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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 23/06/2026

whoa - the JWST CMDs of globular clusters in this paper are ridiculous!! arxiv.org/abs/2606.20979

Color-magnitude diagrams of six globular clusters with extremely good photometric precision, which show split and multiple populations.

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 20/04/2026

A cool demonstration of @astropy.org + SunPy functionality with Artemis II! sunpy.org/posts/2026/a... 🔭

A coordinate-aligned view of the solar eclipse viewed by the Artemis II mission.

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 10/04/2026

🪐 🤝 🌌 Join us at the Planets in the Galactic Context workshop at the @flatironinstitute.org this September! The goal is to identify and define exciting questions at the intersection of exoplanet and Galactic science. Apply by June 5! planet-galaxy-workshop.github.io 🔭 #galactic #exoplanets

Cartoon of a spiral galaxy with planets swirling around.

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 02/02/2026

Working on my first FA paper in the era of LLM, so it was important to me to develop a position on how I want to use them in my work. IMO it makes sense to acknowledge and state how these tools were used! But I suspect many are using without limits or a position on how...

The lead author's position on using AI tools in research and writing can be summarized
as: use them as you would use a colleague.
They can help with brainstorming, literature review, and organizing ideas, but the core
intellectual work, derivations, and writing should be done by the authors themselves.
As such, this work made use of Claude (Anthropic) as a tool to help provide entrypoints
into the relevant literature and to help brainstorm the scope and outline of this
work.
All text was written by the authors, all derivations were done by the authors, and the
associated code was developed using GitHub copilot as an assistant.

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 06/07/2025

though the subject is dark, I'm loving @bsky.app because it enables random intersections like this — between some favorite political @aoc.bsky.social, scientific @chanda.bsky.social @philplait.bsky.social, and art/music @rob-sheridan.com people I follow

A screenshot of a bluesky retweet by AOC of a thread by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein with comments down the thread by Rob Sheridan and Phil Plait.

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 17/06/2025

Normally my brain doesn't see or register the truly bizarre ads that appear randomly throughout the internet (e.g., on www.wunderground.com pages). But ... what ... why ... who ...

A bizarre internet ad with a man (?) possibly about to insert another man (?) or corpse into a third man's anus?!?

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 11/03/2025

Last week I gave a review talk on stellar streams, so I updated this interactive visualization of our latest compilation of streams around the Milky Way (and added one of @stefanpw.bsky.social's Milky Way renders, for context): adrian.pw/visualizatio...

A screenshot of an interactive 3D visualization of known stellar streams around the Milky Way.

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 13/02/2025

some accidental art for a brief distraction

a psychedelic matplotlib figure made accidentally by visualizing dynamical resonances

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 15/01/2025

ha - I walked by a few minutes after he took this and only just realized @benstiller.redhour.com was in the background crowd

A photo of the Severance cast PR event at Grand Central

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 17/12/2024

Astronomers: The scientific literature is a record of human intellectual advancement and creativity. Also astronomers:

DeepWiener: Neural Networks for CMB polarization maps and power spectrum computation

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 30/10/2024

yep, that pretty much sums it all up! please #vote

A screenshot from CNN that reads "Harris’ Pennsylvania remarks were interrupted by protesters shouting something unintelligible"

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 20/10/2024

finally caught comet a3 from just north of NYC!

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 07/09/2024

found a ring next to this should I put it on, precious?

a leaf that looks like the eye of Sauron

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 12/06/2024

wait...is the Hunter Biden case actually a psyop on republicans?

Two button meme: left button "prosecute hunter biden", right button "fight background checks for gun purchases"

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 31/05/2024

Paper day! Here is our attempt to summarize the exciting revolution Gaia has brought to the study of stellar streams around the Milky Way, as a part of a special issue of New Astronomy Reviews: arxiv.org/abs/2405.19410 🔭

An artistic visualization of member stars of all known stellar streams around the Milky Way galaxy

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 05/04/2024

Earthquake today, eclipse Monday, and these guys just showed up to deliver my Amazon package -- should I be concerned?

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 29/01/2024

it was right there all along

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 15/11/2023

It's still wild to me that this is a real feature, out there in the kinematics of stars in the Milky Way, showing that our theory of orbital dynamics works on the scales of galaxies as it does for things in the solar system. Also that the Milky Way got slapped (rude)

A five panel figure showing the vertical phase space (z and vz) of stars in a region of the Milky Way's disk with an equilibrium model subtracted out. What is left is a spiral pattern that is a clear imprint of a phase-mixing perturbation. This uses data from the Gaia Mission.

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 06/09/2023

Take your moon everywhere! Even to "Appointment"

A four-panel set of photographs of people with a moon light. Panels read "Children Playing", "Appointment", "Working", and "Sleeping". No one knows what "Appointment" means

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