*sigh* guess back to dilly dallying it is
gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs
@gaiamemes.bsky.social
memes about your favorite telescope at L2
please like this we need to free those poor little fellas 🫶
petition to remove dust from the milky way 1 like = 1 dust grain removed
your email finds me in the thermally unstable regime between WNM and CNM
"comparison is the thief of joy" tell yourself that BEFORE you start comparing my beautiful hubble telescope to your new gen fancy smancy telescope again. Think about how that would make her feel. She has been the greatest for the longest of time and we owe her the world
New age determination method if my cluster can open a child safety cap it is a young cluster otherwise it is an old cluster in this paper I will use
it is a hint from the universe to go outside and sit in the sun
use your priors people ☝️
Today we say goodbye to ESA’s Milky Way-mapper Gaia! The Gaia spacecraft has completed its sky-scanning and will be switched off this morning.
no way pete hegseth just texted me the origin of the imf
why dont you go observe the way shear rips apart unbound groupings of stars and maybe then you'll calm down
"Etendue, Brute?" — Julius Caesar, spectrograph builder
“Ecru, Brute?” - Julius Caesar, interior decorator
doomscrolling on the AAS job registry
being alive is great because there are so many colours you can try out in matplotlib. but then there is also the horrors
unmatched astrometrizz 💥💕send this to your boo
Can't believe we're obsessed with classifying my beloved
tending to my realm (cleaning up my github)
the astro community posting their research here on bluesky is kinda like hanging assignments you are proud of on the fridge but virtual
and then those magnetic field enjoyers turn around and create galactic maps consisting of 18 differently oriented strokes only they can read
left my son who is a 40 solar mass O type star sitting in the car while I was getting milk, came back after 20 Myr but could not find my son, has anyone seen my son?
The end of Gaia observations will be a sad day, but I think it's also something worth celebrating, as Gaia has been an incredibly successful mission. And best of all, the data is completely open and free for anyone to access - it's a monumental triumph of open science. 🔭
Gaia end of observations - Gaia - Cosmos
cosmos.esa.int
Think twice before gifting someone an M dwarf this holiday season
how it feels to crossmatch gaia with apogee sources and retrieve all of them