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raidriar889 t1_ivuaqts wrote

Reply to comment by chiphappened in Hubble captured a supernova as it exploded by Shiny-Tie-126

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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