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 🔭
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
Ok but why go with sub-Earth when Mega-Mars is available? 🔭
Really proud to have worked on lcviz – an interactive light curve visualization and analysis tool from @spacetelescope.bsky.social#starsarchive.stsci.edu/contents/new...
Today, the UK becomes the first G7 country to phase out coal power Since opening world's 1st coal plant in 1882, UK coal fleet burned through 4.6bn tonnes of coal, emitting 10.4GtCO2 – more than most countries have ever released Here's how it all ended: interactive.carbonbrief.org/coal-phaseou...
