'for the record books' would seem to imply that they've captured an object or event considered so incredibly rare that they don't expect Hubble or JWST to ever encounter/observe another example again in the foreseeable future.
Hubble has been combing the universe for so long that the babies born in the year of it's launch can operate it. What could it have possibly found that would warranty those powerful words?
In science the record books means discovering a new phenomenon or process as opposed to simply gathering data points. Scientists spend decades and often entire careers waiting for results relevant enough that we add to our collective body of knowledge.
I never understood the last one. I thought we didn't know what dark matter was actually composed of? (which is why it's called dark) So how the hell do they know there's no dark matter in a galaxy?
My local astronomy club just had a presentation by a JPL scientist about using gravitational lensing to discover new exoplanets. It was recorded but we can't post the video until next week. Also some of the sources for data was not shared during the presentation and followup QnA. So I'd not be surprised if it is an exoplanet.
It's probably something that to most seems like not a big deal. I'm sure this subreddit will be excited either way though. I do of course always hope it is something to do with life in space but I doubt it.
Anyone know where the actual media advisory is? I wanted to check that out because it usually says who's presenting, which gives some insight into what they're going to be talking about. For this one the only source I can find is the Space article - which, being a Space article, is worthless - and a bunch of plagiarism sites which just copied the same story and threw a thesaurus at it.
"We've noticed odd signal waves emanating from far off, which abruptly stopped. Our telescope has noticed noticed a green mass of energy encircling the approximate source of this signal. Based on the initial pattern of the waves, we're naming this signal source The Eye"
At least our civilization would never be united for a common purpose, least of all for the pursuit of knowledge of any kind, so our planet won't be destroyed because of that.
Why tease? Seriously. It just invites speculation and inevitable disappointment when it is just some stale (to the lay person) announcement about some exotic star.
Would be great if something like that was discovered by the humble Hubble after 30 years in service while the JWST is spooling up. Talk about stealing some thunder
I feel like it'll be something like water detected in the atmosphere of Proxima B, or a planet 'confirmed' in the Whirlpool or Andromeda galaxy. I think those type of things have been previously speculated or been raised to a likely status, but not outright confirmed. Not like it'll be aliens or something really wild.
That's not entirely fair. We get bombarded by fantastical claims and advance previews of new knowledge at the time. NASA could announce confirmation of proof of life on other planets and a ton of people would be like "yawn, we've figured on that a long time now, tell us something new like is there porn of this alien life?"
The Extremely Large Telescope being built by European Southern Observatory is 40m in diameter with advanced adaptive optics to try and fix the atmospheric distortion uses visible light. I'm not sure on the exact details but it is far more powerful than hubble and probably around the power of Webb, it also only cost a fraction of the amount of Webb to build and so i think unless they can find a way to reduce the cost of space telescopes significantly, we will see an increase in extremely large visible light ground telescopes.
We all know it's not going to be aliens, and everyone's going to report it as "IS IT ALIENS!??!?" - then NASA will announce it's something scientifically very interesting, but not really to the general public after having the hype train tell them we've found aliens and then it'll just be a disappointment.
I don't understand how they have just discovered it? They've been getting photos from it for over 30 years, surely that was evidence enough it existed. I'm not even sure how they forgot they put it there in the first place.
If this is the start of an april fools prank Im going to be pretty pissed. Then impressed with the planning. Then pissed some more. Then Ill move on with my day and probably get chipotle or something...
I really really dislike the trend of news about news. It's all over the place these days. How about when news breaks or something it's released, it makes the news then. Information travels fast enough now anyways, why does it matter that we get a heads up.
They spotted a variable star - transmitting in morse code. Using English. Saying : “You are blocking our freeway development. Please prepare for roadwork for the next million years.”
Hubble has been combing the universe for so long that the babies born in the year of it's launch can operate it. What could it have possibly found that would warranty those powerful words?
I've become desensitized to NASA's announcements on discoveries mostly because of Mars where there is some press conference followed by some follow up study a few years later that disputes it. Or there is some hype and the announcement ends up being something like "interesting rock found on Mars that looks like Big Chungus." Okay that last one was a joke but
It's harder to have discussion or Q&A through a press release. To do those well you need peoples' schedules to line up, which is what these "we're announcing something next week" notices are for.
NASA does this every time, they schedule a press release and make an announcement of the release in order to give other agencies, journalists, academics, and politicians the opportunity to make arrangements.
