In Spain for the 12 August Total Solar Eclipse? ☀️ Come watch it with us in León. Join scientists, engineers and astronomy experts for a free programme of: 🔴 interactive activities 🔴 talks and 🔴 live observations. 🔭 🧪 1/3 #EuropeanSolarEclipse
Everybody stop what you're doing! LEGO has just announced a Hubble Space Telescope set 😱 www.lego.com/cdn/cs/set/a...
OPPORTUNITY: The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD, is seeking researchers with scientific and technical skills in a broad range of areas in astronomy or planetary science, whether observational, instrumental or theoretical: https://bit.ly/4tayz7d
Webb & Hubble have looked at thousands of young star clusters in four nearby galaxies ✨🧪🔭 Their new findings give us a better grasp of star formation and how planets form. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... @science.esa.int
Would you like to be part of citizen science astronomy? We invite you to classify gravitational lens candidates in so-far unreleased #ESAEuclid data: "Space Warps – ESA Euclid DR1". #ESA #Euclid #astronomy #GravitationalLensing #science #CitizenScience.
Oh look that's my favorite telescope 😍
Space Telescope Science Institute@stsci.edu · 3mo agoWell, isn’t this a sight for sore eyes! 😍 Our beloved Hubble appears in this amazing image from one of Vantor's WorldView Legion satellites. It was 36 years ago today that Hubble was launched in the bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Vantor.
Edit: my glasses and the coffee machine are fixed, the telescope proposal is submitted and spring has arrived in Minneapolis. Life is good.
Alexandra Le Reste@alereste.bsky.social · 4mo agoAnd now my glasses are broken too?
Currently in peak telescope proposal season: of course that is when the office coffee machine decides to break 😭
After a ten-day mission around the moon, the Artemis II astronauts will have traveled nearly 700,000 miles. Today is the final hurdle: reentry. Here's where we stand right now: www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA) 🔗 www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour... @exploration.esa.int l
I DID IT. Homemade sourdough baguette. In less than 10 minutes. My life will never be the same again.
IPAC's Visiting Graduate Student Research Fellowship (#VGSRF) is accepting applications! ✨Gain research experience and mentoring from IPAC scientists ✨Access large science datasets🔭 ✨Receive a monthly stipend Browse the projects and apply by 3/31: www.ipac.caltech.edu/page/graduate-fellowship-2027
📸 This new NASA/ESA #Hubble Space Telescope image features the Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543). Hubble’s sharp vision meets Euclid’s wide view to uncover this spectacular portrait of a dying star. esahubble.org/images/potm2... @science.esa.int @stsci.edu
On the way to Geneva observatory last week: some commutes just hit different ✨
#ESOjobs If you are a PhD student in astronomy or related scientific fields, you can apply for the ESO Studentship Programme 2026/2027. Positions are available at our Headquarters in Germany or in our offices in Santiago (Chile). Apply by: 20 April 2026. Details: https://recruitment.eso.org/ 🔭
Beatrice Tinsley was born #OTD in 1941. British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist, and the first female professor of #astronomy at Yale University, whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve, grow, and die. #WomenInSTEM (1/2)
Crazy overhead proton aurora now from Fall Creek, Wisconsin! These sporadic views are possible now with +Bz. Aurora won't die off completely but strange auroral forms and sporadic substorms are possible tonight. This storm is keeping us on our toes! go.theauroraguy.com/webcams
This morning Minneapolis woke up to a sundog ❄️☀️🌈 One of the coolest perks of cold cold winters!
Something’s a little sus… 👀 Flares, flashes, and fakes — not every change in the night sky is what it seems 💥✨ Test your skills with Rubin Difference Detectives on Zooniverse! Help Rubin scientists spot cosmic events (and catch the imposters). 🌌🔍 👉 zooniverse.org/rubin
If you live in the Northern hemisphere, keep an eye on the sky tomorrow night 🌌👀
Vincent Ledvina@vincentledvina.bsky.social · 9mo agoSWPC has only ever issued a handful of G4 watches, and we have now for Nov 12 due to three incoming CMEs. Storming may begin on Nov 11 with the impact of the first CME with two more close behind it. If the forecast verifies, much of the U.S. may see the aurora Tue/Wed nights.
If you've got a few minutes, Zooniverse has a project mapping road damage from Hurricane Melissa to support humanitarian work in the Caribbean ❤️🩹 The project is almost done but needs a few extra classifications - and *you* can help here: www.zooniverse.org/projects/ali...
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Aaand, the dataset for Hubble observations of LaCOS galaxies is now public! 🌌 This was two years in the making, and honestly a great fun to lead the data reduction. Much more science will come out of these observations: stay tuned 💫
MAST - Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes@mast-news.bsky.social · 11mo agoNew HLSP: LACOS = Layman-Alpha and Continuum Origins Survey! Data from HST of 42 low redshift compact, star forming galaxies. Reduced images of each filter, Lyman-alpha line and continuum maps, general properties catalog, and a preview RGB composite for each target. 🔭 archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/lacos
This week I unlocked the best work view I'll ever have. It's all downhill from here.
Hello Bluesky 👋🏻 I've been lurking around for a few months now, but figured it's finally time for a proper intro. So: hi, I'm Alex! I'm a researcher in astrophysics, and I specialize in galaxy hunting 🌌 Outside of that, you'll typically find me running or baking (usually one after the other).