• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    That’s like, their whole life, it sounds like.

    Geologists stare at rock formations, astronomers stare at fuzzy pixels. In both cases they study crazy things from deep time, but in a way that would slowly drive me mad.

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      3 months ago

      You can tell a lot from how a CMOS or CCD picks up a couple photons