Show HN: NASA's Swift telescope's 22 years in orbit, rebuilt from its archive

Posted by mrroryflint on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:07AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://swift.rory.codes/

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Re:Show HN: NASA's Swift telescope's 22 years in orbit, rebu... by xyxc on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:47PM (#50398950)

The site is much more that what I want to mention here but - the globe animation is the best I have seen in my life. It's absolutely stunning!!

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Re:Show HN: NASA's Swift telescope's 22 years in orbit, rebu... by mrroryflint on Sunday November 08, 2026 @01:30AM (#50410933)

Good ol' Opus!

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Re:Show HN: NASA's Swift telescope's 22 years in orbit, rebu... by iberator on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:18PM (#50399252)

Evil project disguised as astronomy. 99% of any neutrino based research is in reality aimed towards winning nuclear wars: nuclear submarine neutrino based communications at any depth and distance, and neutrino based navigation for submarines.

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Re:Show HN: NASA's Swift telescope's 22 years in orbit, rebu... by kubenest on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:56AM (#50404564)

cool stuff, took me 3 seconds to "oh, I got it."

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