Al Tensor| Hey! What Are You Looking At?
Hey! What Are You Looking At?
Al Tensor: Window of opportunity for High-Energy phenomena research
Summary
48 hours ago, in places far, far away… 5 high school students started to develop a web tool that, through a very simple visual interface, allows any user to analyze the observable zone of space from data collected by the different space observation missions such as NuSTAR and Hubble Space Telescope, filtering the search for the different images according to wavelength, date and in a certain time range. Our goal: To facilitate scientific astrophysics work in a significant way and allow amateur astronomers to get into this topic.
How We Addressed This Challenge
This data exploration tool tries to display the aforementioned data in a much easier to understand way thus democratizing the access to this data.
How We Developed This Project
Our project was developed in the following way. Firstly we used Figma to create a mockup that tried to address the points in the above answer. Afterwards we used jQuery and Aladin to create an interactive map of the universe. Moreover, we used a catalogue such as Simbad to add interactivity and data overlays to the previously mentioned map.
Afterwards, we added several sliders and control data to aid in data discovery.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
Using the HESEARC space data to guide ourselves as well as using SIMBAD’s catalog data to improve our observations was crucial to the development of our project.
Project Demo
You can access a demo of the solution here: