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Where are the real pictures? All I see are the artistic representations?
by luxoramonrising 4y ago
Where are the real pictures? All I see are the artistic representations?
- lisper 4y ago"Hubble can't photograph the AT2022dsb tidal event's mayhem up close, since the munched-up star is nearly 300 million light-years away at the core of the galaxy ESO 583-G004. But astronomers used Hubble's powerful ultraviolet sensitivity to study the light from the shredded star, which include hydrogen, carbon, and more. The spectroscopy provides forensic clues to the black hole homicide." - TFA
- luxoramonrising 4y agoThen the title should've been "Hubble smelled sulfur in the air"
- JusticeJuice 4y agoWhat in the title made you expect to see a photograph
- kortilla 4y agoLikely a correlation with a telescope that records photons frequently leading to photographs.
- creativenolo 4y agoIt's an immensely visual title in its description.
- TeMPOraL 4y ago- "Hubble" - i.e. that space telescope that's well-known by general public to shoot photographs. - "finds a <very specific and visceral description of an extraordinary phenomenon>" - kind of implies you have a little more to go on than a spectrogram and a shipload of PhD-level math used to divine conclusions from it.
- aardvark179 4y ago3 out of the 5 instruments on Hubble are spectroscopes and interferometers and don’t produce pretty pictures. Since this discovery was based on pointing one of those spectroscopes at a transient event spotted in a sky survey there are no pictures.