ASA and the National Science Foundation cancelled their big events at a major astronomy conference this summer. Scientists who attended were left disappointed.

To make a truly realistic fake picture of a galaxy, you can model exactly how light particles travel through the atmosphere and telescope to reach its sensor.

Astronomy has a major data problem. Simulating realistic images of the sky can help train algorithms by John Peterson, The Conversation ...

The data deluge But first, why is there so much astronomy data in the first place? This is primarily due to the rise of dedicated survey telescopes.

Major surveys from the past two decades include the SDSS, Kepler, Blanco-DECam, Subaru HSC, TESS, ZTF and Euclid.