Computation has had two effects in astronomy. Unprecedented data-analysis capability, sure. The other affect that I have seen is how new telescopes can be buil

Computation has had two effects in astronomy. Unprecedented data-analysis capability, sure. The other affect that I have seen is how new telescopes can be built, literally out of digital electronics. Radio-telescope arrays, CCD sensors for radio, infrared, visible-wavelength astronomy. Sure, particle physics sensor data is getting a similar boost there, but those instruments have to make things go boom. At the current state of the art, maybe telescopes can scale up faster than particle accelerators?