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chiphappened t1_ivtyw2p wrote

These images shown were taken 2011 - 2016? Does it take this long to *parse the data? Great vid btw

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raidriar889 t1_ivuaqts wrote

I think you mean parse. But the reason the paper was only published today is because nobody noticed the supernova back then. The team went back and was looking for gravitationally lensed transient events in archival HST images, and happened to find this supernova.

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thatredditdude101 t1_ivubbhe wrote

kind of reminds of the original Voyager data/images that were sent back of IO. It wasn’t until much later (late 80s?) that processing technology had improved and when scientists re-examined the IO data that they realized they had actually captured active volcanic eruptions. They could see the plumes from the volcanos.

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zeeblecroid t1_ivvipra wrote

Hubble has produced a lot of data for researchers to parse. If it vanished tomorrow this year's stuff alone would probably be able to keep astronomers going for years.

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chiphappened t1_ivuxrb7 wrote

If the JWT is the Ferrari of space telescopes? Hubble is the ‘66 Corvette

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