![]() (Yes, the 1, 3 theme-complete with the fact that it’s the 13th of the month today-is amusing, if coincidental.) Today I’m excited to announce the latest results of our long-running R&D pipeline: Version 13 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica. The key function for representing where astronomical things are is AstroPosition.Just a few weeks ago it was 1/3 of a century since Mathematica 1.0 was released. Oh, and there’s the question of where things “are,” versus where things appear to be-because of effects ranging from light-propagation delays to refraction in the Earth’s atmosphere. ![]() But in astronomy-especially with everything moving-describing where things are is much more complicated. ![]() And on the Earth, latitude and longitude are good standard ways to describe where things are. Relativity also isn’t important in geography, but it is in astronomy. Mountains don’t move (at least perceptibly), but planets certainly do. But astro is substantially more complicated. In many ways, our astro computation capabilities are modeled on our geo computation ones. But what’s new now is astronomical computation fully integrated into the system. Yes, the Wolfram Language (and Wolfram|Alpha) have had astronomical data for well over a decade. Here are the updates in astro computation since then, including the latest features in 13.2.Īstronomy has been a driving force for computation for more than 2000 years (from the Antikythera device on)… and in Version 13.2 it’s coming to Wolfram Language in a big way. Last year we released Version 13.1 of the Wolfram Language.
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