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ESO @eso.org · 30/12/2024

Like mushrooms 🍄, telescopes atop ESO’s La Silla Observatory are bathed in the dim light of the sunset. 👈 The Danish 1.54-metre telescope 👉 The 3 BlackGEM_Array telescopes Which cosmic signals do they hunt for? Find out: www.eso.org/public/images/potw2453a 📷 ESO/I. Saviane

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

President Jimmy Carter has passed away at the age of 100. He was a symbol of what is best about America: kindness, compassion, duty and service. He will be missed, most of all by those who long for a return of that kind of country, led by a man with such strength of character.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Holy cow, look at that primary mirror! It's the same size as Hubble's (2.4m) but 4x lighter. And its field of view is 100x wider than Hubble (compare the small box versus the full color image in the picture below), with Hubble's resolution.

a large telescope mirror in a clean room being examined by a worker in protective gear

an image of the pillars of creation and surrounding area on the sky. The image is centered on a small box showing hubble's field of view. The much larger field of view of Roman shows much more of the environment.

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Wolf-Rayet star WR 124. WR stars are one of the most hottest stars in the universe. Processed JWST/NIRCam data by @thocarp.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/19746... 🔭 🧪

This stunning infrared image from JWST's NIRCam reveals the turbulent environment surrounding the Wolf-Rayet star WR 124. The image showcases a complex, asymmetric nebula of gas and dust expelled by the star's powerful stellar winds, glowing brightly in infrared light. These intricate structures offer valuable insights into the late stages of massive star evolution, specifically the process of mass loss that enriches the interstellar medium with heavy elements. The high resolution of NIRCam allows scientists to study the composition and dynamics of this ejected material in unprecedented detail, providing a deeper understanding of how massive stars contribute to the evolution of galaxies.

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The stars in NGC 602 have fewer heavier elements compared to the Sun and most of the rest of the galaxy. Instead, the conditions within NGC 602 mimic those for stars found billions of years ago when the universe was much younger. chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2024/n... 🔭 🧪

This stunning composite image from the James Webb and Chandra telescopes reveals the intricate details of NGC 602, a young star cluster nestled within the Small Magellanic Cloud. Webb's infrared observations pierce through dust to reveal nascent stars and intricate dust structures, while Chandra's X-ray data highlights the hot gas sculpted by powerful stellar winds and supernova explosions from the cluster's massive stars. The resulting image showcases a vibrant tapestry of colors, with swirling patterns of red, green, and blue illuminating the interplay between star formation and the surrounding interstellar medium, offering valuable insights into the evolution of star clusters and their impact on galactic environments.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/12/2024

Head into next week with the confidence of a crow. 🪶

A black crow struts across a wooden deck

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Just simply wow 💫😲💫😲💫😲💫 Millions of galaxies using real data from the DESI telescope (Dark Enegy Spectroscopy) mapping entire superclusters of the observable Universe.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

IT WAS 62 YEARS AGO TODAY that we became an interplanetary species. 12/14/1962 Mariner 2 flyby of Venus revealed Earth's sibling planet to be a hellishly hot greenhouse world, ushering in an age of comparative planetology which has taught us so much about planets including Earth.

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

1/11 🧪 🔭 #extragalactic This gem, released by Hubble last August, gives us a unique ultraviolet view of the active star cluster NGC 346. Image source and info➡️ science.nasa.gov/centers-and-... Observations in ultraviolet light⤵️

This Hubble image shows, in ultraviolet wavelengths of light, a
spectacular star cluster, known as NGC 346, nested within the Small
Magellanic Cloud. Dozens of hot, blue, and high-mass stars shine
within NGC 346.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Happy #QuantumDay to all who celebrate! Max Planck submitted work on blackbody radiation to the German Physical Society #OTD in 1900. His novel “quantum hypothesis” suggested that matter emits and absorbs light with frequency f only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf. 🧪 ⚛️ (1/n) Image: AIP

A black and white photo of Max Planck. His arms are crossed and he is looking at the camera. Planck has a substantial mustache and his hair is receding. He is wearing a heavy, dark suit with a high-collared white shirt and a small black bowtie.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Today's NASA Exoplanet Archive release included: - 19 new planets! 🎉 - 1 demoted planet 😭 - atmospheric spectra for four planets 🌈 - updates for three dozen known planets 🪐 - the first release of data from a whole new mission - the Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE), a NASA CubeSat! 🛰️

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a man is walking down a hallway with a suitcase and a backpack .

