It's quite an honor to be the 2025 champion of the Princeton Astro Ping Pong Tournament, 70 years after the commencement of this event!

In case anyone has not seen this petition but wants to sign it in support of the NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group: chng.it/VcGHJGt2y8

Radon xkcd.com/3037

The skies above Paranal are at risk from a proposed industrial megaproject.  This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations. Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/ 🔭  📷 ESO/P. Horálek

JWST observed NGC 3351 two days ago. This one was processed by @yuvharpaz.bsky.social nerdculture.de/@yuvharpaz/1... 🔭 🧪

#NASAWebb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument reveals that galaxy NGC 1433 contains dust and bubbles of gas throughout its spiral arms. Despite that, the galaxy has a low amount of dust and brightness, which hints at a recent collision with another galaxy: bit.ly/3ZXX4cN 🔭 🧪

The work to defend the rights of women and immigrants and trans people, to preserve basic democratic and economic and international institutions, and to protect our planet - all just became immeasurably harder and more exhausting. Still very much worth it, though. Let's keep going.

Temperature Scales xkcd.com/3001

For anyone looking for astro postdoc positions this year: the NHFP application feedback program is back! We have a group of current/former postdoc fellows volunteering to provide unofficial feedback to your application material on a best-effort basis. Applicant sign-up: forms.gle/SrfZVNjniZQP... 🔭

Check out those amazing MeerKAT HI data in @astrocosi.bsky.social's paper! We are really in a new era of high-resolution HI study

Types of Eclipse Photo xkcd.com/2917

“Save Chandra” website now up with explanation of the budgetary threat to this Great Observatory, some necessary corrections regarding current mission capabilities and operating costs, and - most important - ways that you can help. 🧪 🔭 🛰️ Spread widely!

We are live! 🔭 ✨ PHANGS-JWST infrared imaging of 19 nearby galaxies ✨ ~100,000 PHANGS-HST star clusters and associations across 38 nearby galaxies 👉 data release archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/phangs 👉 press and image release webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

And we have a PHANGS-JWST press release this morning! The images are ABSOLUTELY worth checking out... webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

🔭 Paper day! If you'd like to know what matched-resolution ALMA+HST+JWST data can tell us about "infant" massive clusters and their birth timeline, check out my latest paper on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2401.14453 And now I've earned the right to officially claim M95 (NGC3351) as my favorite galaxy! 😁

“Disorientation” by @astrokatie.com makes me realise I should have more science poetry in my life. A compressed epic that flings you across the vast expanse of time and space. Pleased to see there’s an audio version read by Mack, as well as the written piece. #Science #Poetry #Astronomy

My first paper is out now on the arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/2401.01737) and through advance access on MNRAS (academic.oup.com/mnras/advanc... ) I investigate the conditions needed to form filaments in the cold neutral medium through a periodic turbulent box simulation.

1/ Using IRAM's NOEMA interfrometer, MPIA's Sophia Stuber and Eva Schinnerer have mapped the stellar nurseries of cold, dense gas in the Whirlpool Galaxy. They found interesting differences in the chemical probes they used. 🔭 www.mpia.de/news/science...

OK this is the mind-blowing image of the week for me: the total global biomass of mammals. Wild animals are a tiny proportion. From a paper by Ron Milo Lab at Weizmann Institute, via a great Oxford lecture by @marionkoopmans.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🧪🔭 #MilkyWay23 Jiayi Sun starting to put MW in context

Situation not good: spacenews.com/nasa-conside...

I just set up an automated way to send out invite codes to astro folk who request them 😁 I think I can send out about 100/day. 🔭 Donate any codes you have here: forms.gle/R35p4MRSwpk2... & please share this code request form with other astro folks: forms.gle/GggKAPv8Vcrv...

#apod 2023-10-07 The Once and Future Stars of Andromeda Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231007.html

It is incredible what academia put Karikó through, and how she persevered.

We're hiring @CarnegieAstro this year! If you're on the #astronomy job market, consider joining us! #academicbsky #academicjobs #academicchatter

Boom! Protostellar jets captured by JWST

New paper out today, led by the inimitable Nia Imara! We find that adopting a cylindrical geometry for famous nearby molecular clouds yields new and sometimes counterintuitive scaling relations, e.g. more massive clouds tend to have lower central densities! 🔭🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2309.04532

🔭 Are you on the postdoc job market? Interested in star formation in nearby galaxies with JWST? Apply for this postdoc with my wonderful colleague Dr Ana Duarte Cabral! Deadline 15th Sept. Two years (+possibility of extension) https://tinyurl.com/2vyaryxa

LIGO: "WOW! Did you feel that! A bunch of black holes merged!!!" Astronomers: "omg where" LIGO: "dunno, like, over there.." Astronomers, whose grants and livelihood repend on these things: 🫠 🔭