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Giorgia Busso

@giobusso.bsky.social
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Astrophysicist working on @ESAGaia in Cambridge. Italian from Venice. Music Listener to (almost) everything. Daily cyclist 🚲 weekly rower 🚣‍♀️

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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To celebrate the upcoming Gaia DR4 (✨2 December 2026✨) there is an art competition to create art inspired by the Milky Way. If you're active in school outreach or you have kids, share this with their teachers! www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/schools/inspired-by-the-milky-way
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Inspired by the Milky Way - Gaia - Cosmos
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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Wow! 😲🔭
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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
That was fun! #FRAENG ⚽⚽⚽
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Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Stars of physics are in Westminster right now to call on the Government to halt funding cuts to astronomy and particle physics research. Professor Brian Cox called them "inexplicable", urging the Government to instead "trust, inspire and continue to invest in the next generation of scientists".
Stars of physics outside the Houses of Parliament.
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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I feel like I couldn't really miss this beer #cambridgebeerfestival
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Alessandra Candian @donnainfiorino.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
56 of our wonderful colleagues at in the #Physics & #Astronomy department in Nottingham (UK) received “at risk of redundancy” letters. Their University is planning to reduce the size of the Physics department by a third. Consider sign the open letter: 🔭 nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/
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Save Nottingham Physics and Astronomy
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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The beans have been spilled 🫘Gaia DR4 date is released! 2 December 2026, mark the date for another overwhelmingly huge release www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dat...
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Gaia Sky @gaiasky.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🍎 To all macOS users: Gaia Sky can now be installed via brew! Learn more here: gaia.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/gaiasky/docs...
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Installation — Gaia Sky docs
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Hooray for Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin who now has her own blue plaque in London. 🔭 www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-p... (Thanks to @helenarney.bsky.social for reminding me)
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | Astronomer | blue plaques
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was widely considered the most eminent woman astronomer of the mid-20th century. She is recognised by a plaque at the home where she grew up, 70 Lansdowne Road.
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Gaia Sky @gaiasky.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I liked this #ArtemisII picture of the Moon so much, that I tried to recreate it in #GaiaSky. Left is the real picture, right is Gaia Sky.
"A Moment with the Moon" picture, aken by the Artemis II crew at 2:19 p.m. EDT.Recreation of "A Moment with the Moon" in Gaia Sky.
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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This magnolia tree is a gift and it almost died. It's the first flower that has blossomed since I have it. This gives me some hope for the world. #firstflower #peace
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Gaia Sky @gaiasky.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
A new Gaia Sky release is in the horizon. What are the new featrues? Here is a writeup detailing them. 👇 gaiasky.space/news/2026/3....
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Gaia Sky | What's new in upcoming Gaia Sky 3.7.2
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
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Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The Eddington Medal has been won by Prof Debora Šijački, of @cambridgeastro.bsky.social, who said she was "profoundly honoured". She's made outstanding contributions to our understanding of the role Active Galactic Nuclei play in the evolution of galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the universe. ⤵️
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Matthew Kenworthy @mattkenworthy.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Lammers and Winn “On the Exoplanet Yield of Gaia Astrometry” makes breathtaking predictions for the Gaia DR4 data release in December 2026 - around 7500 new exoplanets around nearby stars! It will be revolutionary… and indicate new nearby systems to be imaged… #astrodon #exoplanets ☄️
A plot of exoplanet detections with semimajor axis versus planet mass. Scattered points show transit and radial velocity detections, with a titanic black smear of GAIA DR4 and DR5 expected detections in the upper right corner.
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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I miss the time when this was a serious problem.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I am furiously, flamingly, incandescently, *supernova-levels* of angry right now. Trump is trying to kill NASA science. And hoo boy, do I have something to say about it. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/trump-thre... 🔭 🧪
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Trump threatens to eviscerate NASA
The Presidential budget proposal is a death sentence for the space agency
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
June is LGBT Pride Month. Love is love. Be your fabulous selves. A good piece here for any of my friends that want to learn about its history: lordslibrary.parliament.uk/pride-in-the-u…
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Wet Owl @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
These are the longest wisteria flowers that I have ever seen.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
If you know, you know
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Black Cross, New Mexico (1929) by Georgia O'Keeffe #womensart
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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Apologies if paywalled for you, but this news piece by Tollefson is partly about my brave and remarkable student Valentina Tardugno Poleo www.nature.com/articles/d41... (If you have an edu account you can probably get access just by authenticating?) What is wrong with this country??
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International PhD students make emergency plans in fear of US immigration raids
Arrests of scholars by US President Donald Trump’s administration prompts lawsuit alleging free-speech violations.
