We added some nice features to our JWST Search interface. HST rolling out in next couple months, along with more goodies.

Technicians recently tested two major deployments for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: the Deployable Aperture Cover (DAC) and the Solar Array Sun Shield (SASS): go.nasa.gov/41X95PN #NASARoman 🔭 🧪

When I decided to pursue astronomy as a career, inspired by Star Wars, there were no known real planets orbiting stars like the Sun. Now we can take baby photos and SEE them. Incredible, and building off of decades of work by others who came before to get us collectively to this place.

Four years' worth of Ca HK activity measurements with more planned on the way. Great dataset for anyone exploring stellar activity now at MAST!

@commondescentpod.bsky.social Motivation for a Silver Screen episode on Star Wars? Best Star Wars planets for optimal fossilization? What kind of dinosaur was Boba Fett riding in the Christmas Special? Were krayt dragons actually dragons? Dragon*con topic perhaps!? www.wired.com/story/an-anc...

The more we look with #NASAWebb, the more we find! The latest discovery? A tiny new moon orbiting Uranus. It’s just six miles (9.6 kilometers) in diameter: science.nasa.gov/blogs/webb/2... 🔭 🧪

Job for AWS experts – become Senior Cloud Software Developer at @stsci.edu, apply by Sept 19: recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/...

Tim Rhue, education specialist at STScI, packs up new tactile panels based on the first #NASAWebb image of Uranus. These panels are being sent to museums, libraries, and other educational sites, so that they can share this tactile experience with their audiences. 🔭

Ever wondered what the "MAST Sky" looks like, from our ~6 PB of data spanning 3 decades...check this out! spacetelescope.github.io/mast-blog/ma... Really fun project led by the very talented Julie Imig at MAST, showing mission coverage sky-projected! They make VERY good video backgrounds, btw. 🔭

NASA's new PUNCH mission is a constellation of 4 small satellites that collectively provide an unprecedented view of giant eruptions breaking free from the Sun. This first-release video compresses about 6 days of observations. 🧪🔭 science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/...

Hooray for three years of paw-sitively amazing #NASAWebb science! To celebrate, the telescope examined a singular “toe bean” of the Cat’s Paw Nebula, a massive star-forming region. Webb reveals gas, dust, and massive young stars: webbtelescope.pub/4khJK9T 🔭 Reply with an image of your pet’s paws! 🐾

This is what we are doing after Roman. But only if NASA science funding is kept at the levels we need. It takes decades to plan and build these missions, and it’s only possible through steady public support AND stable federal funding throughout the years.

The work our talented team does to ensure the public learns about discoveries made with NASA telescopes, and our place in the Universe, risks being lost without at least keeping NASA’s funding flat. The current budget plan removes almost all of it. If this matters to you, make sure your reps know.

Links to register to all our events! www.blackinastro.com/black-space-...

I present the #astrocode Pyriod for interactive or scripted pre-whitening frequency analysis of astronomical time series data. See the demo of #stellarastro #TESS data analysis of a pulsating white dwarf star. Check it out at github.com/keatonb/Pyriod/.

Excited for #BlackSpaceWeek 2025! #BlackInAstro

Have you ever started a Python process, realized that you made a mistake, immediately hit Ctrl+C to interrupt it and then waited a surprisingly long time to get the command line back? This delay is caused by a bug in the compiled #Python extension. :thread:

Professional astronomers: Follow this official account that will keep researchers up to date on preparing for and participating in Roman research!

Learn how to use our powerful cloud platforms at the AAS meeting in Alaska! We need more interested attendees! 🔭

NEW: Those undulations aren’t clouds—they’re Jupiter’s aurora as seen by #NASAWebb. Webb observed light from a particular molecule, represented in orange, and found that the planet’s aurora fluctuates on timescales of minutes or seconds: webbtelescope.pub/4kbsB20 🔭 🧪

Experience the Cosmic Cliffs like never before! #NASAWebb’s iconic image of dusty “mountains” and “valleys” is featured in a new 3D visualization from NASA’s Universe of Learning: webbtelescope.pub/4jRHIh9 🔭 🧪

For those attending the AAS in the summer, consider signing up to take our data workshop where you'll learn how to effectively use our cloud platforms to query for data, access catalogs, and create image cutouts! Very relevant for TESS and Roman astronomers in particular, but all are welcome!

Astronomers will use #NASARoman to improve our understanding of the universe. See the bigger picture with Roman. Credit: NASA, STScI, Caltech/IPAC. 🔭 🧪

A project I worked on got its official release today. ViewSpace Interactive Image Tours offer a guided exploration of astronomical images. Designed to be used on touch screens in museums and science centers, they are also fun to explore on your own 🔭🧪🎢 www.universe-of-learning.org/contents/new...

New high level science product at MAST used paid citizen scientists to help train an image similarity algorithm. Could be used in the future to enable searches like "find me all the MAST images that look like this one". Neat stuff. 🔭

Have you head of astroquery, the Python package that let's you search and access astrophysical data? You can do a lot with the MAST submodule within astroquery! We also have tutorials to get you started! Here's our latest tutorial 🔭: spacetelescope.github.io/mast_noteboo...

