Being an astronomer in the year 2030 will be notably different than it is today. Yes, scientists will still be pondering, among other mysteries, the evolving universe, life on other worlds, and the nature of dark energy.
But how they explore the heavens is already changing because of a ballooning archive of everything in the universe that has ever been looked at. In addition, amateur astronomers are becoming more heavily involved than ever because of the “democratization” of space via huge publically accessible astronomical databases.
The consequences are that we are on the cusp of a knowledge explosion in astronomy where discoveries will be expanding at an unprecedented rate across to globe. Our knowledge of the universe is becoming, well, inflationary.
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