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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📢 Paper day! 📢 We explore [OIII] outflows in DESI quasars to understand what is driving the previously found radio-dust connection, whereby more dust in quasars = more likely to be radio detected. We find this radio-dust connection is dominated by sources with high velocity outflows.

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

and we could see Venus during the total eclipse 😍 — look for the tiny bright dot up and left

Zoomed out view of total solar eclipse over the ocean. The sky is greyish blue and aside from the total eclipse (black center and bright corona), Venus appears as a tiny bright dot in the top left of the frame. There is land in the foreground and a crowd of onlookers with cell phones that light up like fireflies. Eclipse was one hour before sunset so there is yellow glow near horizon.

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Amazing experience to see the total eclipse from the coast of Spain 🌑🥹 I was worried about the weather but we got lucky 🤩

Selfie of a couple with eclipse glasses and the sun still shining bright in their faces

Photo of total solar eclipse with the sun in a clear sky over the ocean with a bit of foreground land. The sun is black in center with bright corona.

Solar eclipse just after totality with the “diamond ring” effect. The landscape is the same as in the previous photo with clear sky, ocean, and a bit of foreground land but there’s bright sun reflecting on the water this time.

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Grad Certificate in AI/ML + Astrophysics-AI Badge - Spring 2027 apps open! CosmicAI x UT Austin CDSO 12 credits, 100% online Priority deadline Aug 1, final Sept 1. Scholarships avail for early-career researchers. form.jotform.com/261535798839... Apply cdso.utexas.edu/caiml @thenrao.bsky.social

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My colleague Robert Nikutta, PI of @astrodatalab.bsky.social and I are thankful for the opportunity to write a @jupyter.org blog post on how we’re using Jupyter for astronomy science platforms! Get in touch if you have questions 🧪🔭⭐️

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A lot of discoveries begin with "huh, that's weird." Astronomers noticed a weird dark patch at the center of this galaxy. Now it seems the void is caused by a record-breaking pair of ultramassive black holes that cleared out all the surrounding stars. 🧪🔭 www.sciencenews.org/article/larg...

Multiwavelength observations of the central galaxy in A402. Left: three-color image of the cluster core based on data from HST and JWST (north is up, east is left). Upper right: zoom-in of the inner 2″ × 2″ of the central galaxy in A402. This zoomed image reveals a 0
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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Not sure how well this posts but here’s an IG reel of my latest #printmaking project! Pincushion cactus print. It took a long time to cut up my carved linoleum block to make the puzzle pieces + inking the flowers is challenging but each print is unique! 🌺 #sciart www.instagram.com/reel/DYHiJ4t...

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Had a fulfilling, fun visit at the Univ of Wyoming to give their astronomy colloquium and meet with students & faculty. Got to see the lucky T-rex — students throw pine cones in its mouth for "good luck" on their exams😂. Thanks to Yufeng for the invitation and showing me a glimpse of the landscape!

Physical Sciences building on the University of Wyoming campus, built in late 60s with warm colored sandstone.

Me with my long brown hair and gray sport coat in front of tall T-rex statue with pinecones in its mouth.

Woman with long brown hair and gray jacket and pants standing on hiking trail in grassy hilltop landscape under moody grey clouds but pre-sunset warm glow low on horizon.

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Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Not-so-breaking news: Phobos is a rock and not a space station. Neat work by Winter Parts using REBOUND to illustrate the old (disproven) hypothesis that Phobos's anomalous orbit was due to atmospheric drag because it is hollow! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

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Phobos is not Hollow

Phobos is not Hollow, Parts, Winter, Wright, Jason T.

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US National Gemini Office @usngo.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This week’s image is of NGC 6302! Gemini South’s GMOS was used to image this planetary nebula, also known as the Butterfly Nebula. Check out the 🧵 for another paper using GMOS data! #Astronomy 📸 credit in thread

A high-contrast image of the Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302) against a dark, star-filled sky. The nebula features two sprawling, asymmetrical “wings” of gas and dust extending from a central bright core. The wings transition from a glowing, white, and pale blue near the center to deep, fiery streaks of red and orange at the outer edges.

