O stars are the cleaners of our galaxy 🙂‍↕️

Guest submission by Arunima Arunima 💫

the ads on webda are getting out of hand 😔

"Dust symbolizes ego, attachment, and mental clutter." 👏👏👏 Guest submission by @lillykormann.bsky.social

The magnitude system is one of the most hated parts of astronomy. Reply to this post with your ideas on how to fix it!

It all makes sense now

🔭 Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster Image Credit & Copyright: Kamil Fiedosiuk apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26022...

can't believe that our Sun chose to leave its birth cluster. can't believe I have to spend my whole life in orbit around a hater.

don't know what we'd do without clustering algorithms

happy holidays! may your stars be clustered ✨ and your isochrone fits perfect 👌

tfw your bae half-crops you out of the group pic on insta

European Space Agency@esa.int · 8mo ago

🆕 This NASA/ESA/CSA #Webb Space Telescope image shows the Westerlund 2 star cluster. 🧪🔭 🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/12/Webb_Dwarf_stars_in_a_glittering_sky @science.esa.int @stsci.edu

ok hear me out: what if we just removed all dust (✨ guest submission ✨ by @alexis-space.bsky.social)

make sure to think of Coma Ber this christmas 💔

wtf i was born 98.2±15 million years ago but Bluesky won't let me enter my birthday

it had better make a star cluster when it does 😠

while i_cant_code: print(silly_memes)

so sad. I found out today that the local star formation efficiency is just 8%. that is such an awfully slow rate of converting the ISM (eww, icky) into star clusters. heartbreaking.

Teaching is very serious business. In other news, I made this critical diagram during the class I was teaching today. Might have to put this into my next NSF proposal

Everyone always asks "where" are the open clusters, but never "how" are the open clusters 😤

this is what my favourite dust map would look like if dust didn't exist 😠

Alexis Quintana@alexis-space.bsky.social · 11mo ago

You can also make pretty dust maps so it's worth it 😌

wait, what do you mean I need the ISM to make clusters

O stars were made to be yeeted ✨ guest submission by @alexis-space.bsky.social

who else remembers this iconic scene from The Mandalorian? 🙏

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average PhD student

petition to remove dust from the milky way 1 like = 1 dust grain removed

we have gotta get Gaia NIR someday so that we can find them all 😠

do not ask me the forbidden question