{"id":203795,"date":"2025-01-15T04:28:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/simulated-universe-previews-panoramas-from-nasas-roman-telescope"},"modified":"2025-01-15T04:28:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:28:27","slug":"simulated-universe-previews-panoramas-from-nasas-roman-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/simulated-universe-previews-panoramas-from-nasas-roman-telescope","title":{"rendered":"Simulated universe previews panoramas from NASA\u2019s Roman Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/simulated-universe-previews-panoramas-from-nasas-roman-telescope3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have released a set of more than a million simulated images showcasing the cosmos as NASA\u2019s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see it. This preview will help scientists explore Roman\u2019s myriad science goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used a supercomputer to create a synthetic universe and simulated billions of years of evolution, tracing every photon\u2019s path all the way from each cosmic object to Roman\u2019s detectors,\u201d said Michael Troxel, an associate professor of physics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who led the simulation campaign. \u201cThis is the largest, deepest, most realistic synthetic survey of a mock universe available today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project, called <a href=\"https:\/\/irsa.ipac.caltech.edu\/data\/theory\/openuniverse2024\/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\">OpenUniverse<\/a>, relied on the now-retired Theta supercomputer at the DOE\u2019s (Department of Energy\u2019s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. In just nine days, the supercomputer accomplished a process that would take over 6,000 years on a typical computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have released a set of more than a million simulated images showcasing the cosmos as NASA\u2019s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see it. This preview will help scientists explore Roman\u2019s myriad science goals. \u201cWe used a supercomputer to create a synthetic universe and simulated billions of years of evolution, tracing every photon\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,8,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-space","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}