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Old 08-July-2004, 05:52 PM
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A free software plug-in, released today, makes a treasure trove of archival astronomical images and spectra from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and many other famous telescopes accessible to home astronomy enthusiasts.
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Hrmm, I can see this being a double edged sword, at least for those folk here who frequent GLP. "Look what happens when I do 40,000 different filter operations to this JPEG compression anomoly free image! The result HAS to be real!"

On the other negative side, now I have one less motivator for actually booting to linux.
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Hrmm, I can see this being a double edged sword, at least for those folk here who frequent GLP. "Look what happens when I do 40,000 different filter operations to this JPEG compression anomoly free image! The result HAS to be real!"
I can't help but agree, despite being quite pleased about the release.
As if the perpetual misinterpretations of SOHO imagery weren't already enough... whew, just wait a few days...

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