#Astronomer

Indian History

IndianHistory0

Varāhamihira says a good astronomer should be handsome & have a good physique. (अभिजातः प्रियदर्शनो विनीतवेषः)Merits and demerits are often reflective of the physical appearance of

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

Smail

smailtronic

Ok, let's take a little dive into some of the nifty things in this photo! 1/19https://twitter.com/smailtronic/status/1352360664229097475 This is the group photo from the 50th meeting of the American Astronomical Society,

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

The Songhai Empire of 16th century in West Africa had a government position called ‘Minister for Etiquette and Protocol.’And One of the government positions in the mediaeval Kanem-Borno kingdom was

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

The Songhai Empire of 16th century in West Africa had a government position called ‘Minister for Etiquette and Protocol.’ And One of the government positions in the mediaeval Kanem-Borno kingdom

Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚

emsque

OK tweeps, a SETI question for you this morning:Does anyone have primary sources for that time when we had everyone turn off their radios so we could try to hear

Petersfield Bookshop

The_PBS

If you are ever in need of an argument for buying, reading and keeping books about you, Carl Sagan’s amazing description of a book is worth learning by heart: leave

Juan Carlos Munoz

astro_jcm

1/ Last Friday @ESO released this awesome image of the surface of Betelgeuse, taken with the SPHERE instrument. You may have read that SPHERE uses a deformable mirror to correct

Robert McNees

mcnees

The astronomer Vera Rubin was born #OTD in 1928. Her work on galactic rotation curves became one of the main pieces of evidence for the existence of dark matter, and

Rory MacLellan

RFMacLellan

Reading an absolutely terrible Templar book for a project on Templar pseudo-histories. The preface alone claims that while the reason for Robert Bruce's excommunication 'may be well known', he couldn't

schrödinger's cat.

nehathemartian

Hello hello! Today's #scicomm thread will talk about one of the pioneers in the fields of astrophysics and cosmology aka my idol Vera Rubin, the astronomer who established the presence

Robert McNees

mcnees

Radio engineer, amateur astronomer, and Chicagoan Grote Reber was born #OTD in 1911. After reading about Karl Jansky’s accidental discovery of galactic radio emissions, he built a 9m radio telescope

Bill Morris 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

Lcars24

Make a habit of two things: to help, or at least to do no harm.—Hippocrates Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.—Thales of Miletus, pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, mathematician,

Dennis Yi Tenen

dennistenen

Editors! If you insist on "data" being plural pls also use the singular in noun adjuncts, eg "datum set" & "datum science," to parallel "quantum theory" or "chicken soup" (never

Peter Gainsford

PeterGainsford

The first myth of Christmas my true love told to me ...The 'pagan' Christmas tree. The original context of the Tannenbaum was firmly Christian, in 1500s Germany. No one's ever

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

Moudhy

What survives of the past is things, so it's easy to forget the people behind them whose lives, loves, worries, and wants might not have been so different from ours.Thread

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