#Astronomy

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astrobassball

In physics/astronomy, >90% of PhDs will not get a tenure-track position.There are ways to guide+mentor grad students+postdocs to build fulfilling careers and find success in AND out of academia.Blanket attacks

Dr Robin George Andrews 🌋

SquigglyVolcano

We have one sun. Scientists just found a system with SIX STARS - three pairs, w/ each star in *perfect* eclipse with its partner. Anyone there “could see two suns

astrotweeps: Pratik (@astrogandhi)

astrotweeps

Many of you may have already heard, but I want to address the latest news on the Arecibo Observatory (@NAICobservatory)This morning, @NSF announced that the telescope's instrument platform has collapsed

Cory Schmitz ⭐ PhotographingSpace.com

TheAstroShake

LIVESTREAM ALERT 1/This is a big one.Tonight, a ~726km wide object in the Kuiper Belt will make a star disappear, for ~33 seconds!I will be recording the #occultation, and showing

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

Moudhy

Excited (and nervous) to give a Zoom lecture today to a 5th-grade class about astronomy in ancient Mesopotamia and its legacy! It’s impossible to talk about any aspect of scholarship

People_of_Space: Nicholas

People_Of_Space

1/ This week I’ve talked mostly about Paranal, because after having spent there over 600 nights I’ve picked up a thing or two ;-) Today I’d like to tell you

Brian Frank

brianwfrank

Compared to other professors in my department, I definitely rely more so on my own observational experiences when answering naked-eye astronomy questions, and the mental models I can run from

J.D.Rodriguez-Blanco

jdrodriguezTCD

[1/20] My students often ask me how I learnt to make nice images for papers, cool diagrams, videos or programs. So here goes some facts about my personal experiences to

john milbank

johnmilbank3

Why are we so convinced that our scientifically superior analysis of a very few remaining texts is superior to the ancient knowledge of their own past based on many texts

Mayur Singh

everydayyspace

If you look at earth from space you see a dot that's here that's home that's us on it everyone you ever heard of every human being who ever lived

Lindy Elkins-Tanton

ltelkins

A little western Massachusetts astronomy and telescope history adventure thread, out in the woods! Up in the woods just a comfortable hike from our house is the site of Alvan

Stephen Chew

SChewPsych

Critical thinking has always been a top goal of educators. But teaching critical thinking skills has never been more important or more challenging than now. Olden days, critical thinking was

Lakshminarayan G

narayanagl

*Father Of The Nation* they taught you. But the *True Fathers* Of the #Indian #Civilisation never appeared in our syllabus 1. Father of #astronomy: Aryabhatta; work - Aryabhattiyam2. Father of

Dr. Héloïse Stevance 🖤✨(she)

Sydonahi

IT'S ASTROTIMEStellar NurseriesThat is the name for regions of space filled with gas and dust and bright young stars! Active star formation is truly a thing of beauty just

Sarafina Nance

starstrickenSF

a friend showed her 6y/o niece one of my Constellations episodes, who asked if I’d been to space. my friend replied “Not yet.” she then said, “I bet she will.

Jackie Faherty

jfaherty

Check out our NEW paper on a collection of cold brown dwarfs discovered by citizen scientists:https://www.nasa.gov/feature/citizen-scientists-discover-dozens-of-new-cosmic-neighbors-in-nasa-data This paper was an amazing amount of work by p

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