Juna Kollmeier: The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made
Juna Kollmeier: Najdokładniejsza mapa galaktyk, czarnych dziur i gwiazd, jaka kiedykolwiek powstała
Using all the techniques known to astronomy -- mathematics, computers and data from telescopes on the ground and in space -- Juna Kollmeier seeks to understand how the universe formed by mapping stars, galaxies and black holes at scale. Full bio
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I was afraid of the dark.
outside of my bedroom
turned to curiosity.
w ciekawość.
is something that's fascinated humans
of their attempts to map the sky.
that it's a carving of Orion
in ancient China.
w Chinach.
foot in the middle --
that you're looking at the Moon phases
that's the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters.
mapping the sky for a long time.
as a species in the galaxy
against the darkness.
going to engage in this battle,
three essential elements.
that are giving off light,
that are collecting that light,
czym jest światło.
what that light is.
the Moon phases over time
your more basic telescope.
what that means with your brains,
dzięki mózgowi,
of your more basic instruments.
extremely precisely.
the front line to the battle.
and his buddy, or his assistant, really,
i jego asystent
is just infinite, which it is,
jest skończony.
mapę wszechświata,
with one or two of your besties.
can accomplish the extraordinary.
coś niesamowitego.
of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SDSS.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).
to shepherd individual curiosity
indywidualną ciekawość
to make discoveries
to truly advance the frontier.
umożliwiających postęp.
into three mappers:
depending on how you count,
plus or minus a few hundred billion stars.
250 miliardów gwiazd.
that you hold in your head.
make practical sense
in your hand. You know?
all of those stars yet.
the most interesting ones.
the age of a star,
spread all throughout the Milky Way.
w Drodze Mlecznej.
and fossil record of our galaxy
right to the chase here.
objects in the universe.
math incarnate, in a physical form,
and walking around the corridors here.
and it's super dense and that's weird.
i to będzie dziwne.
and we know that now.
about black holes
by studying the material
of no information return.
and optical and UV and radio waves.
how these objects grow.
jak rosną te obiekty.
half a million supermassive black holes,
supermasywnych czarnych dziur,
you guys are all familiar with that.
average galaxy.
and all the Milky Ways,
amount of energy.
how does this transformation happen?
to the bellies of the beast
where they are occurring
grows up into Ward Cleaver.
hosts the Sloan telescope in New Mexico,
w Nowym Meksyku,
telescope, the du Pont.
is the size of our mirror,
on these old telescopes
of those objects into our aperture,
at the focal plane,
and process that light.
entirely robotic.
jest dokonywana przez roboty.
the Blade Runners among you,
of each telescope in each hemisphere.
na każdej półkuli.
galaxies, black holes.
as we pass over them
roboty ruszają w ich stronę,
and black holes, and yes,
that black holes are weird.
in our cosmic backyard.
na naszym kosmicznym podwórku.
map the sky one time.
to each part of the sky multiple times
these objects change over time.
encode the physics,
are growing and changing.
millions of objects, mow the sky,
miliony obiektów, przeczesywanie nieba,
industrial machine going,
lone wolf genius," right?
versions of the SDSS data,
incredibly rare type of object,
and by mandate from the Sloan Foundation,
a fancy astrophysicist to participate.
"Can moons have moons?"
czy księżyce mają księżyce.
four-year-olds over all of time
didn't know the answer.
nie znają odpowiedzi.
that can host hypothetical submoons.
mogą mieć swoje satelity.
that there are so many basic questions
important point about SDSS.
the black holes, the robots --
on a rubble pile
in a totally average galaxy
to understand their world.
in large surveys since about 1980.
in the observable universe by 2060.
kosmosu powstanie do 2060 roku.
from arranging clamshells
in a few thousand years --
w ciągu kilku tysięcy lat,
of our right to understand our universe.
do rozumienia kosmosu.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Juna Kollmeier - Theoretical astrophysicistUsing all the techniques known to astronomy -- mathematics, computers and data from telescopes on the ground and in space -- Juna Kollmeier seeks to understand how the universe formed by mapping stars, galaxies and black holes at scale.
Why you should listen
As she tells it, Juna Kollmeier believes "all humans have an inalienable right to know about their world. For the past two decades, I have been studying the cosmos -- from planets to galaxies to black holes. I am currently making a new map of the sky -- the fifth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey."
Led to a career in astrophysics by "a STEM camp in Michigan," Kollmeier is currently an astrophysicist at the Carnegie Institution for Science. Her research focuses on the emergence of structure in the universe on multiple scales and how the tiny fluctuations in density that were present when the universe was only 300,000 old became the stars, galaxies and black holes that we see now. Her goal is to complete this new SDSS sky map and to make sure these data remain available to the public for study.
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