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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The disappearance of Gaia
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Final goodbye to Gaia from China
YouTube video by ESA Gaia Mission
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 19/03/2025
📣 Euclid releases first batch of survey data, including a preview of its very own deep fields! With just one scan, #ESAEuclid has already spotted 26 million galaxies 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... Let's explore the treasure trove that our #DarkUniverse detective has uncovered 🧵 1/ 🔭🧪 #astrosci
A sea of stars and galaxies sparkle against a black background. Several galaxies can be identified by their elongated shape and/or spiral arms. Some galaxies are seen edge-on while one prominent spiral galaxy at the bottom centre is seen face-on. At the far right, between the middle and top of the image, are some interacting galaxies. Galaxy clusters are also seen, in particular near bottom centre, where features smeared into arcs represent gravitational lensing. The brightest stars in the image have diffraction spikes.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Trump kisses Putin’s ring
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 10/02/2025
🔭 Auroral Hummingbird over Norway Image Credit & Copyright: Mickael Coulon apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25021...
A snowy landscape sits below a star filled sky. Dominating the frame is a large aurora in red, green, yellow, purple, white. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
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Matt Bothwell @mattbothwell.com · 05/02/2025
Great thread! There’s a small (but not zero) chance that 2024 YR4 becomes a menace. The bad news is that we might not know for sure until 2028. The good news is that we should be able to do something about it 😀🔭
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Richard Alexander @richardalexander.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We're now into February 2025, and still no outcomes from the 2024 grants rounds. STFC sent an email update to all PIs this morning which basically says no news is still no news, and that they aim to send out the results as soon as they can. 🔭
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
As one of the many international researchers personally invested & ultra proud of what the US Vera Rubin Observatory has and will achieve this👇 is not OK. My heart is sinking for my amazing 🇺🇸-based colleagues. For decades you've led the way for STEM DEI initiatives - time for Europe to step up. 🧪🔭👩‍🔬
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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.
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Richard Dyer @richardvnd.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It was a pleasure to give the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge’s outreach talk last week on black holes. You can find clips of the video on my social accounts (richardvnd - e.g. www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...) or the full talk on the IoA YouTube channel!
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Richard Dyer on LinkedIn: It was a pleasure to give the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge’s outreach…
It was a pleasure to give the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge’s outreach talk last week on black holes! ⚫️ This was my first extended public lecture on…
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Markus Pössel @mpoessel.de · 19/01/2025
What a perfect face-on spiral that is!
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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 15/01/2025
#Gaia has been the most important mission and community for my career! I have immense respect and gratitude for everyone in DPAC and look forward to the meetings, discoveries, and data ahead. Get some rest, #Gaia! 🔭
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Astronimouse @astronimouse.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Gaia has been with us at the Institute of Astronomy for as long as some of us can remember, so its rather sad to see it being retired. But it has been amazingly successful, observing well over a billion stars! www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
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Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia
The European Space Agency’s Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion observations of
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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
May you live in interesting times, they say. Well, this has certainly been interesting, exciting and long. I am going to miss you girl 💙 #GaiaMission #GaiaDPAC But there is still so much work to do to prepare for next releases! 💪
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Professor Carole Mundell @cmundell.esa.int · 13/01/2025
A revolution in astrometry - Europe's gift to the world. Steep Progress! @esa.int #ESA_Gaia
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 12/01/2025
The end of Gaia observations will be a sad day, but I think it's also something worth celebrating, as Gaia has been an incredibly successful mission. And best of all, the data is completely open and free for anyone to access - it's a monumental triumph of open science. 🔭
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Gaia end of observations - Gaia - Cosmos
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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
It's the first Wednesday public open evening of 2025 tonight! Dr James Rogers will take us on a "Journey to the centre of an exoplanet". Doors @ 6:30pm, talk starts at 7:15. Stargazing will follow (if the clouds allow). You can also watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/nPksLP7...
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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
🎉🎉🎉
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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Wandering through Venice and found this!
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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year!!
River with trees, annotated with Happy 45^2
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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Happy I managed to get Orion on the Canal Grande even with my stupid phone
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IAU Office of Astronomy for Education @astro4edu.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Happy solstice everyone! A great opportunity to get back to this image series, the 3rd place in our astrophotography contest last year in the category "Still images of sunrise and sunset location over the year" 🔭 More info in the 🧵 📷 John Paul Pile/IAU OAE (CC BY 4.0) astro4edu.org/resources/me...
12 images of sunset. Sunset moves from the left at the top, to the right in the middle, and back to the left at the bottom
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Renée Hlozek @reneehlozek.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Space is gorgeous #savechandra
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Gaia Sky @gaiasky.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Aurora borealis in #GaiaSky. Still WIP.
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