With radio astronomy, we can look across many light-years of distance and see incredible details such as the chemical makeup of a given region. Kevin Vinsen and Rodrigo Tobar from ICRAR are using the world's fastest supercomputer along with some sweet Python to process the equivalent of 1,600 hours of standard-definition YouTube video per second.

Full show notes at https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/257/exploring-the-galaxy-with-the-fastest-supercomputer-python-and-radio-astronomy