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Y'know, standing back from it all, we really are privileged to experience all this new data coming from technologies like orbiting multi-spectral telescopes, LHCs, ground based adaptive optics, etc.
Just about every day there's more new discoveries coming from the professionals.
At the amateur level, a few years ago, it would have been unheard of for anyone to be able to afford say, a 12" tracking newtonian, (or an SCT), equipped for imaging etc, in their back yard, let alone having the capability to discover a nova.
The 'Golden Age of Cosmology' - perhaps a good topic for the 'General Chat' board.
Cheers
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