Comment by jharohit
I had eyeballed one in a random image from Hubble few years ago! Finally found my answer of what it was
https://x.com/jharohit/status/1479100020049678339?s=46
Great use of AI!
I had eyeballed one in a random image from Hubble few years ago! Finally found my answer of what it was
https://x.com/jharohit/status/1479100020049678339?s=46
Great use of AI!
There's the assumption, at least by me in the past, that every image ever taken by any telescope has been poured over that nothing new could be found by someone like me looking at it. It wasn't until I realized that most images are looked at by the people capturing the image while they look at the image for the one thing they were trying to study. In a Hubble/JWST type image, that point of interest might be < 10% of the captured data. (Think of all of those images of new discoveries that have been so zoomed in that it's nothing but a bunch of pixels) Once they finish with it, it just becomes part of the archive. There have been lots of discoveries of people combing over the archives to find things in existing data without ever needing any 'scope time of their own.