I wonder if sculptors in year MDCCLXXVIII were ever jealous that sculptors in MMXXV would have it so easy...
#Astronomer in transit, currently postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bern.
Hugh Osborn
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I find exoplanets. 🇪🇺/🇬🇧.
#Astronomer in transit, currently postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bern.
#Astronomer in transit, currently postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bern.
Emeritus Prof Christopher MayThere is something very wrong in this country when six young people meeting to discuss politics in a Quaker Meeting House are arrested by the police after a mass (twenty officers) invasion of the building (armed with tasers).
The freedom to protest, or even the freedom to meet in a room to discuss current affairs, are central to a democracy... if this freedom is now compromised (further), as it seems to be, we are in a very bad place!
h/t @Thebratdragon
jasegTIL that you can just watch cosmic rays hit the Superkamiokande experiment's giant (30m diameter) water tank 1000m below the Japanese alps in real time online:
Dr Megan Argo📢 calling all astrophotographers!
I’m working on a new talk I’ve been meaning to write for a while, looking at satellite megaconstellations and their impact on astronomy. There are now quite a few academic papers looking at the impact on professional astronomy (at various wavelengths), but I’d like to include some images taken without professional facilities that show the wider impact.
If you have taken any great pictures that show the impact satellites have (I’m particularly looking for time lapse shots showing multiple trails) and would be willing to let me use them for educational and public engagement purposes, with credit of course, please get in touch.
Thanks for reading!
#Ariel, the M-class #ESA mission (launch 2028), hopes to study a range of exoplanet atmospheres in transmission. What we've learned from #JWST, though, is that most small planets have "flat" spectra. #Neptunes because their atmospheres are dominated by "heavy" volatiles. Earths & #superEarths because they've lost theirs altogether. So if JWST, with a 6.5m mirror, can't see a spectrum, what hope is there for Ariel with only a 1m mirror? My guess is it will become a hot jupiter survey mission.
Seb Potter🚀 Astrodon Needs Your Support! 🪐
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We live in the internet age, so how on earth did "ability to google search" end up in the same chronic generational decline as "ability to use a sewing machine" did for our parents???
Reddit's r/astronomy really is an insight into the modern human brain. Every single day there are the following:
- 10 photos saying "what is this star" (just google "star map" ffs)
- 5 photos of the Pleiades saying "what's this" (see above)
- 3 photos asking is this internal camera reflection a UFO (You didn't see a blue sphere in the sky, so why would it be real!?)
- 8 videos of Starlink (How have you not heard of them at this point)
- 4 photos of planes??
- 3 interesting posts about astronomy
- 10 photos saying "what is this star" (just google "star map" ffs)
- 5 photos of the Pleiades saying "what's this" (see above)
- 3 photos asking is this internal camera reflection a UFO (You didn't see a blue sphere in the sky, so why would it be real!?)
- 8 videos of Starlink (How have you not heard of them at this point)
- 4 photos of planes??
- 3 interesting posts about astronomy
America is now an oligarchy. Unregulated capitalism has eaten away at the world's first democracy until all that's left is now a rotting husk. Time for the rest of us to detach ourselves, and learn from their mistakes... before it's too late.
Dr. Nick Attree on MastadonHosting @ExoHugh for an exoplanets seminar today here at IAA