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Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle

Hubble's radiation damage timing may affect future observation planning.

Steady

16

signal score

as of 3d ago

Steady

7-day est. ~13

Why this scored 16

every term, weighted
Velocity+0.0 / 40 max

Engagement gained per hour since the last capture, against the fastest item on its own source

Acceleration+11.3 / 25 max

Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate

Cross-source spread+0.0 / 25 max

How many independent communities are talking about the same entity

Recency+7.9 / 10 max

Decays to zero over 14 days

Saturation penalty2.7 / 30 max

Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked

Composite16.5

Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement, and velocity falls back to engagement over its whole lifetime until a second reading exists. Full methodology

Outlook

low confidence · estimate, not a guarantee

7-day

~13

range 024

14-day

~9

range 023

30-day

~0

range 018

Signal history

7-day window (free)

— — projected trajectory (estimate, not a guarantee)

Entities

hubble telescope
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