NASA: Fill in a name, and you can have an exclusive coordinate in the universe

kuratkull

But which one is mine? :S

lucascacho

What a great way to harvest an email list lol

8cvor6j844qw_d6

Is this an NFT without the block chain? Sounds like it from a quick skim.

pixelesque

Title doesn't match submission: it's not really a "coordinate" in 3D space, you "adopt" a pixel from the early imagery taken by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Maybe that can be reverse-projected back to something like a coordinate (if you know the distance), but it's not the same thing.

ButlerianJihad

OK, I adopted Pixel 00150921. It has some nice divisors including 9. Hit me up.

andrewstuart

I wish to be named Emperor of One Thousand Galaxies.

vharuck

I'm happily surprised they didn't ask for money.

PowerElectronix

Good try, federal agency, good try.

walrus01

Maybe we could map a discrete GUID to some amount of cubic volume of the universe and say that you 'own' that GUID and cubic volume of space. Referencing how many possible GUID can exist: The total number of theoretically possible GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifiers) is 2¹²⁸, which equals exactly 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456. This is approximately 3.4 × 10³⁸ (340 undecillion) unique values a really quick calculation says that if you assigned every cubic area of the universe (ignoring that it's spherical?!) to a single GUID, each GUID would 'own' a cube of space about 680 AU on each side. So there's not really that many GUID.

kotaKat

If I adopt a coordinate, does that make me a Space Lord or Space Baron?

swader999

Is lake Michigan taken?

mhalikosen

The generated image has an em dash in it.

rbanffy

It’d be nice if we could see the pixel in an image preview. We have images for every pixel assignable, some even as sharp as the ones the telescope will get.

nashashmi

I got to say that while i had heard about jwst every week or so on how it was getting delayed and being overrun with costs, I didnt hear anything about Nancy grace. They were similar in price too.

baggachipz

Joke's on them, I already own a star from the International Star Registry 8)

NoGravitas

My exclusive coordinates are whatever space I currently occupy.

ChrisArchitect

Title closer to original: Adopt a Pixel on one of the first images from NASA Nancy Grace Roman Telescope

librasteve

here is a product preview .

lurn_mor

I love the official certificate! Well worth my email address!

BearBest

Fair correction: this is a pixel in Roman’s detector and its corresponding image data, not a permanently owned 3D location in the universe.