Topic

Astronomical Data Archives

Curated repositories of past telescope observations, maintained so that data can be searched and re-analysed years after the original observing programme ended.

Current clusters

science1 publisher

Richard de Grijs expects Roman to make searching archives the core skill in astronomy

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope should return its first images in early 2027, and its Wide Field Instrument will deliver them over at least 100 times the sky Hubble frames in a single pointing.

Publishers:physicsworld.com

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption55
Hype gap+15
Incentives50
Confidence58

science4 publishers

Archival NASA-funded data confirm youngest known planet at under a million years old

Elias 2-24 b sits in a disk gap 55 times Earth's distance from its star, where formation models ask for at least five million years to build a Jupiter. Keck coronagraph images from 2018 and 2020 put it under a million years old.

Publishers:livescience.comnasa.govphys.orgsciencedaily.com

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers

Builder: Builder 51%
Operator: Operator 31%
Investor: Investor 18%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption22
Hype gap+25
Incentives65
Confidence58