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AI galaxy hunters are adding to the global GPU crunch
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NASA announced that it will launch the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope into orbit in September 2026, eight months ahead of schedule.
Key facts
- For comparison, the Hubble Space telescope, once the gold standard, delivers 1 to 2 gigabytes of sensor readings each day
- That will add to 57 gigabytes of breath-taking imagery downlinked daily from the James Webb Space Telescope, which began its work in 2021, and the start of a survey later this year by the Vera C
- NASA announced that it will launch the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope into orbit in September 2026, eight months ahead of schedule
- The Trump administration proposed cutting the NSF’s budget by 50% in its current budget request
Summary
That will add to 57 gigabytes of breath-taking imagery downlinked daily from the James Webb Space Telescope, which began its work in 2021, and the start of a survey later this year by the Vera C. For comparison, the Hubble Space telescope, once the gold standard, delivers 1 to 2 gigabytes of sensor readings each day. Brant Robertson, a UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist, has had a front-row seat to this step change in science while supporting or using data from these missions. “There’s been this evolution looking at a few objects, to doing CPU-based analyses on large scales of the dataset, to then doing GPU-accelerated versions of those same analyses,” he told TechCrunch.