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Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism... by RhodoYolo on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:03PM (#25153088)
Do you have a list or link to any mega projects you are currently excited about?
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Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism... by piyh on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:11PM (#25153169)
Starshade is a crazy concept that could do more for the search for life than any previous approach by allowing us to block out a star to directly view its planets.

https://youtu.be/-jA2ABHBc6Y?t=3652

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Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism... by kristianp on Thursday November 19, 2020 @06:06PM (#25155443)
Non-youtube link. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/1015/flower-power-nasa...
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Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism... by aylmao on Thursday November 19, 2020 @09:16PM (#25156708)
Three that sound pretty exciting to me are ITER [1], the Extremely Large Telescope [2] and the James Webb Space Telescope. I'm sure there is also more I haven't heard of yet!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope

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Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism... by peterwoerner on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:19AM (#25157521)
Roman Space Telescope, LISA.

[1] https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/

[2] https://lisa.nasa.gov/ , https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/LISA

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Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism... by aylmao on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:29PM (#25165218)
I didn't know about these two. Thanks for sharing!
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Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism... by XorNot on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:26PM (#25157302)
James Webb is the one I worry about the most. ITER has a taken a long time, but they're making steady forward progress with it.

Whereas I live in fear that James Webb will suffer a failure during launch or deployment that just turns it into a very expensive explosion.

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Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism... by aylmao on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:26PM (#25165185)
I agree. Or even if nothing explodes, I'm worried that during the unfolding something will break or get stuck and, and unlike Hubble it won't be "easily" repairable (if at all). Hopefully this doesn't happen, because it is a once-in-many-decades project.
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