An innovative new sky survey called the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) will use a 48-inch telescope together with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) to discover relatively rare and fleeting cosmic events like supernovae and gamma ray bursts.* The survery is already in progress, and during the commissioning [...]More... (http://www.universetoday.com/2009/06...rs-in-the-act/)