alt Hacker Newsyou should see what cosmic rays do to space telescopes
public almost never sees what raw images look like
RAW https://blog.galaxyzoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/spiral...
FINAL https://blog.galaxyzoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/spiral...
* https://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2010/04/12/how-to-handle-hubble-i...
they also slowly destroy the sensors since they are physical particles moving at almost the speed of light
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plmpsu • today at 3:18 PM
Oh wow, I thought those were stars at first.
r_lee • today at 2:40 PM
thanks for the links, that's really interesting to look at
do you happen to know how exactly those artifacts are cleaned up?
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Reminds me of the radiation after Chernobyl causing flashes on the physical film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOLBEx5DBaE