering boost from computer science, as new tools like real-time telescopic observations and digital sky surveys provide astronomers with an unprecedented amount of information — the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, for instance, generates 30 terabytes of data each night. Using informatics and other data-crunching approaches, astronomers — with the help of computer science — may be able to get at some of the biggest, as-yet-unanswerable cosmological questions."

They might be annoying,

[Anonymous Coward]

But I think "tools" is a bit offensive. They're trying to help the astronomers in a meaningful way.