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pixelesquetoday at 11:04 AM1 replyview on HN

Title doesn't match submission: it's not really a "coordinate" in 3D space, you "adopt" a pixel from the early imagery taken by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

Maybe that can be reverse-projected back to something like a coordinate (if you know the distance), but it's not the same thing.


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SiempreViernestoday at 11:22 AM

It's a coordinate on the celestial sphere, which is just as good a coordinate as anything else. Now, if the title had said something like "place" you might have a case that the expectation is that a specific spacetime point is being defined.

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