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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 25/07/2026

O stars are the cleaners of our galaxy 🙂‍↕️

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 28/06/2026

"Dust symbolizes ego, attachment, and mental clutter." 👏👏👏 Guest submission by @lillykormann.bsky.social

A picture of a label for an artwork entitled "when flowers bloom, there is no dust" (plus some Chinese characters).

It's described as "Dust symbolizes ego, attachment, and mental clutter. When awareness blossoms, the mind becomes clear." There is a large "SOLD" label.

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 01/06/2026

The magnitude system is one of the most hated parts of astronomy. Reply to this post with your ideas on how to fix it!

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Bob Benjamin @bobbenjamin.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

It all makes sense now

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 23/02/2026

🔭 Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster Image Credit & Copyright: Kamil Fiedosiuk apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26022...

A cluster of blue stars is seen against a starfield
of brown and clumpy dust. The stars illuminate some of
the nearby dust which causes the dust to glow blue.
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 10/02/2026

can't believe that our Sun chose to leave its birth cluster. can't believe I have to spend my whole life in orbit around a hater.

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 11/01/2026

don't know what we'd do without clustering algorithms

A meme of a skeleton lifting captioned "my clustering algorithm is a machine that turns (picture of data) into (picture of data with clusters)"

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 23/12/2025

happy holidays! may your stars be clustered ✨ and your isochrone fits perfect 👌

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 19/12/2025

tfw your bae half-crops you out of the group pic on insta

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 16/12/2025

ok hear me out: what if we just removed all dust (✨ guest submission ✨ by @alexis-space.bsky.social)

A meme of two people's arms shaking each other in agreement. One person is labelled "catalogs of open clusters". The other is labelled "maps of OB stars". They are agreeing on "doomed to be incomplete because of dust".

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 15/12/2025

wtf i was born 98.2±15 million years ago but Bluesky won't let me enter my birthday

screenshot of 'my birthdate' and entering 1st January 1 AD, which actually worked (LOL)

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 03/11/2025

so sad. I found out today that the local star formation efficiency is just 8%. that is such an awfully slow rate of converting the ISM (eww, icky) into star clusters. heartbreaking.

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James Davenport @jradavenport.com · 30/10/2025

Teaching is very serious business. In other news, I made this critical diagram during the class I was teaching today. Might have to put this into my next NSF proposal

meme that says "Astronomers. is this a standard candle?"

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 10/10/2025

Everyone always asks "where" are the open clusters, but never "how" are the open clusters 😤

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 10/10/2025

this is what my favourite dust map would look like if dust didn't exist 😠

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 10/10/2025

wait, what do you mean I need the ISM to make clusters

A meme about struggling to choose between liking or hating the ISM

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 29/09/2025

who else remembers this iconic scene from The Mandalorian? 🙏

"I want to see the baby" scene screenshot from mando

A badly photoshopped pic of the Orion nebula on top of baby yoda

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 16/09/2025

petition to remove dust from the milky way 1 like = 1 dust grain removed

Text on top of a picture of a dust cloud in space. It reads:

"Interstellar Medium? More like
Interstellar TEDIUM!
I don't care about your A V or your R V
JUST SHOW ME THE STARS"

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 23/08/2025

we have gotta get Gaia NIR someday so that we can find them all 😠

A meme of a beast (labelled Gaia DR4) coming after sheep in a medieval-horror scene. The sheep are labelled "all the open clusters that our galaxy keeps for itself". They are protected by a sheepdog labelled "dust".

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 22/07/2025

do not ask me the forbidden question

A meme depicting two people texting. The first writes "What happens if you don't assume solar metallicity?" While the second is captioned "*blocks phone number*"

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 20/07/2025

the horrors. the horrors that I have made emcee commit on my behalf

A meme of a disturbed-looking doll, captioned "Me looking at the results of my isochrone fitting code"

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 18/07/2025

Workflow for 90% of astronomy papers: fit model -> make corner plot -> publish paper -> repeat

A meme showing a skeleton lifting weights. The caption reads: emcee is a machine that turns CPU time into corner plots.

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 12/07/2025

It's not about how close we are, Hyades. It's about your total integrated flux. It just doesn't compare. 🫤

A meme. The upper panel shows two people kissing, labelled as "Mayan religion 2 millennia ago" and " the Pleiades." The lower panel shows someone in the distance looking left out, labelled as "the Hyades".

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 10/07/2025

here at starcluster.meme, we have your meme requests covered! 🫠

The same hierarchy meme, but now a "2025 special edition" with the following new lower needs: actual long-term career prospects, a job with a living wage, and not having to live through *points around at everything*

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Catherine 🌌 @catieslaughts.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Post a meme made by you

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 10/07/2025

originally I made a serious version of this meme, which I'm non-ironically gonna use in talks now

A meme based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, but for star clusters. The basic levels are: photometric and astrometric data, cluster catalogues, cluster parameters, spectra/abundances, and hydro/n-body simulations

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

New age determination method if my cluster can open a child safety cap it is a young cluster otherwise it is an old cluster in this paper I will use

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 31/03/2025

happy April fool's, this meme account is now about cloud security! open clusters (of servers) are bad. make sure to protect them with a firewall!

A meme, showing two people doing a sort of warrior-like handshake/embrace thing I can't remember the name of. One person is labelled "astronomers", the other is labelled "cloud security teams." Where their hands embrace (the 'common goal') is labelled "Trying to find all the open clusters".

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 27/02/2025

Life pro tip: when you're born, try to be at least 500 solar masses, else you risk getting blown away by stellar winds just a few million years later 😔

A meme showing a person fading away, captioned "Low-mass clusters after feedback."

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 27/02/2025

can we get a round of applause for M35 and NGC 2158? They made it into APOD 😭

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 19/02/2024

poisson? is that some kind of fish?

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