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#extragalactic #paperday arxiv.org/abs/2412.07862 ✨🔭🧪 with STScI postdoc Jimena Rodriguez! where we search for dusty star clusters in 19 nearby galaxies using the PHANGS-JWST Treasury Survey, and find a very short timescale (<3 Myr) for the dust embedded phase. Fig 17 & 18 are my favs!

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A big power company wants to build a huge industrial complex near Paranal, the top astronomical site in the world (VLT, ELT etc.). Here is a petition for physics/astro professionals 🧪🔭, please consider signing. Even if you're not, pls help raise awareness by sharing the links in the petition. Thx! 🙏

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Beautiful #JWST observations of our Milky Way supermassive black hole, Sgr A* 🔭

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The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party, complete with a disco ball-style light show. Using #NASAWebb, astrophysicists have gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the “void” that lurks in the middle of our galaxy. (1/6) 🔭 🧪

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Just Neptune and one of its besties, moon Triton. In 2022, #NASAWebb captured this near-infrared view of Neptune, located approximately 2.7 billion miles from Earth. This image includes the planet’s rings, windy atmosphere, and methane ice-clouds: bit.ly/4fZQO8N 🔭 🧪

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Image by Michael Carroll shows some asteroids to scale. We did NOT see the little one coming & it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring >1400 people. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is bigger than the little one, perhaps as large as the football field! JWST 🔭 data next month will help pin down the size.

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look at this little guy

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Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

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Big news! We’ve just launched some new accounts 🎉 Give them a follow: 🔭 @esascience.esa.int 🧑‍🚀 @esaexploration.esa.int 🚀 @esatransport.esa.int 🌍 @esaearth.esa.int 📡 @esaoperations.esa.int ⚙️ @esatechnology.esa.int 🛰️ @esaconnectivity.esa.int Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! 💙✨

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Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave birth to a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Sunday night. The newborn, covered in distinctive white spots and stripes resembling a fuzzy walking watermelon, is only the second tapir born in our 120-year history.

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Meet N79: home to the Local Group’s newest super star cluster Super star clusters are rarities now: so late in cosmic history. But over in the Large Magellanic Cloud, we've just discovered a new one thanks to JWST and ALMA combined. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #astronomy #science

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This strangely looking object in space is protoplanetary disc HH30. Combining data from Webb, Hubble and ALMA has given astronomers an insight into the object’s distinct structures and drifting dust grains. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭🧪

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Br. Guy was interviewed during a workshop on Astrophysics held at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

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The dust grain: small but packed with potential. Begin your journey as a dust grain, make choices, and unlock your destiny. Do you end up contributing to rocky planet formation? Grow into a gas giant? Adopt the dust belt lifestyle? Let us know: bit.ly/3BkBi9m 🔭 🧪

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Everyone agreed that keeping publicly-funded research behind paywalls was a bad idea, so funders pushed for open access. So publishers lobbied govts, and managed to get huge open access fees written into research funding T&Cs. It's an astonishing example of corporate lobbying trumping common sense.

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A gentle reminder that Paranal is endangered. 🔭

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It’s squirrel appreciation day! Squirrels are not literally dark matter. Thanks @xkcd.com

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I am offering something comforting on this dark day: the NGC-2070 open nebula seen by the JWST! 🔭 So many new stars are born there, in the LMC, as it lies at the centre of the Tarentula Nebula. New stars, new hope for a better future 🙏 HD: flic.kr/p/2qGjSxc

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Hoo boy, I bet you could use a distraction today! So how about an intense JWST image of a pair of colossal stars whizzing past each other and blasting out wave after wave of dusty shells, expanding away at a soul-freezing NINE MILLION KPH?! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/two-coloss... 🧪🔭

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From the same program, I just remembered that there was another set of data: the outer parts of this open cluster! 🔭 As I just finished processing it, might as well share it too today! HD: flic.kr/p/2qGfxTs

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Paper (and press release) week! 🧪🔭 I'm so excited to share this awesome research result from @emmalieb.bsky.social and me, in a collaboration between @uofdenver.bsky.social and @noirlabastro.bsky.social. We made a JWST time lapse to watch the dust shells around WR140 expand!

