Dustin Lang (Perimeter) and I spoke today about many things, but the conversation got de-railed when Lang showed me his visualizations of the brand-new NASA SPHEREx data. Oh. My. Goodness. First of all, the data are being released daily, before the team has done its analysis, so that anyone in the world can do anything with it. Talk about open! Talk about international! Talk about everything I believe about astrophysics! Also, the data are well documented, high in signal to noise, and released with good and useful metadata. This is killer. Of course Lang has already made a viewer for it and can do all comparisons to the DESI data. Get in touch with him if you want tools.
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