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Newly Discovered Star Has an Almost Pure Oxygen Atmosphere
- justinclift 11y agoThe article says the discoverer was manually reviewing 300,000 pages of data (in graphs) because "a computer isn't easily programmed with such a vague task as "find something weird and cool ..." But then it says: > Because of it's oxygen atmosphere, Dox's spectral graph looked truly unique, and he brought it to Kepler. That seems to argue (strongly even) that computer based analysis would have picked up on this star pretty quickly. (Obviously assuming competent data modelling + subject knowledge) Perhaps the discoverer will now automate things a bit? :)
- perseusprime11 11y agoHello Big Data!