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New Horizons and the Future Beyond (Space Stuff)

Discussion in 'Permanent Threads' started by Juice, Jul 10, 2015.

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    Oh, I bet you do...
     
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    It's absolutely incredible.

    I really wonder what comes next. Have you heard anything? Usually they'd be 1/3 of the way through building the next big thing, delivered in 10 years, but I haven't found anything talking about what comes after Webb.

    Regardless... whatever does come next has got to be just mind blowing.
     
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    I haven't heard anything about what comes next. I can't wait though. I'm think with transportation and cargo moving more to the private opportunities that NASA can focus more on science. But, I think it takes some urgency and interest from Congress and whomever is President to keep moving forward.
     
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    Yeah. They're just dribbling out some photos, really. After a couple years of actual scientific data gathering? It's going to be fantastic.
     
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    I wonder how much of the "dribbling" is the post-processing required for normal consumption?

    The pics/data coming from Webb don't look like what we see... it's a whole spectrum of data that they generally apply colourizing algorithms to in order for them to look pretty for us.

    You have to think that they are rewriting a ton of those algorithms to fit the new data coming out... and even that processing is going to get better over time, so some of the early released shots may come out later looking even more stunning that they first did.
     
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    I remember seeing some documentary about a women data scientist who won some prestigious award for her data analytics around that stuff... she built out a system that could process TB or PBs of data efficiently.

    I'll see if I can't remember where that was... but it was just mind boggling, and she never had any idea that she'd end up working on space pics, never mind having her career defined by it.
     
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    It's amazing what they can gain from older data with new processing methods. My wife's PhD thesis used radar data from missions in the 70's that scanned Europa.
     
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    That's crazy cool.

    But yeah, at the heart of it, it's data that is not meant to be visual in nature by default.
     
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    If you want to watch us smash into an asteroid live . . .

     
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    No kidding...

    And what surprises me is that they were way off on the amount of deflection that they caused. They pushed it way, way more than they were expecting.

    I wonder where their math went wrong? NASA is usually pretty good at that kind of thing, and I wonder if it was just that they overestimated the density/mass of the asteroid or what?

    It was also cool to see the comet tail they created as a result.
     
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    This, too is very cool...

    https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/we...spews-out-material-years-after-shredding-star

    The paper's author is active in this Reddit thread:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/y2439s/weve_never_seen_anything_like_this_before_black/

    Initial post from 3 months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Andromeda321/comments/voe800/i_discovered_a_black_hole_that_2_years_after/

     
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    It's probably their garbage disposal.