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We're going to see a lot more of these in the next couple of years due to the new Vera C Rubin observatory.
by sgt101 1y ago
We're going to see a lot more of these in the next couple of years due to the new Vera C Rubin observatory.
- JumpCrisscross 1y agoAlso the ELT [1], I believe. (Both come online this year.) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope
- cyberlimerence 1y agoELT's first light is planned for March 2029.[1] Vera is already online I think. [1] https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann25001/ https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann25001/
- hermitcrab 1y agoI can't believe that all those super-intelligent astronomers, who spend hours on their own in the dark, couldn't come up with a better name than 'Extremely Large Telescope'. ;0)
- zorton 1y agoNot terribly related but I got curious, the ELT has a reported angular resolution of 0.005 arcseconds. The sad state of public trust has resulted in many people no longer accepting the US landed on the moon at all. Tossing the question of what it would take to resolve the lunar landing sites into a LLM gives a broad requirement of 0.0005 arcseconds. Even still, you could never "prove" it to most people unless it's glass the entire way with no "hoax generating" computers involved. It's a fun idea thought though.