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On receiving the prestigious Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, Marcia Rieke says: “Receiving a prize like this honors not only me, but also the thousands of people that made the mission happen for which I'm extremely grateful." Read more here: bit.ly/4hjbQQR

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From #AAS245: "Young Stars in the Milky Way’s Backyard Challenge Our Understanding of How They Form" JWST and ALMA reveal hidden clusters of young stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), revealing how some of the first stars in the universe were born. 🔗 public.nrao.edu/news/young-s...

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A truly transformative mission, one of the most impactful, one that punched far above its cost class, one that will be remembered as a huge milestone in the history of astronomy. Congratulations and ❤️❤️ to the whole @esa.int Gaia team. #AAS245

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The ESA #Gaia mission has delivered the best Milky Way maps to date and taken its last starlight before spacecraft retirement 🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

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Does anyone know if the Magellanic Clouds will be covered in any of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope surveys? All I could find in my initial search is that the LMC would be good for calibration. 🔭

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Astronomers using #NASAWebb identified two stars that generate carbon-rich dust in our Milky Way. When the stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 swing by one another on their elongated orbits, their winds collide and produce dust that expands outward: webbtelescope.pub/42bqgOP #AAS245 🔭 🧪

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So proud of @uofdenver.bsky.social Ph.D. student Emma Lieb and her super cool JWST result! #AAS245

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Want to know the latest cool #jwst results from your favourite Wolf-Rayet star. You know the one the star with all those dust rings. Tune into the #AAS245 press conference starting soon!

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Very proud supervisor moment, with Conor Nally awarded #HST time to observe the bar of NGC 6822 with WFC3/IR medium-band filters to match our #JWST footprint.  This was the first proposal he had written and was the only opportunity to get this data! 🔭🧪

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Possibly one of the most successful astronomy missions ever.

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Hello @bsky.app, here's to looking into more #bluesky and beyond... 😉

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"The AtLAST project has demonstrated that the pursuit of transformational science can go hand in hand with a more sustainable approach", states project coordinator @claudiacicone.bsky.social in this interview for #CORDIS @ec.europa.eu cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4... 🔭 🧪

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Applications are open for the Space Astronomy Summer Program (SASP) at STScI. Every year, a dozen highly motivated college students work individually with STScI researchers and staff on science projects. Learn more and apply: www.stsci.edu/opportunitie... 🔭 🧪

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New paper✨ Some of the dustiest evolved stars might not lose as much mass or produce as much dust as we thought. It’s looking like they might have equatorially enhanced dust envelopes 🍩 possibly shaped by binary companions💫. arxiv.org/abs/2501.027... @anywaythewind.bsky.social #astronomy #stars

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Need more galaxies in your feed? Of course you do. Over the break I made @arpbot.bsky.social. It posts an image of a galaxy from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies twice a day. Images are from the archives of professional observatories and the original 1966 catalog. Give it a follow! 🔭🧪

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Seen some stunning JWST images today. I love this part of my job when you get to admire the beauty of the universe for a wee while when the data is fresh of the telescope.

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Make sure you use an ultrashort pulsed potato masher when preparing your Christmas dinner #physics #nonlinearoptics

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Making Christmas pudding is a common British tradition at Christmas - but changes in coin metal compositions mean you're better off avoiding the tradition of including a coin in the mixture for luck, as day 22 of #ChemAdvent24 explains #ChemSky 🧪

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Crisis in #cosmology fans: if you want to hear me & @madifinlay.bsky.social chat about Emeritus Profs sleeping through seminars only to wake up to ask the pertinent "but what about dust?" or "have you considered magnetic fields", this week's @theguardian.com Science weekly podcast is for you!🧪🔭👩‍🔬

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