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Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg @obsstrasbourg.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Rodrigo Ibata reçoit le prix Kavli 2026 en astrophysique. Spécialiste de l'archéologie galactique, il est récompensé pour l’étude des débris d’anciennes galaxies qui a permis de reconstituer l’histoire de la Voie lactée. @cnrs.fr @cnrs-insu.bsky.social @unistra.fr @kavliprize.bsky.social

Rodrigo Ibata, lauréat du prix Kavli 2026.

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Very proud of the whole Aladin team who made this possible.

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Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) @cdsportal.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

A lot of new planetary HiPS surveys are presented by @bochthomas.bsky.social in the #IVOA interoperability meeting's Solar System Interest Group session in Görlitz. Try the Mars roulette demo page to explore Mars MRO CTX data (6m/pixel resolution !). aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/s...

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Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) @cdsportal.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

No CDS oral presentation today at #ADASS2025, but can you spot #AladinLite usage in the talks given by Christophe Arviset and Erik Tollerud ?

Christophe Arviset's presentation during #ADASS2025

Erik Tollerud's presentation during #ADASS2025

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Fresh from Mars! 🔴 Updated Mars MRO CTX HiPS with V01 data from @caltech.edu Murray Lab now available: 👉 alasky.cds.unistra.fr/CDS_P_Mars_M... If you want to explore the Red Planet in a fun way, try Mars Roulette, every reload creates new random: 🎲 aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/s...

Mars roulette snapshot: thumbnails of random Mars regions

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

We just published at @cdsportal.bsky.social a color HiPS for Hubble Space Telescope images, combining 18 individual HiPS. This data product gives an accurate preview of the HST archive content, spatially and spectrally. Explore it interactively in Aladin Lite: alasky.cds.unistra.fr/HST-hips/col...

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

WIP: Plan oblique HiPS map of Alsace region. Elevation data from @ignfrance.bsky.social RGE ALTI - Water ways data from @openstreetmap.bsky.social High-resolution image of the map: filesender.renater.fr?s=download&t... Final goal is to deliver a similar interactive map for the whole France.

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

While at CDS, the Aladin project mainly deals with deep sky images, we also map planetary surfaces. We released the HiPS of China's Tianwen-1 MoRIC images, a true-color map of Mars at 76m resolution. Interact with this awesome dataset in Aladin Lite at alasky.cds.unistra.fr/Planets/CDS_...

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I arrive here having finished a major, multi-month project: creating a posters in a hachure style reminiscent of centuries past. Have a look: terrainlines.etsy.com. There's a free ebook, too! somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/a... If you could share them around, I would be grateful!

A black and white sketch of Mount Hood, seen from a roughly ground level view. It is in a black frame, and on a blue background. Off to the left are a vertically stacked series of smaller images, too small to read. Each is different-looking, but all are black and white miniature versions of posters. The miniature version of the Mount Hood poster is highlighted in white.

Sample images of three monochrome posters each prepared in a line drawing style. One shows Mount Rainier, another Katahdin, and the last one shows Devil's tower. The posters are stacked on top of each other and the Mount Rainier one is partially rolled up.

A detailed zoom in of a hachured representation of the Presidential Range, with peaks labeled.

A vertical-orientation poster titled "The Seven Summits" — it shows black and white sketches of seven different peaks, the highest on each continent. The peak sketches alternate between being positioned on the left and the right side of the poster. Next to each is a label naming the mountain and giving its location. The poster is framed on a blue background.

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

@vrubinobs.bsky.social First Look images are amazing. We created a page with image cutouts of all 80,000+ SIMBAD objects in the published fields: alasky.cds.unistra.fr/rubin-firstl... Click on an object thumbnail to explore further interactively in Aladin Lite. cc @lsst-france.bsky.social

Cutouts of objects in Rubin first look images

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

SkyMapper DR4 color HiPS has just been published in the HiPS network. Explore it interactively in Aladin Lite: alasky.cds.unistra.fr/Skymapper/DR...

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Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg @obsstrasbourg.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Vous avez probablement vu les premières images spectaculaires du Vera C. Rubin telescope publiées cette semaine. Mais saviez-vous que leur visualiseur Skyviewer repose sur #AladinLite, développé par le @cdsportal.bsky.social ? Plongez-vous dans ces nouvelles données : cds.unistra.fr/fr/news/2025...

Vera C. Rubin Observatory's view of the Virgo Cluster.
Credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The HiPS for V. Rubin observatory @VRubinObs First Lookup images is available in the HiPS network. It encompasses the two fields "Cosmic Treasure Chest" and "The Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae". alasky.cds.unistra.fr/Rubin/CDS_P_... #IVOA #AladinLite

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Very nice visualization of Rubin first images, powered by Aladin Lite

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I strongly recommend playing with @vrubinobs.bsky.social's just released Skyviewer app, which has a tour and the Virgo data loaded. Go play here: skyviewer.app

skyviewer.app

Skyviewer

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

HiPS for SkyMapper DR4 i-band images is now available in the HiPS network: alasky.cds.unistra.fr/Skymapper/DR... #AladinLite

All-sky view of SkyMapper DR4 i-band HiPS

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Thomas Boch @bochthomas.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

HiPS for SkyMapper DR4 g-band images is live and available at alasky.cds.unistra.fr/Skymapper/DR...

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