#Astronomy

🇧🇧 Ethereal Bisexual Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

IBJIYONGI

Want to make a comment about this book and the timeline of how I got here. When I graduated from HS, I was told it was good I wanted to

Hindu Imperium

KaivalyaVishwa1

Western claims about Greek astronomy and maths in general and about Ptolemy in particular are deeply problematic.We have no sure means to actually know what exactly this ptolemy discovered.why?Thread.https://twitter.com/Hiranyareta/status/1

𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖇𝖊𝖐𝖆-𝕽𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝕭ē𝖎' 𝕸𝖆𝖌𝖈𝖆𝖎

Thobeka_Rare

Seeing that a 2020 review will only bring hurtful memories, let's rather indulge in a short thread on phenomenal natural moments of 2020. Time person of the year should undoubtedly

chrislintott

chrislintott

At the #AAS237 conference yesterday I went to a panel discussion on the effect of large constellations of satellites on astronomy from the ground. The thousands of satellites @spacex and

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

Sophia Gad-Nasr

Astropartigirl

Yeah dude I just HATE knowing how things work! Who the fuck CARES how the Universe will die, or that we don't understand 95% of it SO WHAT. I hate

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Something I’ve been thinking about. The earliest telescopes after Galileo were often very high f numbers to mitigate chromatic aberration because they didn’t know how to make achromatic lenses and

نادِي مجرّة 🌌 Galaxy Club

Majarrah_SA

Today 457 years ago, one of the greatest astronomers of all times, Galileo Galilei was born! Galil was born in February 15th, 1546 AD in Pisa, Italy, where he lived for

kristopher g phillips

kristopherGphil

Alright #twittercartesians, here we go. *Descartes’ Hidden Defense of the Piety of Heliocentrism*A few things by way of preface:1. I don’t think the meditator (the “I” in the meds) is

Dr Fiona H. Panther

FiPanther

I'm going to venture back into #scicomm and talk about gravitational wave detection. Four months ago I left behind my old research field and jumped into detecting gravitational waves. Followup

Jamie Groh

AlteredJamie

This segment started so positively discussing dark sky reserves and amateur astrophotographers being able to contribute to the world of astronomy & scientific discovery, then spiraled into (Starlink) satellites are

Charlotte A. Cavatica

cavaticat

hey FYI any time you see a “photo” of an exoplanet, it’s an artistic concept and/or a bot generation. we don’t have the technology to directly image exoplanets in high-resolution.

Really But Not Really A Senator This Time Person

sayer_of_stuff

By... not exactly popular demand, but certainly popular accidental suggestion, here's some Astronomy History with a focus on America, while drunk! HAPPY 4TH!https://twitter.com/sayer_of_stuff/status/1279594826661539841?s=20 As long as t

Briley Lewis

briles_34

so I asked what I as a grad student can do for anti-blackness in astronomy at #aas237, because it often feels like these big structural things are beyond my power

🌿Baakwezhigan Ⓐ🏴✿ ACAB ✾🌿

nish_gay

Saying Indigenous people were "conquered" or to "get over it" like it's ever okay to tell people who were put thru genocide anything like that. Spreading the debunked land bridge

Dr./Prof. Sam Lawler

sundogplanets

My @CAPhys lecture about Planet 9 and how megaconstellations are about to ruin the sky is posted here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA6OSDI61h4&feature=youtu.beThank you to the organizers! Summary: If you don't know your observat

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