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CosmicRami, 6 days ago to Astro

The people I work with are doing cool shit!

I finally got a chance to interview fellow PhD'er Sarah Caddy from our faculty about this excellent new research and looking at stars and satellites (like the ISS) DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS!

THey're using a telescope called 'The Huntsman' and look how many eyes it has 🕷️🔭

https://www.spaceaustralia.com/news/seeing-stars-day

#SpaceAustralia #Astrodon #Astronomy #Telescopes

📸 Caddy et al. 2024

spacetelescope, 6 days ago to Astronomy

Happy June! Together, the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes present a colorful view of the Orion Nebula’s dynamic star-forming environment in ultraviolet, infrared, and visible light. Credit: NASA, ESA, STscI. #astronomy

iangriffin, 8 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to NewZealand

Over 400 pictures were combined to make this star trail montage taken today between 01:52 and 05:05am. That is how dull I am. I like to watch the Earth rotate. Also am I the only person annoyed that the path is not aligned due South? #Startrails #NewZealand

astro_jcm, 10 days ago to chile

Soon the telescope platform at ESO's Paranal Observatory in #Chile will look very different at night: all four of the 8.2 m telescopes of the VLT will be equipped with lasers! This is one of the ongoing upgrades of the GRAVITY+ instrument, which will allow us to study black holes, stars and planets like never before.

Find out more in this great article by current and former ESO communication interns Elena Reiriz Martinez and Tom Howarth: https://www.eso.org/public/blog/gravity-leap-vlti/

#astrodon #astronomy #technology

vicgrinberg, 11 days ago to Astro

Did you know that it's actually NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope? Even though it is often referred to as "NASA" only.

European Space Agency #ESA has contributed the NIRSpec instrument, half of the MIRI instrument, and the launch (including the payload adapter & launch site services) and has 15 scientists working at the science and operations center. #CSA, the Canadian Space Agency, has contributed the NIRISS instrument.

Graphic from launch kit: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/James_Webb_Space_Telescope_launch_kit

#JWST #astrodon

spacetelescope, 10 days ago to random

Scientists using #NASAWebb announced today that they have found the most distant known galaxy. It existed just 290 million years after the big bang, and its light traveled for 13.5 billion years to reach us: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/early-highlights/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-finds-most-distant-known-galaxy

dstndstn, 10 days ago to random

Made it to the telescope!

spacetelescope, 12 days ago to random

Galaxy M64—in this Hubble image—revealed a surprise: Gas in its outer regions is rotating in the opposite direction of the galaxy’s pinwheel arms. It’s likely the last evidence of a long-ago collision with a smaller galaxy that has been almost completely absorbed. Credit: NASA

ClaireLamman, 13 days ago to Astronomy

My Harvard Horizons video is now on YouTube! I worked hard on this with some talented animators, really excited to share it with ya'll :)
This is a short, public talk of my research: exploring connections between galaxies and cosmology with @desisurvey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIB0F_oNxdM

#astronomy #scicomm #astrophysics #cosmology #science #space

astro_jcm, 17 days ago to Astro

One night at ESO's Extremely Large Telescope

https://youtu.be/ytVC8lBxNaU

🎥 B. Häußler/ESO

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography

ec_euclid, 18 days ago to Astronomy

Finally, after months of work, the #ESAEuclid Early Release Observation images, data, first science results, and #Euclid mission reference papers have been released. You can read more in our blog post, which has links to the papers, the press releases, and everything else:

https://www.euclid-ec.org/first-early-release-observation-science-and-reference-paper-release

#astronomy #astrodon #science #space #cosmology

elsa_euclid, 18 days ago to Astro

The European Space Agency's guide to the new images from Euclid #astrodon https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Your_guide_to_the_reveal_of_five_new_Euclid_images

elsa_euclid, 18 days ago to Astro

And here it is! Euclid press release on the early release observations #astrodon https://www.euclid-ec.org/public/press-releases/first-science-results-and-exclusive-ero-data/

setiinstitute, 18 days ago to space

VIRTUAL EVENT: https://www.seti.org/event/europa-clipper-exploring-jupiters-ocean-world

