If anyone happens to have a printed-out copy of my TRAPPIST-1 paper (not sure why you would but the joke doesn't work otherwise) please update this line to 2024, submitted! #exoplanets 🔭
We have a telescope!🤩 Last week, summit staff installed Rubin's primary/tertiary mirror. 🧪🔭 With all three mirrors & the commissioning camera in place, we officially—for the first time in 15 years of construction—have a complete telescope!🥳 Watch the time-lapse: https://youtu.be/6EWUpZG1pAM
Huh Rings of Power S2 finale was actually pretty good. Shame about the 15 episodes before that really
Astropy is now on Bluesky. Go give them a follow! #astrocode 🔭
Result just arrived, should be a NASA press release available now/soon
We are constantly refreshing our emails...
One of the first things to know (and teach) about galaxies is that they consist of *stars*. I've tried to capture that in the attached image I just prepared for my lecture, of M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) with two heavily zoomed-in insets. (Background mine, zoomed-in data PHAT.) 🔭🧪 1/
Ok this is actually a nice change from posts that make me feel old, I would have guessed AoE2 was older
Age of Empires II turned 25 and so I wrote a piece about the impact it had on me, and many other historians who were inspired by the game 🏰 Thanks so much to @gregjenner.bsky.social, Agnes Arnold-Forster, and @mathewlyons.bsky.social for chatting to me www.theguardian.com/games/2024/o...
Many historians of a certain age admit that the game reinforced their passion for the past and got them into the field. Four of them explain what drew them in
Cons of sub-Earth: - Sounds unimpressive - Implies habitability Pros of Mega-Mars: - fun to say and type - implies dead rock, probably correct - NASA will send fifty spacecraft there tomorrow #exoplanets 🔭