Most likely. I doubt there is going to be any serious investment in astronomy over the next decade given economic headwinds and a deteriorating strategic situation. The big money will be going into defense and economic sovereignty and building/launching new high powered telescopes will not be a priority. Optical/sensor advances will be prioritized for earth observation (commercial, military, or weather/climate) and it maybe that we're in an era of diminishing technological returns already. I do expect a lot of analytical advances thanks to the combination of open datasets and AI, although it seems more likely that most of these will be in stamp collecting - interesting astronomical facts for people who are already interested in astronomy. Hard to guess if we will see challenges to prevailing cosmological theories.

Direct link to Legacy Survey Sky Viewer: https://viewer.legacysurvey.org

Are there any particularily detailed areas? But maybe the humbling reality is just: The closer we look, the more galaxies appear where we thought was black void…

https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=80.3728&dec=-69.4497&lay...

/jk

[1] https://ubu.com/sound/ligeti.html

To paraphrase Samuel L Jackson - "I have had it with this m'f'ing space on a plane! Everybody strap in I'm about to open some f'in' windows."

Proceeds to crank open an array of telescopes to get another 3D perspective of a 4D universe so we can project it onto our 2D viewing devices as if that were reality.

[1] https://news.mit.edu/2026/astronomers-discover-brand-new-typ...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/01/a-logarithmic-map-of-...

https://www.ouruboroi.com/moire3

this is fascinating wish there was a 360 VR version of this

truly immense scale

It's going to do the best surveys EVER, like exponentially better

* https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14942/

I thought for sure DOGE was going to kill it, or even rename it after him instead

But the smallest planet Roman will be able to see would be Jupiter sized

There was however going to be another telescope scheduled to launch in 2040 that could find earth-like worlds

Fittingly enough it is called the "Habitable Worlds Telescope"

but you know what, DOGE got that one

Congress allocated $150 Million to begin development this year

Somehow the executive branch pocketed that and changed it to $5 Million instead despite having no right to do that

Yet another crime against science by this administration

Hoping new Congress in January 2027 can fix this but I doubt it as too much of the rest of the country is "on fire" that has to be put out first

So now won't be able to see its results in my lifetime