We've probably discovered some sort of red dwarf system that has even more planets in the 'habitable zone', like 12 or so. Maybe they'll announce confirmation that one of the planets has an unexciting atmosphere, like mostly Argon and Nitrogen or something like that.
Not being rude, but if its another fucking stupid planet 1200 light-years away, I'm going to scream. At least if it was a Dyson Sphere or something unfathomable it would be important.
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If only they'd name the next rover "Attention"
They discovered a new black hole that has a slightly different behaviour than they expected
Probably Hubble spotting the James Webb telescope. Because why not.
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'for the record books' would seem to imply that they've captured an object or event considered so incredibly rare that they don't expect Hubble or JWST to ever encounter/observe another example again in the foreseeable future.
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Hubble has been combing the universe for so long that the babies born in the year of it's launch can operate it. What could it have possibly found that would warranty those powerful words?
Probably something with a mundane explanation but we're gonna say it's aliens anyway.
In science the record books means discovering a new phenomenon or process as opposed to simply gathering data points. Scientists spend decades and often entire careers waiting for results relevant enough that we add to our collective body of knowledge.
“We discovered an earth sized planet around a main sequence star 1200 light years away!”
It's going to be an April Fools joke.
It's April first next week
It is April fools next week, just sayin…
My guesses:
Ohh yeah.
I think I've read all 3 in the last month.
I never understood the last one. I thought we didn't know what dark matter was actually composed of? (which is why it's called dark) So how the hell do they know there's no dark matter in a galaxy?
My local astronomy club just had a presentation by a JPL scientist about using gravitational lensing to discover new exoplanets. It was recorded but we can't post the video until next week. Also some of the sources for data was not shared during the presentation and followup QnA. So I'd not be surprised if it is an exoplanet.
Hoping they discovered the Big Rip and we've got like 6 months to go.
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It's probably something that to most seems like not a big deal. I'm sure this subreddit will be excited either way though. I do of course always hope it is something to do with life in space but I doubt it.
They've found water on Mars.... again!
They found the Event Horizon floating in space. Definitely not life as we know it...
Next week is April 1st also
It's not posted to
Anyone know where the actual media advisory is? I wanted to check that out because it usually says who's presenting, which gives some insight into what they're going to be talking about. For this one the only source I can find is the Space article - which, being a Space article, is worthless - and a bunch of plagiarism sites which just copied the same story and threw a thesaurus at it.
Nothing here:
Check the NASA or Hubble social media platforms
The should really have a "Who is going to care" rating when teasing these discoveries:
Your rating tiers are perfect
Throw in an "Everything" tier to really make it ominous.
I’m guessing this one will be Scientific Community or Space Nerds
shouldn’t space nerds rank below educated people?
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"We've noticed odd signal waves emanating from far off, which abruptly stopped. Our telescope has noticed noticed a green mass of energy encircling the approximate source of this signal. Based on the initial pattern of the waves, we're naming this signal source The Eye"
I've been having trouble keeping track of our moon lately...
Outer Wilds-inspired?
At least our civilization would never be united for a common purpose, least of all for the pursuit of knowledge of any kind, so our planet won't be destroyed because of that.
I don't know what you are actually referencing.
Why tease? Seriously. It just invites speculation and inevitable disappointment when it is just some stale (to the lay person) announcement about some exotic star.
I'm convinced it's aliens and will be incredibly disappointed otherwise.
Or even better "here's a thing we basically knew already, we just didn't have the right kind of proof, here's that proof!"
Basically for funding reasons
So they can have a press conference and news people around maybe, or maybe just to build excitement.
It would be cool if it had something to do with all those people they hired to study the psychological impact of discovering alien life....
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Would be great if something like that was discovered by the humble Hubble after 30 years in service while the JWST is spooling up. Talk about stealing some thunder
To combat the current news cycle, I'd be happy with just something about Uranus.
They did what now?
I feel like it'll be something like water detected in the atmosphere of Proxima B, or a planet 'confirmed' in the Whirlpool or Andromeda galaxy. I think those type of things have been previously speculated or been raised to a likely status, but not outright confirmed. Not like it'll be aliens or something really wild.
Could totally see the "once in a lifetime" part being a microlensed object of some sort which are indeed often one and done.
‘We just spotted a spacecraft’!!!
Just imagine being the person making that mistake:
April Fool aside, the last two times they've done this have been anticlimactic at best. I'll cross my fingers but I'm not holding my breath.
What were the last two times?
