HAPPY BIRTHDAY GW170817!

I didn't have time to make new art, and other accounts are already doing a great job of posting about the science-y parts, so instead I'll post my BNS-inspired art 😊

#GW170817 #astrodon #GravitationalWaves

Messier 51 in 255 Hours

Image Credit & Copyright: The Deep Sky Collective - Carl Björk, Thomas Bähnck, Sebastian Donoso, Jake Gentillon, Antoine and Dalia Grelin, Stephen Guberski, Richard Hall, Tino Heuberger, Jason Jacks, Paul Kent, Brian Meyers, William Ostling, Nicolas Puig, Tim Schaeffer, Felix Schöfbänker, Mikhail Vasilev

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230811.html #APOD

https://openstax.org/details/books/organic-chemistry

I find it incredible that the Organic Chemistry textbook I learnt from many moons ago in University is now freely available via OpenStax! This was the first textbook I read from cover-to-cover, devouring the problem sets at the end—and was the beginning of my love affair with the central science.

What a great boon to the chemistry education community, and a wonderful way to honor John McMurry’s son. #Chemistry #Chemiverse

Some of the best academic advice I ever got was "A paper is never really done, at some point you just have to set it free."

And yet...I find myself with a nearly-done paper that I just keep making more and more plots for! Someday I'll set it free, but not today, apparently.

In a couple of hours, we’ll be releasing the first engineering images from our #ESAEuclid mission 🚀🔭

These come ahead of the main release of full colour images later in the year showcasing various regions of the sky, but already demonstrate that the telescope & instruments are working well 👍

While you’re waiting for those, here’s a scribble done by Lucia Fabiani during the launch event stage programme at the European Space Operations Centre on 1 July 🖖

#Astrodon
#DarkUniverse