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luxoramonrising | karma 28 | avg karma 3.5 · 2023-01-17 02:27:33

Where are the real pictures? All I see are the artistic representations?

lisper | karma 54803 | avg karma 4.63 · 2023-01-17 03:11:41

"Hubble can't photograph the AT2022dsb tidal event's mayhem up close, since the munched-up star is nearly 300 million light-years away at the core of the galaxy ESO 583-G004. But astronomers used Hubble's powerful ultraviolet sensitivity to study the light from the shredded star, which include hydrogen, carbon, and more. The spectroscopy provides forensic clues to the black hole homicide." - TFA

luxoramonrising | karma 28 | avg karma 3.5 · 2023-01-17 03:24:09

Then the title should've been "Hubble smelled sulfur in the air"

JusticeJuice | karma 744 | avg karma 4.2 · 2023-01-17 03:34:30

What in the title made you expect to see a photograph

kortilla | karma 11418 | avg karma 1.82 · 2023-01-17 03:40:16

Likely a correlation with a telescope that records photons frequently leading to photographs.

creativenolo | karma 290 | avg karma 1.42 · 2023-01-17 03:43:46

It's an immensely visual title in its description.

TeMPOraL | karma 106045 | avg karma 3.04 · 2023-01-17 04:36:05

- "Hubble" - i.e. that space telescope that's well-known by general public to shoot photographs.

- "finds a <very specific and visceral description of an extraordinary phenomenon>" - kind of implies you have a little more to go on than a spectrogram and a shipload of PhD-level math used to divine conclusions from it.

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aardvark179 | karma 1918 | avg karma 2.84 · 2023-01-17 03:52:03

3 out of the 5 instruments on Hubble are spectroscopes and interferometers and don’t produce pretty pictures. Since this discovery was based on pointing one of those spectroscopes at a transient event spotted in a sky survey there are no pictures.