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astroeric.bsky.social
Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Dachshund dad, bass guitarist, linguist, astronomer, video and TTRPG gamer. Crypto is the biggest scam ever. No Whatsapp/Meta/Telegram. (He/Him)
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A beautiful spiral for your timeline! 🔭 This is the NGC-6956 galaxy, as seen by Hubble in 2021! It is located some 214 million light years away from us. I really have fun each time I process Hubble data like this one 😊 HD: flic.kr/p/2qXnhqZ

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6 years ago this week, the Event Horizon Telescope released the world's first black hole image🎉🎊 #blackhole #astronomy #astrophysics

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Very interesting! Newgrange builders from 3600BC or so, originally mixture of Anatolian/Aegean farmers/cattle breeders plus Neolithic hunter gatherers of NW Europe (France). Lots of neolithic mixing between Ireland, Orkneys/Caithness/Wales/Northumbria.Trade/Culture. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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Because every timeline needs a romp of otters chasing a butterfly 🦋 📽️animalw0rld

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Sharing the undergraduate resource guide that we produced on the AAS Education Committee: drive.google.com/file/d/10KSy...

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This is Autumn. She was born without one paw. Gets along just fine with three, but still sometimes uses a prosthetic leg when she wants to blend in. 13/10

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DYK? Our LISA mission will capture and study ripples in the fabric of spacetime. To detect these gravitational waves, LISA will measure the subtle differences in distance between free-floating cubes nestled within its three spacecraft. Find out more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪

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Exciting news: @natastron.nature.com published our paper "Andromeda’s asymmetric satellite system as a challenge to cold dark matter cosmology" led by my PhD student Jamie Kanehisa in collaboration with @aippotsdam.bsky.social colleague @cosmicwebmaster.bsky.social 🔭🧪☄️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A little of what we know about Anglo-Saxon marriage: anniewhitehead2.blogspot.com/2017/05/on-a...

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Take a deep breath and look at these otters relaxing. You probably need it.

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⚫️💥 From boring to bursting - a giant black hole named Ansky has woken up with repetitive, extremely powerful X-ray bursts. Puzzled scientists are on the case, monitoring Ansky with ESA's XMM-Newton and other telescopes. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪

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#LISACommunityTalks The #LISACommunity recently hosted a talk by Senwen Deng on a paper by Senwen Deng, Stanislav Babak, Maude Le Jeune, Sylvain Marsat, Éric Plagnol, Andrea Sartirana: "Modular global-fit pipeline for LISA data analysis", linked here 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2501.10277

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I’m making new tiny beasts. And even better, I’ll be making *special* tiny beasts to raise money for trans rights!!

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Melting glaciers in Norway have uncovered a 1,300-year-old pair of skis, offering insights into past human adaptation to climate change and high-altitude winter travel.

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