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It is absolutely insane to me I get to witness these things in my lifetime. This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, probably even beats the black hole

• dylan604 1y ago
  The black hole image to me was somewhat less impressive since it was so heavily computed. It's not like a camera was pointed in that direction and created an exposure over the course of minutes/hours/days like the Hubble/JWST Deep Fields. The images of Gargantua in Interstellar were more impressive than the black hole image to me.
  • tomrod 1y ago
    Aye. We had to collect one photon at a time for that one... Wait, I love them both!
  • grues-dinner 1y ago
    If anything that makes it more impressive to me, technically. It's pulling allusions to hints to information out of absurdly tiny fluctuations in the universe. Anyone, metaphorically, can just build a bigger camera and hold the shutter open for longer. Not to denigrate the engineering behind these awesome instruments, which is where my heart really is, but the design is driven by ever sneakier ways to coerce reality into telling us what's going on. True, the image itself isn't especially exciting graphically (with the things CGI and AI are producing, what real thing even is these days?) but what it represents is.
• telesilla 1y ago
  Yes, this is extraordinary and I'm excited for the medical innovation that will come from it. For me until now it's been the photo of earth by Michael Collins, from the the first moon mission as he was above the moon lander, being the only living person not in the frame. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/05/05/micheal-collins/ https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/05/05/micheal-collins/