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Re:Giant, All-Seeing Telescope Is Set to Revolutionize Astro... by kristianp on Saturday June 21, 2025 @05:36AM (#44336079)
> alerts for each new “transient”—as many as 10 million every night

How are astronomers going to deal with that many alerts?

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Re:Giant, All-Seeing Telescope Is Set to Revolutionize Astro... by BotJunkie on Saturday June 21, 2025 @09:30PM (#44342350)
There are automated "alert brokers" that will filter these alerts to make them manageable- you can subscribe to phenomena that you're interested in and get only those alerts.
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