TONIGHT, May 22, 2024, at 7 pm (PDT), Dr. Robert Pappalardo (NASA Jet
Propulsion Lab) will give a free, illustrated, non-technical lecture entitled:
“Europa Clipper: Exploring Jupiter’s Ocean World"

Livestreamed at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/SVAstronomyLectures

[if you go to this web address the evening of the talk, you will see and be able to participate in the live event]

#space #science #scicomm #europa #europaclipper #jupiter

megschwamb, 19 days ago to Astro

The LSST Camera is at the summit. Construction of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is on the path to completion - The camera was the last major piece of equipment/component - still lots to do, but we're getting closer to the start of commissioning and operations with Rubin Observatory and LSSTCam! Well done to all the @VRubinObs construction project and observatory staff and collaborators who made this milestone happen! https://rubinobservatory.org/news/camera-arrives-chile #astrodon

elsa_euclid, 19 days ago to science

The @ec_euclid consortium have a big spash coming tomorrow... Watch this space for the first results from Thursday, 23 May, 12:00 CEST, and shortly afterwards on arXiv... #EuclidLeaks #science #astronomy #astrodon #space

spacetelescope, 19 days ago to random

What will happen when our sun dies? When it runs out of fuel in 5 billion years, it will expand into a red giant, engulfing the closest planets. It will then shrink to become a white dwarf, like the one highlighted in this Hubble image. How stars die: https://bit.ly/3VjcsOD

spacetelescope, 20 days ago to random

Why is the warm gas-giant exoplanet WASP-107 b so, so puffy? With a moderate temperature and an ultra-low density on par with a microwaved marshmallow, it seems to defy standard theories of planet formation and evolution. (1/7)

spacetelescope, 20 days ago to random

How did the warm gas-giant WASP-107 b get to be as big as Jupiter and as puffy as a microwaved marshmallow? Astronomers used #NASAWebb measurements of the planet’s atmosphere to crack the case: https://webbtelescope.pub/44M12FM

sundogplanets, 24 days ago to random

Here comes a thread on light pollution from satellites, with a concrete action that you all can take to help push for regulation of satellites in orbit!

Astronomers have been worried about light pollution from satellites (if you've been following me for more than 24 hours, you've perhaps heard a bit about this). Astronomers spent SO much time and effort begging and pleading with Starlink to make their satellites fainter, with mixed results.

spacetelescope, 23 days ago to random

Every six weeks, a maneuver is planned for the James Webb Space Telescope to ensure it stays in its orbit a million miles away. It's carried out by a group of skilled engineers at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Watch as the team prepares the observatory! #NASAWebb

https://youtu.be/F0CHvhlkmZg

spacetelescope, 23 days ago to random

The last facility at AURA we’ll be looking at is the Community Science and Data Center, home to the Astro Data Lab, the science platform with software for astronomy research. It enables the exploration and analysis of large datasets: https://datalab.noirlab.edu #AURAPartners

A horizontal image with a black background, showing a map projection of the sky. An oval shows shades of green, blue, yellow and red with a larger concentration of red points in the bottom half. A large swatch of gray is on the upper right of the oval. A red line appears across the oval, starting from the middle left, then dips down in a curve before going up in a curve and ending on the middle right of the oval.

vicgrinberg, 25 days ago to random

Just stumbled over this lovely article about my friend Erin and her work to decipher the timing of #BlackHoles!

▶️ https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-see-black-holes-in-detail-she-uses-echoes-like-a-bat-20240212/

(May possibly give some background context on our recent paper on Cyg X-1 that I posted about yesterday and that Erin was also part of the team for 😊)

#astrodon

spacetelescope, 25 days ago to random

Earlier today, engineers in the #NASAWebb Mission Operations Center at STScI performed a regular maneuver to make sure the observatory stays in its orbit at the Second Lagrange Point. It is performed every six weeks.

A woman on the left side of the image looks at four computer screens in front of her at a desk. Other screens are seen hanging from the ceiling at the top of the photo. The NASA logo is at the top left.
A man on the right side of the image looks at four computer screens in front of him at a desk. Other screens are seen hanging from the ceiling at the top of the photo.
A man on the right side of the image looks at four computer screens in front of him at a desk.