Heute um 19 Uhr im Astronomiemuseum Sonneberg:
„Tiefe Blicke ins Leere – die Hubble Deep Fields“ mit Dr. Tanya Urrutia.

Wie werden in scheinbar leeren Himmelsregionen tausende ferne Galaxien sichtbar? Ein Abend über kosmische Tiefenblicke, Hubble, James Webb und die Entwicklung des Universums.

#Astronomiemuseum #Sternwarte #Sonneberg #100jahre #Astro #Museum

#IRAF #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is iraf. IRAF is the "Image Reduction and Analysis Facility". The main IRAF distribution includes a good selection of programs for general image processing and graphics.

Other external or layered packages are available for applications such as data acquisition or handling data from other observatories and wavelength regimes such as the Hubble Space Telescope (optical), EUVE (extreme ultra-violet), or
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👩🔬Unsere Physikerin der Woche ist Dr. Ramona Augustin! Ramona ist Postdoktorandin am Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP). Sie beschäftigt sich mit der Erforschung des Gasreservoirs, das Galaxien umgibt und als zirkumgalaktisches Medium (CGM) bekannt ist.
Mehr zu Ramona & ihrer Forschung: https://www.dpg-physik.de/vereinigungen/fachuebergreifend/ak/akc/publikationen/physikerin-der-woche

#DPG #DPGPhysik #Physik #Physikerin

Semi-personal commentary:

The NSF's terms were quite perverse – even ignoring the clear ethical fuckery they demanded.

"Promoting a diverse and international Python community" is written into our IRS-registered mission. Accepting the NSF's terms would have meant using funds in a fashion contrary to the mission that gives us a non-profit status in the US, and explaining that to the IRS in four years time would have been a heck of a time.

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html

A new telescope facility is born 🌟, 4MOST captured its first starlight 💫

Under the leadership of the @AIP and in collaboration with over 700 researchers worldwide, the scientific run of the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope is now starting its scientific journey. An impressive example of international cooperation.

4MOST can analyse the light from 2,400 objects simultaneously in 18,000 colours – a view into the chemical heart of the universe.

https://www.aip.de/news/4most-first-light/

@esoastronomy

1/2 Thousands of eyes on the sky: 4MOST sees first light 🎉

Installed on our VISTA telescope in #Chile, 4MOST has completed the first test observations over the weekend.

It is the largest facility of its kind to survey the southern skies. It can capture the light of thousands of cosmic objects simultaneously, using more than 2400 thin optical fibres, each about the width of a human hair.

📷 AIP/A. Saviauk

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science