Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that the famous Pleiades star cluster, the "Seven Sisters" often spotted on winter nights, is just the bright tip of a ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently switched the lights on for Project Rainier, a mammoth compute cluster powered by its custom Trainium2 chips. The supercluster, to borrow hyperscaler parlance, ...

A major AWS outage disrupted global websites, apps, and services. The issue stemmed from a DNS failure in AWS's US-East-1 region. In the latest update, Amazon said the AWS outage was resolved. Amazon ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The company's largest data ...

resource "aws_emr_cluster" "data_pipeline_spark_cluster" { name = "data-pipeline-spark-cluster-${substr(aws_s3_object.emr_bootstrap.etag, 0, 8)}" release_label = "emr ...

Globular clusters are gravitationally bound, dense star collections containing tens of thousands to millions of stars, often located in galactic halos. Omega Centauri, the largest known globular ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Imagine correcting your vision in under a minute – no lasers, blades or pain. Scientists have developed a novel, non-invasive technique that reshapes the cornea using only a mild electric current and ...

Warm mid-August summer nights offer prime conditions for spotting three magnificent star clusters visible to northern-hemisphere skywatchers in the coming months. Star clusters are gravitationally ...

This is a tale of rediscovery. I have been an astronomer for more than half a century. My current observing concentrates on showcase nebulae and galaxies or the pursuit of fine lunar detail. But ...