Alt: George Michael walks down a hallway and falls face down on the floor

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

NIRCam view of Cartwheel galaxy. Processed by @thocarp.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/19746... 🔭 🧪

A captivating image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy resembles a wagon wheel, with a bright central hub and multiple rings of stars and dust. The inner ring is a region of intense star formation, while the outer ring is expanding outward, pushing into the surrounding gas and triggering star formation in its path. The image also reveals distant galaxies in the background, showcasing the vastness of the universe.

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NMSI @nmsi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Today is Grace Hopper Day! As a pioneer in computer science, Grace Hopper showed us that nothing is impossible with determination and creativity. What can we do today to inspire the next generation of innovators like Grace Hopper? #GraceHopperDay #STEMEducation #SchoolLeaders #WomenInSTEM #EduSky

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Science Explorist @scipexplorist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

James Webb telescope just dropped its latest image, Neptune, and its rings.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

NEW WEBB DISCOVERY!!! ✨ FOR THE FIRST TIME, JWST HAS DETECTED A GALAXY FORMING STARS 600 MILLION YEARS AFTER THE BIG BANG THAT WEIGHS AS MUCH AS THE YOUNG MILKY WAY! 🌌

A zoomed in view of the area around the Firefly Sparkle galaxy. There are two smaller circles flanking a larger oval at the center. The central oval is labeled Firefly Sparkle galaxy. Within it is a long line, roughly pointing from bottom left to top right that contains 10 circular star clusters in pink, purple, and blue. The galaxy to the bottom left is labeled Companion 1 and looks like a bright red dot. At top right, Companion 2 is lighter red and surrounded by a red disk.

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

BREAKING 🚨: NASA dropped a new James Webb telescope deep space image 💫💫💫 All the eight-sided features are stars in the Milky Way, everything else is a galaxy 🤯

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Physicist Max Born was...born... #OTD in 1882. In 1926 he formulated a rule for the statistical likelihood of a measurement on a quantum system yielding a particular outcome. Born’s rule says the probability is the square of an amplitude obtained from the system’s wave function. (1/n) 🧪 ⚛️

Black and white photo of Max Born. He appears to be in his forties or early fifties. His hair is receding a bit, and he wears a dark gray suit with white shirt. Born is looking directly at the camera.

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Aw, Universe, why do you have to be this way? We've been suspicious for a while that the expansion of the cosmos is doing weird stuff, and new results from JWST seem to confirm it. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/jwst-yup-t... 🧪🔭

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JWST: Yup, the Universe is expanding weirdly

The Hubble tension is alive and well: JWST appears to confirm the cosmic expansion is different closer to us than farther away

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Tatiana Paz @funkyscience.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I remember several years ago in a CS class the prof. Told us that this will take off quickly once the hardware catches up. And here we are! What a time to be alive :D

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

A Camponotus melanoticus worker ant carries a bit of sand up from a nest excavation in a fragment of the Brazilian cerrado. #insects

Macro photo of a leggy dark brown ant in side view standing on sand, holding a clump of wet sand about the size of its own head in its mandibles.

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Tatiana Paz @funkyscience.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Yes, we MUST do better to ensure information is available to drive policy. Engaging National Labs is important as well.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/12/2024

Today's #arXiv papers of interest! 🔭⚛️🧪 This one considers a scenario where dark matter is comprised of multiple components rather than only one type of particle. It has two mediators, dark Higgs and dark photon. #cosmology arxiv.org/abs/2412.02027

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Multi-component secluded WIMP dark matter and Dirac neutrino masses with an extra Abelian gauge symmetry

Scenarios for secluded WIMP dark matter models have been extensively studied in simplified versions. This paper shows a complete UV realization of a secluded WIMP dark matter model with an extra Abeli...

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Huei Sears, PhD 🌟 @starlights.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I’m really excited about this project !! It’s so cool we can still see the afterglow — most GRBs are only followed to ~ 12 days in the optical 🔭 #highenergyastro et al. incl. @pjvphotography.bsky.social @tanmoylaskar.bsky.social @danmil.bsky.social @bmetzger.bsky.social + others offline✨

Figure 1 from the paper linked paper. Three panels. The top is a composite HST/JWST image. The GRB afterglow is clearly visible in the host galaxy at the center of the image. The bottom left is a composite HST image. The afterglow is blended with the host galaxy. The bottom right is a composite JWST image. The afterglow appears red and is clearly
visible in the host galaxy.

