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That's cool, though I wonder how many astronomers and astrophysicists will be legitimately bummed by this. On the one hand, you get more data to go over and you have to spend less time searching and potentially missing important events. On the other hand, I'd imagine that staring at the stars is part of the draw of those fields.
They will still get the opportunity to do observations and imaging.
The tools described in the article are used to help with the analysis of already created images. This is actually an extremely tedious and time-consuming process where it's not uncommon to rely on volunteer crowdsourcing just due to the sheer volume of pictures. The larger telescopes around the world are almost always taking images of the sky looking for changes for one reason or another.