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Perhaps the astrophysicists are getting on the data bandwagon, going back through collected data and applying the latest techniques on them. Are there any paper

by ralphc 8y ago

Perhaps the astrophysicists are getting on the data bandwagon, going back through collected data and applying the latest techniques on them. Are there any papers on this not behind paywalls?

twic 8y ago
I think you're being downvoted, i would say mistakenly, because that's not the case. What's happening in astronomy is that huge amounts of new high-quality data are becoming available. This particular bit of Planet Nine business fell out of the Dark Energy Survey [1]: The collaboration built and is using an extremely sensitive 570-Megapixel digital camera, DECam, mounted on the Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, high in the Chilean Andes, to carry out the project. Over five years (2013-2018), the DES collaboration is using 525 nights of observation to carry out a deep, wide-area survey to record information from 300 million galaxies that are billions of light-years from Earth. Other big surveys recently include Kepler, looking for exoplanets since 2009 and only now running out of fuel [2], and Gaia, which for the last five years has been mapping over a a billion (!) stars across the galaxy [3] [4]. And in a few years, we should get the James Webb telescope going up. Exciting times! [1] https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/the-des-project/overview/ https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/the-des-project/overview/ [2] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/nasa-s-kepler-spacecraft-nearing-the-end-as-fuel-runs-low https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/nasa-s-kepler-spacecraft-n... [3] http://sci.esa.int/gaia/28890-objectives/ http://sci.esa.int/gaia/28890-objectives/ [4] https://gizmodo.com/tomorrows-star-map-release-could-revolutionize-our-unde-1825503300 https://gizmodo.com/tomorrows-star-map-release-could-revolut...
- 8bitsrule 8y ago
  Astronomy has gotten much better at promoting itself than it did in the past. Hubble helped; painting up all those pale objects in gorgeous colors, for example. (For shame!) Most advances in modern physics are about invisible objects. Most people? given a choice between seeing the fireworks, or seeing an equation explaining how they work?
andrepd 8y ago
Well even if they are, I consider it more than ethical to use sci-hub

by ralphc 8y ago

Perhaps the astrophysicists are getting on the data bandwagon, going back through collected data and applying the latest techniques on them. Are there any papers on this not behind paywalls?

twic 8y ago

I think you're being downvoted, i would say mistakenly, because that's not the case. What's happening in astronomy is that huge amounts of new high-quality data are becoming available. This particular bit of Planet Nine business fell out of the Dark Energy Survey [1]: The collaboration built and is using an extremely sensitive 570-Megapixel digital camera, DECam, mounted on the Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, high in the Chilean Andes, to carry out the project. Over five years (2013-2018), the DES collaboration is using 525 nights of observation to carry out a deep, wide-area survey to record information from 300 million galaxies that are billions of light-years from Earth. Other big surveys recently include Kepler, looking for exoplanets since 2009 and only now running out of fuel [2], and Gaia, which for the last five years has been mapping over a a billion (!) stars across the galaxy [3] [4]. And in a few years, we should get the James Webb telescope going up. Exciting times! [1] https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/the-des-project/overview/ https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/the-des-project/overview/ [2] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/nasa-s-kepler-spacecraft-nearing-the-end-as-fuel-runs-low https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/nasa-s-kepler-spacecraft-n... [3] http://sci.esa.int/gaia/28890-objectives/ http://sci.esa.int/gaia/28890-objectives/ [4] https://gizmodo.com/tomorrows-star-map-release-could-revolutionize-our-unde-1825503300 https://gizmodo.com/tomorrows-star-map-release-could-revolut...

8bitsrule 8y ago
Astronomy has gotten much better at promoting itself than it did in the past. Hubble helped; painting up all those pale objects in gorgeous colors, for example. (For shame!) Most advances in modern physics are about invisible objects. Most people? given a choice between seeing the fireworks, or seeing an equation explaining how they work?

andrepd 8y ago

Well even if they are, I consider it more than ethical to use sci-hub