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The #Hubble space telescope turned 36 today! Happy birthday! 🥳 Three and a half decades of cosmic beauty, including a certain Pillars of Creation that may or may not have been photoshopped 👀 🔭🐡🧪🎨

Hubble's iconic Pillars of Creation image showing three towering columns of dust and gas in the Eagle Nebula, with three pairs of googly eyes stuck on top of each pillar.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/04/2026

The whole-Earth-at-night photo from the #Artemis II mission was brighter than many expected. That was mostly due to camera settings; here’s another pic taken just before with diff settings. Digital photography is always subjective—even before processing! (HT @swapnakrishna.com @jasonc0.bsky.social)

An image of the entire Earth, with Northern Africa and the North Pole visible at the lower left. It looks like daytime but it is actually illuminated by moonlight. There’s a bright arc along the lower right where the sun is coming through from behind. There’s a bright dot on the lower right (Venus) and a glow (zodiacal light). A few stars can be seen in the dark beyond the Earth.

An image of the entire Earth, with Northern Africa and the North Pole visible at the lower left. It is dark with muted colors. There’s a very bright arc along the lower right where the sun is coming through from behind. There’s a small dot on the lower right (Venus). The background is dark with a few faint stars visible.

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Dr. John Wu, PhD, Associate Astronomer and the Applied AI Scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, presenting his talk "Short Stories of AI in, and for, Astronomy" at our hybrid seminar series! To sign up for future seminars, join our email list cosmicai.org/get-involved

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

It’s official, our panel "Revolutionizing Astronomy with Next Generation Big Data" has been accepted to @sxsw.com 2026! Thank you to everyone who supported our work! Panelists: Stella Offner, Paul Torrey, @stephajuneau.bsky.social, & @niall2.bsky.social Learn more schedule.sxsw.com/events/PP116...

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

In honor of Frida Kahlo, her mesmerizing work, her inspiring strength and her impactful journey 💚 #halloween #Frida #art #painter

Woman disguised as a Frida Kahlo self-portrait with make-up, crown of flowers, hand-shaped earrings and with a wooden picture frame hanging around the head and neck. Background is a brick wall.

Same as previous except with a different background. Woman disguised as a Frida Kahlo self-portrait with make-up, crown of flowers, hand-shaped earrings and with a wooden picture frame hanging around the head and neck. Background is the actual painting with foliage and dark clouds within the frame and just plain green and white outside the frame, giving the impression that the Frida portrait is coming to life.

Dressed as Frida Kahlo with the background from her painting: "Self portrait dedicated to Dr. Eloesser"

Original painting by Frida Kahlo: "Self portrait dedicated to Dr. Eloesser" used as a reference for the recreation

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Astro Data Lab @astrodatalab.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The first annual Astro Data Lab user survey closes tomorrow, September 30. If you haven’t already, please fill it out to help shape the future of the Data Lab! 👉 User Survey: datalab.noirlab.edu/usersurvey #astronomy 🔭

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Thank you for participating in the first annual user experience survey of the Astro Data Lab science platform. Your answers are collected anonymously, i.e., we are not linking your responses to any pe...

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Exciting news! Introducing AstroVisBench: A Code Benchmark for Scientific Computing and Visualization in Astronomy! A new benchmark developed by researchers at the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins is testing how well LLMs implement scientific workflows in astronomy and visualize results.

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Matthew Kenworthy @mattkenworthy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

My periodic reminder for #astrosci #astrodon #exoplanets Early Career Researchers to please, please, please have a simple web site with your current email address on it - rationale here: kenworthy.space/advice/

A pen sketch of a web page for an astronomer, showing name, email, optional phone number, and professional contact details, with a one sentence summary of their research and an ADS link.

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

If you have a few mins and have used (or you're thinking about using) the Astro Data Lab, our team would love to hear from you!

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Vote to bring our panel “Revolutionizing Astronomy + AI with Next Generation Big Data” to SXSW! Register for a SXSW account & vote by clicking the heart ❤️ - open now til Aug 24! participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx... @stephajuneau.bsky.social @niall2.bsky.social

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Yay! Now I'm allowed to reveal that DESI found stronger constraints toward evolving dark energy. It's not quite at the five sigma level yet but may have "major implications for our understanding of the nature and fate of our universe" 🚀🔭

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

🔭 OK so I'm not allowed to reveal the details yet but we have some exciting press releases coming up in a few hours (watch this space: @desisurvey.bsky.social) including a data release that I've been working on for MONTHS and I'm just here on the verge of tears 😭 #astronomy #data #treasure

Montage with photos of the Mayall 4-meter telescope and a selfie in front of it.

