How the James Webb Space Telescope broke the universe | MIT Technology Review

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Summary:

"Every day, JWST can collect more than 50 gigabytes of data, compared with just one or two gigabytes for Hubble. The data, which contains images and spectroscopic signatures (essentially light broken apart into its elements), is fed through an algorithm run by STScI. Known as a “pipeline,” it turns the telescope’s raw images and numbers into useful information. Some of this is released immediately on public servers, where it is picked up by eager scientists or even by Twitter bots such as the JWST Photo Bot. Other data is handed to scientists on programs that have proprietary windows, enabling them to take time analyzing their own data before it is released to the masses...."

Link:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/21/1065178/james-webb-space-telescope-universe/

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Date tagged:

01/21/2023, 15:55

Date published:

01/21/2023, 10:55