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Tatiana Paz @funkyscience.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Jupiter and its moons last night. Taken with my iPhone :)

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Amazing: In the center of star-forming region 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known. Credit: NASA, J. Trauger (JPL), J. Westphal (Caltech)

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Curiosity @mcuriosity.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

New Webb Image Captures Clearest View of Neptune’s Rings in Decades Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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FarLife @farlife.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Neutron stars are the densest visible objects in the Universe. We’ve discovered a neutron star that’s twice as massive as our Sun with a diameter of only 26 km. That’s smaller than New York City! One sugar-cube worth of neutron-star material weighs 100 million tons. Astounding. 🤯

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I got to write in Scientific American about one of my all-time favorite cosmic objects: Barnard 68! It's like a hole in space, except… it isn't. www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... 🧪🔭

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What’s Inside Our Galaxy’s Darkest Place?

Barnard 68 is often mistaken for a hole in space, but it’s actually a dense, opaque cloud of dust—for now

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Astronomy pictures @astronomers.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Hubble snaps NGC 5189 Credit:NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope celebrates the holiday season with a striking image of the planetary nebula NGC 5189. The intricate structure of the stellar eruption looks like a giant and brightly coloured ribbon in space.

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Tatiana Paz @funkyscience.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Dinner at La Silla around 2000. Remembering all my friends.

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Gorgeous! The Elephant Trunk Nebula: a dense, elongated cloud of gas inside a bright cluster of stars also known as IC 1396. The trunk conceals many young protostars that are in the process of forming (Credit: T.A. Rector and WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

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Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Please read this and do these small effort/huge rewards for inclusivity things. 💜

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Asthetics @astheticss.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The largest volcano in the solar system is three times taller than Mount Everest. Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system. The enormous volcano is 16 miles tall and stretches 374 miles wide—approximately the same size as the state of Arizona, according to NASA.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Star gazers in ancient Mesopotamia focused on recurring stuff like planetary motion, but sometimes they wrote about meteors. Watching from Babylon, one wrote: “Night of the 7th, last part of the night, a meteor which was very bright in the middle of the sky” oracc.museum.upenn.edu//adsd/adart1...

Two broken tablets pieced together to make up a joined-up fragment that is photographed from the front, back, and sides. One fragment is lighter beige than the other which is more of a light brown. The tablets are covered in partly damaged cuneiform script. At the bottom, a multicoloured ruler with the British Museum watermark shows it to be 5cm wide. Below the screenshot photo is the credit: “Photography by Ivor Kerslake (LMU Munich), copyright The Trustees of the British Museum”

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Tatiana Paz @funkyscience.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Things that shine in the dark: clear mind, moon, glowing running partner on night run :)

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Leigh Fletcher @leighfletcher.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (i.e., the heliophysics decadal) was released today, and I was curious to see what it had to say about #UranusFlagship and cross-division collaboration between #heliophysics and #planetaryscience: leighfletcher.substack.com/p/uranus-in-...

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Uranus in NASA's Heliophysics Decadal Survey 2024-33

A new National Academies’ decadal survey - The Next Decade of Discovery in Solar and Space Physics: Exploring and Safeguarding Humanity’s Home in Space - was released today, showcasing a potential US ...

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Here's a view of a crescent-lit Earth beyond the limb of the Moon, captured on December 5, 2022 during NASA's Orion spacecraft's Artemis I return flyby with a camera installed on the ESA service module.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/12/2024

Well, it was nice having a public and publicly accountable astrophysics and space flight program while we had it 🔭 What people don't appreciate is that NASA is one of the world's largest climate change research organizations. So, fuck. Fuck fuck fuck www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024...

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Trump picks billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman to head NASA

Isaacman has orbited the planet twice on private spaceflights.

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Ruben Ohana @rubenohana.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Generating cat videos is nice, but what if you could tackle real scientific problems with the same methods? 🧪🌌 Introducing The Well: 16 datasets (15TB) for Machine Learning, from astrophysics to fluid dynamics and biology. 🐙: github.com/PolymathicAI... 📜: openreview.net/pdf?id=00Sx5...

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