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xkcd #3278: Vera Rubin Observatory

Title text:

'Spurious signals from the kitchen' is harder for an optical telescope than a radio one, but with enough determination and creativity, I believe it's possible.

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[–] Ooops@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's actually dark matter they fail to see...

[–] mossy_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

not so much "fail to see space" as "space is an obstacle between earth and the things we want to see", similar to earth's atmosphere getting in the way

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

No, I meant discovering that see-through area (space) by failing to find the (dark) matter expected there.

[–] mossy_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I seee... figuratively speaking