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Spectroscopy is an incredibly useful tool for #NASAWebb to study objects in more depth. For example, transmission spectroscopy is useful for characterizing the composition of exoplanets’ atmospheres: webbtelescope.pub/3uJUKoW 🔭 🧪

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Tired of wondering which atomic lines are in your spectra? You need: whose line is it anyway? An interactive tool for identifying atomic spectral lines. 🧪🔭 #stars install: pip install whoseline source: github.com/bmorris3/who...

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OK, so my practice test has been submitted, now awaiting actual real data to assess. Meanwhile, I am a team of one in the UK <sniff>.

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We live in an age when commercial spacecraft are flying around the Moon and we're getting views of our homeworld like this one. Simply incredible. View from Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, scheduled to touch down Sunday in Mare Crisium on the Moon! Credit: @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social

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Ouch.

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Surfing physics 101: NEVER maintain your surfboard in a position parallel to the wavefront (only ever perpendicular to it - a state of transition is required, but between waves), else bruises or missing teeth might prevail. You'd think this would be obvious/intuitive, but I've seen it. #toptips ⚛️🏄

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Just starting getting to grips with Astrometrica for the sample data sets before I start looking at real data for the IASC (International Astronomical Search Collaboration) asteroid search campaign iasc.cosmosearch.org/Home

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The ZWO Seestar S50 looks great for the price and portability. I may have to get one 🔭 www.skyatnightmagazine.com/reviews/zwo-...

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Machine-assisted Classification Of Potential Biosignatures In Earth-like Exoplanets Using Low Signal-to-noise Ratio Transmission Spectra astrobiology.com/2025/02/mach... #astrobiology #biosignature

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Please help us get the word out: our 6 wk astrophysics 🧪🔭summer research program for international MSc students is open for application! Note this is aimed at students from disadvantaged regions or under-represented groups in astro! I will host one position on black holes ⚫️! aspire.science.uva.nl

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🚀 Fly over the NGC 3640 galaxy group, where an elliptical galaxy hides a dark past. This stunning 530-million-pixel image was captured by the VST hosted at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. Read more: www.eso.org/public/image... 🔭 🧪 #extragalactic 🎥 ESO

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KM3NeT xkcd.com/3053

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Not jealous. At all.

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Tsk.

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We need help finding others in the #space #astronomy community here on Bluesky! 📡🌌 Tag your favorite observatories, institutes, astronomers, astrophysicists, educators, network groups, etc below 👇

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I hope Charles Cockell will join us in the Bluesky ecosystem #astrobiology

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Project 2025, aimed at turning the US into a christofascist authoritarian state, is fully in progress. A third of the project's initial targets are already being met. www.project2025.observer

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Truly out of science fiction! 😲 Using ESO's #VLT, astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of an exoplanet's atmosphere for the first time. This atmosphere behaves in ways that challenge our understanding of how weather works. 🔭 🧪 #exoplanets https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2504/

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I can't believe it has already been 4 years since the Perseverance rover landed on Mars! #planetsci The rover was equipped with six engineering camera that captured more than 26.000 images during the landing! This thread contains some of my favorites:

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The Planetary Society strongly opposes the sudden, indiscriminate dismissal of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers, and explorers at NASA — the largest involuntary workforce reduction since the end of the Apollo program. Read more on our stance. ⬇️

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In hindsight, I preferred it when I thought we were getting Idiocracy compared to Don't Look Up.

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Global energy be like...

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Observing the planets...in daylight @celestronuniverse.bsky.social 🔭 www.celestron.com/blogs/knowle...

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Thanks @bsky.app - this is a useful addition.

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"Ongoing" is a very strong word for the current progress on Mars Sample Return, lol.

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Our hearts are with those at #NASA Ames 😓 nasawatch.com/personnel-ne...

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

Tim makes a compelling argument.

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Have you ever heard of a limnic eruption? Probably not, since only a few have occurred in recorded history. Here is a thread on one of the wildest natural disasters that almost never happen, and the “invisible tsunami” that claimed over 1,700 lives in the middle of the night, without a sound. 1/10🧵

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Evolving intelligent life took billions of years − but it may not have been as unlikely as many scientists predicted theconversation.com/evolving-int...

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Geochemist Nicolas Randazzo tells Nature about working with material from another planet and how he is planning for his career’s future, knowing that decades could pass before Martian samples get shipped back to Earth. 🧪 🔭

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#ICYMI - SETI Live: Earth Detecting Earth Radio signals are potentially visible from up to 12,000 light-years away. Simon Steel chatted with lead author Sofia Sheikh about her research's findings and their implications for the search for technosignatures. 🧪 🔭 🛰️ Watch here:

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Majestic Cleveland 🌋 in the Aleutian Archipelago in Alaska making an appearance to say 👋

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Perhaps NASA should re-examine its relationship and reliance on SpaceX.

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"NASA embraced diversity. Trump’s DEI purge is hitting space scientists hard" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Honestly, I highly recommend people come back to do a PhD later in life. You have better life skills to deal with what the PhD throws at you, but also you're more established/settled, you are extremely passionate about the topic and you bring lots of soft skills you gained in life into it.

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