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Re:Fastest star ever seen is moving at 8% the speed of light by Keysh on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:26PM (#24189423)
No one in astronomy uses TIFFs. Most scientific images are stored in FITS format, either in integer form for some raw data or in floating-point form.
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Re:Fastest star ever seen is moving at 8% the speed of light by rleigh on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:13PM (#24216588)
FITS is very domain-specific for astronomy. It's not at all common in the wider scientific community.

I used to work on on of the larger imaging tools, supporting over 150 scientific file formats. The vast majority, over 80%, were using TIFF as a container. The next most popular was HDF5. FITS was not something I saw commonly, and we were getting images from researchers all over the world.

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