{"id":35719,"date":"2011-05-29T15:44:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/challenge-gov-mapping-dark-matter\/"},"modified":"2011-05-29T15:44:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:44:48","slug":"challenge-gov-mapping-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/challenge-gov-mapping-dark-matter.php","title":{"rendered":"Challenge.gov: Mapping Dark Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c73a2_challenge.gov.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceref.com\/news\/viewsr.html?pid=37229\">Challenge.gov: Mapping Dark Matter<\/a><\/p><p><i>\"The aim is to measure the shapes of galaxies to reconstruct the gravitational lensing signal in the presence ofnoise and a known Point Spread Function. The signal is a very small change in the galaxies'ellipticity, an exactly circular galaxy image would be changed into anellipse; however real galaxies are not circular. The challenge is to measure the ellipticity of 100,000 simulated galaxies.\"<\/i><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20110527\/sc_afp\/australiaastrophysicsscience\">Aussie student finds universe's 'missing mass'<\/a>, AFP<\/p><p><i>\"A 22-year-old Australian university student has solved a problem which has puzzled astrophysicists for decades, discovering part of the so-called \"missing mass\" of the universe during her summer break. Undergraduate Amelia Fraser-McKelvie made the breakthrough during a holiday internship with a team at Monash University's School of Physics, locating the mystery material within vast structures called \"filaments of galaxies\".<\/i><\/p><p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c73a2_X9VX83wAOPA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenge.gov: Mapping Dark Matter\"The aim is to measure the shapes of galaxies to reconstruct the gravitational lensing signal in the presence ofnoise and a known Point Spread Function. The signal is a very small change in the galaxies'ellipticity, an exactly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/challenge-gov-mapping-dark-matter.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}