That's not entirely fair. We get bombarded by fantastical claims and advance previews of new knowledge at the time. NASA could announce confirmation of proof of life on other planets and a ton of people would be like "yawn, we've figured on that a long time now, tell us something new like is there porn of this alien life?"
Tell you what....I'll hold my breath but not cross my fingers. Between the two of us we've got it covered while still hedging appropriately.
Please be aliens.... Please be aliens... Please be aliens...
Please don't eat us... Please don't eat us... Please don't eat us...
"Take us to your leader" "But all our leaders are dicks except that guy from Ukraine, he's alright, and could do with some help"
they saw my ass when i was taking out the bins in the nude woops
No, Uranus was previously discovered. This is a new discovery
The way the last years have been going, it's bound to be something that can be classified as an impending doom.
they are just now discovering the hubble telescope? did they forget they built it?
I'm sure they just took a picture of the James Webb
I'll be sad when Hubble is decommissioned.
The Extremely Large Telescope being built by European Southern Observatory is 40m in diameter with advanced adaptive optics to try and fix the atmospheric distortion uses visible light. I'm not sure on the exact details but it is far more powerful than hubble and probably around the power of Webb, it also only cost a fraction of the amount of Webb to build and so i think unless they can find a way to reduce the cost of space telescopes significantly, we will see an increase in extremely large visible light ground telescopes.
The
We all know it's not going to be aliens, and everyone's going to report it as "IS IT ALIENS!??!?" - then NASA will announce it's something scientifically very interesting, but not really to the general public after having the hype train tell them we've found aliens and then it'll just be a disappointment.
But like…I want it to be aliens. Boring nice ones.
I’m hoping for the discovery of a Dyson Sphere :-)
NASA announces announcement to be announced next week.
Pentagon to Announce Major Imminent Threat Next Week!
Tune in next week to find out about tomorrow's weather forecast
"Something in your dinner could kill you. More at 11"
The USGS will announce a major discovery regarding the
Please say they found nice aliens who wanna play Mario Kart
Fine.
Maybe something to test the waters first. That's what 1st of April is.
Guessing they either saw a goldilocks planet, some crazy-ass star-planet system, or our alien overlords
I don't understand how they have just discovered it? They've been getting photos from it for over 30 years, surely that was evidence enough it existed. I'm not even sure how they forgot they put it there in the first place.
Hubble discovered the far end of Putin's long-ass table
Next Friday is April 1st.
I thought we discovered that telescope in the 90s
Sounds like SOMEONE’s worried about a Mr. James Webb.
Most likely news:
“Last week, we discovered a meteor bound for Earth in seven days’ time. Thank you.”
Please be a Dyson sphere! Please be a Dyson sphere!
It's not dyson spheres
“We are pleased to announce we have found a celestial object that could potentially have a larger mass than yo mama!”
If this is the start of an april fools prank Im going to be pretty pissed. Then impressed with the planning. Then pissed some more. Then Ill move on with my day and probably get chipotle or something...
I expect to be disappointed. Only thing that would excite me is life outside earth which this news will not be.
Life outside Earth or a mass relay
We observed an alien spacecraft fly by earth and roll up their windows
Why does everyone have to announce things that's bout2b? TELL ME NOW or shut up and just tell me later. This better be good.
A week from now is April Fool's Day.
I really really dislike the trend of news about news. It's all over the place these days. How about when news breaks or something it's released, it makes the news then. Information travels fast enough now anyways, why does it matter that we get a heads up.
They intercepted an alien signal just before it cut out they caught the uncyphered message, "Please insert 50 cents..."
"We have been trying to teach you about your cars extended warranty..."
NASA, if you're reading this, I just have to say: After the last couple of years we've had, please just... don't.
Haven’t we known about this telescope for some time now?
They spotted a variable star - transmitting in morse code. Using English. Saying : “You are blocking our freeway development. Please prepare for roadwork for the next million years.”
Nasa just discovered the hubble space telescope? I've known about it for years
Gotta love announcements to announce announcements
NASA need to add a footnote to all their announcements of upcoming announcements.
NASA is setting up for a “Yo mama so fat…” joke
Hubble has been combing the universe for so long that the babies born in the year of it's launch can operate it. What could it have possibly found that would warranty those powerful words?
NASA will surely not deceive us, as with previous similar announcements. Can't wait to see it.
I've become desensitized to NASA's announcements on discoveries mostly because of Mars where there is some press conference followed by some follow up study a few years later that disputes it. Or there is some hype and the announcement ends up being something like "interesting rock found on Mars that looks like Big Chungus." Okay that last one was a joke but
It would be huge news if they found a rock that looks like big chungus!
