Space telescope

Uh, very, very quickly is, you know, not all satellites are bad.

There are some satellites we do like, so I'll just give a little shout out to the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope.

that recently launched just a little bit ago.

And if you have not heard of the Space Telescope, it's pretty awesome.

So the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one of these flagship orbital observatories.

And it's going to have some really, really unique capacity in some really interesting areas like exoplanets and ability to potentially find Earth-like worlds, which are tiny and very, very hard to find.

So this is going to be one that's going to probably have some really interesting implications for exoplanets, for rogue planets, um for all kinds of things with transits and habitable worlds and it is not it has to travel through low earth orbit and medium earth orbit but it's not going to be part of the problem it's going to be all the way out at lagrange point two uh so very very far away although there are a few things that look grunge point to you now um james webb space telescope for another But something to look forward to in satellites.

And also, in a little bit of hopeful news, one thing that has also happened is the Iris 2 constellation.

So, there's no atmospheric absorption out there, and so you have a much easier time doing this from space.

So, what they have been doing is, recently, people, in particular a guy named Adam Ries, have been using the space telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, to find high redshift supernovae.

There is a flaw in the way the Space Telescope is designed from the point of view of trying to do this experiment.

And the flaw is that it doesn't look at very much of the sky at once.

It only looks at a small field of view, so you don't find many.

because you're just not looking at that bigger part of the sky.

And so, you can only look at a tiny piece of the sky at once.

However, they have spent, because this is of some clear importance, they've spent many, many, many hundreds of observing hours with the Space Telescope, trying to track down a few supernovae at a redshift greater than 1.

It's like stuff I feel like I should know about.

So first of all, a space telescope launched.

Wow.

It launched on the 30th of August, actually.

So a few days ago, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, it has a field of view at least 100 times larger than the Hubble's.

And it's going to measure light from a billion galaxies in its lifetime.

Wow.