Portrait of astronomer Stephanie Juneau in front of the Mayall telescope dome in the background. By photographer Jesse Rieser

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Catherine 🌌 @catieslaughts.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

🔭 Crowdsourcing here a little: Astro folks! Do you have a favorite online resource/publication for astronomy info to share with the general public? I have a science museum volunteer who's interested in updating the sources they share with folks who want to learn more, and astrobites is my default

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Brett Morris @brettmorr.is · 28/02/2025

We can't make @astropy.org better for you without knowing a bit about what you need and who you are. Tell us! The Astropy Project will make informed decisions with your input. 🔭🧪

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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Image by Michael Carroll shows some asteroids to scale. We did NOT see the little one coming & it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring >1400 people. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is bigger than the little one, perhaps as large as the football field! JWST 🔭 data next month will help pin down the size.

Image by Michael Carroll illustrating the sizes of some asteroids in 2013. The asteroids are shown in comparison to a US football field. We had seen the big one coming, and it just buzzed Earth. But the littler one we did NOT see coming, and it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk, creating a shockwave the blew out windows and injuring more than 1400 people. The asteroid we are monitoring now - 2024 YR4 - is bigger than the little guy, but maybe as large as the whole football field! Our JWST measurements next month will help pin down the size. Source: https://carrollspaceart.com/gallery/comparisons/

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Astro Data Lab @astrodatalab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

✨January 2025 updates✨ - Added 6 datasets: Palomar Gattini-IR (PGIR) DR1, S-PLUS DR4, DES Y6 Gold, PHAT v3, DeMCELS DR1, SDSS DR12 stellar mass VACs - Added 4 Jupyter notebooks to our collection available to all users and on GitHub Read more in our Newsletter! datalab.noirlab.edu/newsletters/...

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Very proud of Isabella's work which she started during a TIMESTEP internship at NOIRLab last summer. She wrote a very nice Jupyter notebook on galaxy quenching featuring the SDSS "cosmic slime" estimates of matter density. Check out her #aas245 iPoster 465.04 (notebook linked in short thread below)

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National Radio Astronomy Observatory - NSF NRAO @thenrao.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🔎 #AAS245 Scavenger Hunt 🔍 ngVLA antennas are hidden around the conference center! Find one? Take it home, and don’t forget to tag us @thenrao.bsky.social! (@thenrao on all socials) #RadioAstronomy 📡

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🧵 1/ For those who missed it, this is the stunning image from Webb's NIRCam showing NGC 604, a star-forming region located around 2.73 Mly away in the Triangulum galaxy (M33). Source and more➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/web... Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI 🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #NASAWebb #JWST

This is an image from JWST’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera). It features the star-forming region NGC 604 and shows how stellar winds from bright, hot, young stars carve out cavities in surrounding gas and dust. The most noticeable features are tendrils and clumps of emission that appear bright red, extending out from areas that look like clearings, or large bubbles in the nebula.

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Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

When bacteria was found on an asteroid Ryugu grain in London, the media questioned whether terrestrial contamination was ever avoidable. No contamination has been found at JAXA. But let's take a look at what that takes... brace yourself (my latest on Cosmos 🧪🔭🛰️) 👉 cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/keeping-out-...

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Update: Mars came back from the other side 🔭🌝 #mars #occultation

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Last minute decided to check the Mars occultation time and rushed outside with new camera lens. Can you spot Mars just before it was occulted by our beautiful Moon? 🌝 🔭

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Folks attending #aas245 this week, come by the NOIRLab booth to chat with some of my colleagues and get a live demo! 🔭 @noirlabastro.bsky.social

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Katey Alatalo, Ph.D. @kateyalatalo.com · 10/01/2025

The gofundme for affected astronomers has been expanded to cover ALL astronomers who have been impacted by this fire. We're at $33k and still going, so if you were on the fence, please think about donating! www.gofundme.com/f/support-na...

