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by lisper 1253 days ago
"Hubble can't photograph the AT2022dsb tidal event's mayhem up close, since the munched-up star is nearly 300 million light-years away at the core of the galaxy ESO 583-G004. But astronomers used Hubble's powerful ultraviolet sensitivity to study the light from the shredded star, which include hydrogen, carbon, and more. The spectroscopy provides forensic clues to the black hole homicide." - TFA
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Then the title should've been "Hubble smelled sulfur in the air"
What in the title made you expect to see a photograph
- "Hubble" - i.e. that space telescope that's well-known by general public to shoot photographs.

- "finds a <very specific and visceral description of an extraordinary phenomenon>" - kind of implies you have a little more to go on than a spectrogram and a shipload of PhD-level math used to divine conclusions from it.

Likely a correlation with a telescope that records photons frequently leading to photographs.
It's an immensely visual title in its description.