Well they didn’t just shit it out onto EurekaAlert! So maybe it is something…🤔
It's harder to have discussion or Q&A through a press release. To do those well you need peoples' schedules to line up, which is what these "we're announcing something next week" notices are for.
So they're announcing an announcement, but making us wait rather than just telling us what it is. Stupid.
NASA does this every time, they schedule a press release and make an announcement of the release in order to give other agencies, journalists, academics, and politicians the opportunity to make arrangements.
Wonder if it’s an April Fool’s Day joke?
Well it is April fools day next week so don’t get too excited.
Wouldn't it be great if the discovery made us rethink our lives and stop wars.
I hope they pointed Hubble at the James Webb Telescope, and took a really high res image of it all unfolded.
I figured by now NASA would already know about Hubble, but maybe with all this James Webb noise they just up and forgot.
Listen, JWST is the absolute titts. The Hubble will forever the the GOAT.
It’s been up there for over thirty years and you’re just discovering it now?
Perhaps they can see Russia’s chance of winning the war leaving the solar system??
Pffff I’ve know about the Hubble space telescope for years! They’re only discovering it now?
The Webb telescope is so powerful I would not be surprised if they soon announce the discovery of city lights on one of the exo planets.
Please be alien, please be aliens, please be aliens
I thought they already knew where the Hubble telescope is?
It looked at earth and saw no intelligent life.
Pyramids on the moon?
We've probably discovered some sort of red dwarf system that has even more planets in the 'habitable zone', like 12 or so. Maybe they'll announce confirmation that one of the planets has an unexciting atmosphere, like mostly Argon and Nitrogen or something like that.
Me: “Aliens! Aliens! Aliens!”
why on earth do you make an announcement saying your going to have an announcement about something important. Just tell us, tell us now!
I'm hoping it's going to be something like a Dyson sphere or a wormhole. Well, I can dream, right?
Wait they've only just discovered the Hubble Space Telescope? That thing's been floating there for years
Don’t want to brag, but I discovered the Hubble telescope existed in 1998
April 1st is next week… April Fools Day… DON’T MESS WITH US NASA!!!
How come they keep losing this stupid telescope?
Why not just say whatever the fuck it is, NASA pisses me off
Dude, you can’t “discover” the Hubble telescope: you built it! You knew it was there the whole time!
Please don’t be a meteor headed for us. Sorry I just watched “Don’t look up”
I swear if it's another "we discovered water on Mars" announcement...
They discovered a spare Hubble Space Telescope in a closet, and a pile of cash to pay for the launch?
The announcement: “the asteroid will hit in three days. Goodbye!”
Please be aliens, it’s on my 2020’s bingo card.
Looks like they accidentally announced it in this title. Discovering the Hubble Space Telescope is pretty big, though.
I thought they've known about the Hubble space telescope for ages...
Not being rude, but if its another fucking stupid planet 1200 light-years away, I'm going to scream. At least if it was a Dyson Sphere or something unfathomable it would be important.
I'm not saying it's aliens... but it's aliens.
Tbf there wouldn't be a a build-up if it was a big enough discovery. The whole exercise is oxymoronic
Hubble discovered the other telescope that outperforms it
I thought they found out the Hubble Space Telescope existed way back in the '90s.
They found a galaxy that is older than the known universe.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/record-broken-hubble-spots-farthest-star-ever-seen
We’re living in a miniverse inside of a larger universe.
That just sounds like slavery but with extra steps
Wait did they just discover that there is a Hubble Space Telescope?
Hubble did an ultra deep field of Putins crotch and discovered his micro PP?
I bet it's going to be another planet that is so far that we won't be able to reach ever
Staff turnover at NASA is so high, noobs are only now discovering Hubble.
If it were anything interesting it would have already broken news.
Nah they are a public agency but they can keep it closed doors for a while before releasing the info
Please let it be " dinosaur extinction" level comet. We so deserve it.
Thats not on my jackpot bingo card.
Why? What have your family done?
Lemme guess they are gonna announce the discovery of another bundle of gas/rock/ or the recording of something only ever theorized??? LMAO
Please be an adteroid headed for russia please be an adteroid headed for russia
It's been up there since 1990, and they only just discovered it? I've lost all respect for NASA.
I wish its Putin billions of light years from earth.
Hoping for an asteroid on a direct collision course with this planet 🤞
That thing still alive? No, really Im serious 🧐