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  1. #261

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    Super nice

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    Thanks for sharing

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    https://www.popsci.com/megapixels-po...tex-from-space
    The morning temperature in the Windy City was -30 Celsius, which felt like-46 Celsius with wind chill. It was colder than Alaska's state capital and even colder than parts of Antarctica.

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    If you're trying to download it, use a bittorrent client magnet:?xt=urn:btih:j6ixrzpitvpmkx5tgroy6utcpqr5hh hj&dn=updated%20mosaic.png&xl=304863698&fc=1

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    Curiosity lives!

    Of course, this only is possible after exercising that most sacred of technology practises ... they turned it off and back on again.

    https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8416/afte...LF1VGdei3hUBTU

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    wonder if anyone blew on the socket before it's turned on again


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    Waited 8 years for the perfect shot...

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/...-front-of-moon

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    Thanks for sharing

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    https://www.space.com/15421-black-ho...ery-sdcmp.html

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    Space.Com has a good explainer video in this article.

    https://www.space.com/first-black-ho...telescope.html

    And then there are some practical issues with the data that they collect.

    The EHT team has used this megascope to study the two supermassive black holes for two weeklong stretches to date — once in April 2017 and again the following year. The new imagery comes from the first observing run.

    There are good reasons why it's taken two years for the project's first result to come out. For one thing, each night of observing generated about 1 petabyte of data, resulting in such a haul that the team has to move its information from place to place the old-fashioned way.

    "There's no way that we can transfer this data through the internet," EHT project scientist Dimitrios Psaltis, an astronomy professor at the University of Arizona, said at the SXSW event. "So, what we actually do is, we take our hard drives and we FedEx them from place to place. This is much faster than any cable that you can ever find."

    This slows and complicates analysis, of course. Data from the EHT scope near the South Pole, for example, couldn't get off Antarctica until December 2017, when it was warm enough for planes to go in and out, Marrone said.
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