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That is pretty cool. Are we just now learning about these because the sun is hard to observe? I understand its distance and brightness are both impediments.
by sqeaky 10y ago
That is pretty cool.
Are we just now learning about these because the sun is hard to observe? I understand its distance and brightness are both impediments.
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- sp332 10y agoI don't know why it took so long to look at the data collected "from June 2010 to May 2013". Maybe brightpoints are just not that interesting compared to other features, and it took a while for someone to take an interest?
- sqeaky 10y agoSometimes astronomical data sits around for years before academics and amateurs get the time to use their preferred techniques on it. Each pass over the data has another chance of finding something and sometimes people learn new things from 40 year old data. Somehow I guess I thought waves the size of a planet on our home star would be faster finds than more distant things.