A note on this account -- This instance, #Astrodon, is shutting down. Unfortunate, but understandable.

I had originally made this account under the hope astronomers would find a new home on the Fediverse, and I would have a more professional account to bore folks with details and a personal account to talk about biking. Alas, the influx never really matured, and most astronomers who got toe holds here eventually withered away.

This is to say -- there's no good reason for me to maintain a separate, astro-only account anymore, and so I will not be migrating off Astrodon when it shuts down in two weeks. I continue to toot at @thomasconnor, which I will now presumably sprinkle with more astro-specific toots.

Thanks to Seb for trying this experiment as a server admin.

On the one hand, as an X-ray astronomer who does not work on bright objects, I'm happy to go along with dunking on the Crab as a nonsense unit.

Conversely, as an X-ray astronomer (and one employed by a flagship X-ray observatory) who has to talk to low-energy folks, I feel like I need to stand up for what is, in effect, just sparkling Solar Luminosities.

#Astrodon

Welp. Fuck.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/11/nasa-science-budget-cuts-trump/

#NASA #Astrodon #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Science

#JWST rejections going out. I'm beginning to think we might need another one of these to help lower the oversubscription!

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Exciting times at #AAS245, as Lea Marcotulli prepares to present at a press conference on some super-exciting #NuSTAR + @ChandraScience results on the early universe

(I'm co-corresponding author on the paper, so I may be a little biased...)