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Donate to Help JPL & Roman & HabWorlds teammates in Pasadena, organized by Jason Tumlinson

We are raising money to assist friends of ours who are displaced or… Jason Tumlinson needs your support for Help JPL & Roman & HabWorlds teammates in Pasadena

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

We've just released the third band of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey! This is the new #RadioAstronomy reference survey of the sky, south of declination 40 degrees. Here are some typical images... @sunmish.bsky.social @elenchically.bsky.social @cosmicpudding.bsky.social @redqso.bsky.social

6 images from the "Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey". The top row shows the RACS high band, mid band and low band images of radio source PKS J0816−7039.

The bottom row shows the RACS high band, mid band and low band images of radio source PKS J2113+0230.

The colour scheme ranges from pale to dark purple.

Image credit: Stefan Duchesne

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The Astrosky Ecosystem @astrosky.eco · 20/11/2024

The Astronomy feeds are looking for more moderators! 🔭 Please consider signing up if you'd like to help sustain the health of our community here, especially while Bluesky grows. Apply below: We also could benefit from anyone willing to help with development - DM @emily.space if you'd like to!

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Apply now to help run the Astronomy feeds! The plan is that moderators will handle things like feed sign ups and the (rare) cases when account / post moderation is necessary on the feeds. Handling s...

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Misty Bentz @astronomisty.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

IC 5068, the Forsaken Nebula Just seems appropriate for the now-ishness of right now Seestar, 3.2h 🔭

A red square-shaped cloud of glowing gas is centered and nearly fills the image. Dark tendrils of dust eat into its sides from the blackness of the background. Stars of different colors and brightnesses are scattered across the frame.

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Scott Kardel aka Palomar Skies @palomarskies.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Here's today's Sun - 7 November 2024. 🔭

A telescopic image of the Sun, which looks like an orange circle with numerous dark sunspots.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/05/2024

🎉 Today is my birthday! 🎂 If you'd like to help me celebrate, here are some causes that could use your support! 👉 www.astrokatie.com/birthday 👈 Feel free to let me know if you're able to donate!

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Birthday 2024 — KATIE MACK, ASTROPHYSICIST

Page listing charity donation sites for my birthday, May 1st

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Claire Lamman @clairelamman.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

Yay, I can share this now!! After seeing my paper doodles, an editor reached out to me about creating something for Physics Today. Presenting: a cartoon summary of one of the most impactful papers in modern cosmology! 🧪 shorturl.at/wJPRU

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Citizen scientists 🧪🔭 Please help us find new black holes with this amazing new app! Download to help identify new transients and to train our system. You will be a coauthor, and top classifiers will even be able to trigger follow up observations with real telescopes! www.dbhc.nl/news/black-h...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/10/2023

I have a webpage full of advice for aspiring astrophysicists: www.astrokatie.com/solicited-ad... Feel free to share it with anyone who might find it of use! 🌌🔭

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Solicited Advice — KATIE MACK, ASTROPHYSICIST

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Check out this new mid-infrared image of the Ring Nebula, taking with the MIRI instrument on the JWST! Stunning details visible in the surrounding shells. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, M. Barlow, N. Cox, R. Wesson

picture of the Ring nebula taken with the JWST observatory. the nebula is slightly oval in shape, red in the centre with some filamentary structure. The core is surrounded by an orange shell with intricate fine structure, evolving into thin deep blue wispy streamers and shells around it.

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Vivian U @justtheletteru.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

🔭🧪 Been missing #GOALSJWST results? Our GOALS team has been working hard on the rest of our #JWST ERS & Cyc1 data; the 1st of our new batch of papers is on arxiv today! Thomas Lai led the work on analyzing NIRSpec data of nearby LIRG NGC7469, focusing on 3.3um PAH... arxiv.org/abs/2307.15169

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Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

EUCLID test images just dropped. Data looks amazing already. Fun science ahead! Look at that 6-spike PSF!

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

Hi everyone 👋 Just joined today and trying to find the astronomy / space community on here but I'm also interested in visual arts, rock climbing, traveling, coffee, desert landscapes. How are y'all doing?

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