Century of Vanishing Astrophysical Bodies - Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, VASCO

Dr. Beatriz Villarroel is a researcher at the Nordic Institute
for Theoretical Physics who is the brains behind the VASCO
project - a study of Vanishing and Appearing Sources During a
Century of Observation. The project asked a stunningly simple
question - if we compare photographic plates of the cosmos taken
in the 1950s with photographs taken in the last few years, would
there be much of a difference? To their great surprise,
Villarroel and colleagues discovered more than 100,000 mismatches
between the two datasets. We talk to her about the missing
objects, the art of astronomical observation, how to stay
creative in a system that rewards incremental progress, and her
ambitious goal of identifying and recovering an extraterrestrial
object from within our solar system. Support the scientific
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.05068.pdf Nine Transients:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-92162-7 VASCO Citizen
Science: https://vasconsite.wordpress.com/ml-blink-2/ Dr.
Villarroel on the violin:
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