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1.5TB of James Webb Space Telescope data dumped on the internet — new searchable database is the largest window into our universe to date (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 9 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/astronomy@mander.xyz

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[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tangent, how would this telescope do turned around and pointed at our deepest oceans? There's infinitely more alien life to actually find and study, and it's still unstudied for good reasons I suppose I'm fishing for.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Wait... what?

We've got tons of oceanographic satellites. James Webb is extremely good at picking up light. The ocean is extremely dark.