Excited that the primary paper for ULLYSES, a large director's discretionary program on Hubble to observe a set of UV stellar spectra is out and on arXiv. A lot of work completed by a lot of people to create and curate this legacy dataset: arxiv.org/abs/2504.05446 🔭

Next paper I want to highlight: the paper for STRAUSS by @trayford.bsky.social et al. came out! ☄️ #astrocode STRAUSS is a tool for sonifying scientific data, meaning you can enhance the presentation & accessibility of your data. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.01660 Here's a great example:

Took longer than I would have liked (my fault entirely) but the HLSP I worked on and got published back in 2023(!) is now announced. Almost 2,000 GALEX light curves at 30-second resolution, from the hard work of Chase Million running gPhoton2 on cloud and filtering out loads of false positives! 🔭

We do not need disruption in space science. You want NASA to be even more amazing than it currentlyis? Give it stable, predictable funding on the timescales of the projects it is building(decades) (And more of it, too)

Let's debunk this whole "space is hard" mantra. Looking at all NASA-led missions launched since 2000, only 4 out of ~60 missions experienced total failures. Two of these were due to issues with the commercial launch vehicle, & two were spacecraft issues. That is a *93% success rate.* (1/n)

Montage video showing Roman Space Telescope assembly over 2024! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ_k... 🔭

Tired of wondering which atomic lines are in your spectra? You need: *whose line is it anyway?* An interactive tool for identifying atomic spectral lines. 🧪🔭 #stars install: pip install whoseline source: github.com/bmorris3/who...

JOBS: Calling all cloud, software and network engineers! Take a look at the variety of jobs available at @spacetelescope.bsky.social: recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/...

So many people are hoping that if they comply a little bit now, they will be in a position to resist big later, but that's not how it works You comply a little bit now and they move the goal posts and you comply a little bit more and they move the goal posts and eventually 10+ million people die

Happy Black History Month. Listen to, support, fund, and uplift Black people. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth Black journos: go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb Black scientists: go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a Black academics: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb Black democracy experts: go.bsky.app/6WTBzhX Black in tech: go.bsky.app/2RAbS3g

In 2021, we released a unique planetarium show for blind or low vision kids, using sounds and music convey space. Music of course is very cultural... now we've collaborated with Trinidadian scientists and musicians for a Caribbean version, watch below (1/n)! 🧪🔭⚡☀️🐡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjkA...

New contributed dataset provides images, catalogs, and star formation histories for low-mass galaxies around M31 via an HST survey and archival data analysis. 🔭

My Division is hiring! Do you have an astronomy backround and want to help lead the team designing and building cloud-based research platforms to support NASA missions? Applications are due Feb. 24th! You can also buy back time for personal research! 🔭 recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/...

Very cool new high level science product that maps the southern part of the M31 galaxy with Hubble, with particular emphasis on understandig it's merger history!

Highlight of Dual Anonymous Review of STScI: number of first-time PIs getting time on HST increased from 6% to 30%, with no loss of publication rates! Gender balance of accepted proposals also increasing!

The annual tradition of STScI Townhall at AAS being in a small, standing-room-only room continues at #AAS245. 😞

If you are at #AAS245, be sure to stop by the STScI booth and the MAST table there! Check out our mission tables (HST, JWST, Roman), see our accessible tactile displays and sonification options, talk to MAST staff on to see how to use our modern search tools to enable your research!

Oooo!!....New streamlined query in astroquery to query MAST observations and locate data products on the cloud.

WISP is a "parallel" program on HST, meaning that while HST is pointed at one object or field with the COS instrument, this program uses the WFC3 instrument that's pointed to some other, random area of the sky to essentially do "bonus" science. A very neat program!

Join us for the first #ESA Datalabs Hackathon. Develop #MachineLearning models to study #Exoplanets, for the #ArielTelescope! 📍 Where: European Space Astronomy Centre (ESA-ESAC), near Madrid 🇪🇸 📅 When: 16-17 January 2025 👉 Register by 15 December 2024: www.ariel-datachallenge.space/esa-datalabs...

actual tip for people new to bsky: far more than the other site Alt Text here is very widely used and encouraged on picture and gifs. it's a strong enough norm that many people literally won't quote/like/reply to an image post without it. there's an option you can set that will remind you to add it♥️

Big news at MAST! The first survey from the SDSS Legacy Archive at MAST is now available! MAST+SDSS-V partnership to host a copy of all science-ready SDSS data side-by-side with our space missions. Read more: archive.stsci.edu/contents/new... 🔭

HLSP Update: GLASS-JWST augmented with NIRSpec spectra of 245 unique sources, a spectral template, and a detection catalog of >60 emission lines. These enable an exploration of cosmic evolution from cosmic noon (z~2) to the era of reionization (z> 5). 🔭 archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/glass-j...

HLSP Update: TESS-SPOC calibrated light curves and target pixel files from TESS full frame images for Sector 72 are now available at MAST. This Sector adds 159999 targets derived from 200 second cadence FFIs. archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/tess-spoc 🔭