NERSC helps expose cosmic transients

		IMAGE: This false-color image of our glowing galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy, was created by layering 400 individual images captured by the PTF camera in February 2009. In one pointing, the... Click here for more information.

BERKELEY, CA – An innovative new sky survey, called the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF), will utilize the unique tools and services offered by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to expose relatively rare and fleeting cosmic events, like supernovae and gamma ray bursts.