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The used a series of observations across a broad spectrum I didn't read the paper, but I suspect the number of observations was quite large.
by ch4s3 7y ago
The used a series of observations across a broad spectrum I didn't read the paper, but I suspect the number of observations was quite large.
- mirimir 7y agoThanks. But I meant that they only see the thing at one time. So talking about events over billions of years seems iffy.
- zentiggr 7y agoOnly an amateur observer and occasional paper browser, but my general take is that there are an awful lot of prior models of everything from the stellar nucleophysics up through environmental effects in nurseries, nebulae, galaxies, clusters, etc. Years and years of observations, hypothesizing, and refining with even more observations combine to give a halfway decent storyline of many processes at all scales. These are then fit against new observations and either refined or modified or expanded to give new data a home as well. All in all, a very cool example of the scientific process working itself out just as it should and can.