The Virtual Astronomy Software Talk series welcomes new organizers. You can learn more about VAST on our website: vast-seminars.github.io. Please apply by Oct 15 : tinyurl.com/VASTorgs #astronomy #software

🔭 Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University), T. Temim (Princeton University), I. De Looze (University of Gent) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25011...

The amazing @esa.int Gaia telescope is taking its last measurements today Gaia has had a tremendous impact on astronomy. Without the easy to access (and use) data releases, a lot of the work I do would be impossible Thank you, Gaia and team! Can't wait for the future data releases! 🔭🧪

The Pasadena street we lived on till just a few months ago is under evacuation. Our neighbors have left with pets. This was unfathomable a few years ago. We thought being 5 mi from foothills meant it has to be an insane wildfire far in the future of climate change for our area to evac. #Eatonfire

Haven't had the opportunity to image the sky for a while due to cloud and the festive period. I'm getting withdrawal symptoms! This image of the Tadpoles Nebula is from the end of last year. It's processed using a false Hubble style palette. #astrophotography 🔭

The new season of Queer Eye is so heartwarming and healing especially after an year of go-go-go

The geometry of this "Poincaré disk" inspired M.C. Escher's "Circle Limit" series of drawings. In this case the rulers are the fish-lengths. See how they get small as you approach the edge? (21/n) Image: M.C. Escher, "Circle Limit III"

57 years ago today, Jocelyn Bell detected a series of strange, repeating radio signals. Her finding led to the discovery of pulsars...and inspired the iconic cover of Joy Division's first album. 🧪 www.cam.ac.uk/stories/jour...

Next week over 250 astronomers gather in Boston to celebrate 25 years of NASA's flagship X-ray mission Chandra. Planning this event over the last year as the SOC and LOC lead has been such a tremendous learning opportunity and a privilege. Fingers crossed it all goes well 🤞 #chandra #nasamission

The American Astronomical Society is delighted to announce that the Astropy Project, and all contributors to it, will receive the 2025 Berkeley Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy. Astropy will deliver the honorary closing Plenary of #AAS245. PRESS RELEASE: aas.org/press/astrop...

Sending virtual hugs and strength to JPL colleagues experiencing a very difficult day today. arstechnica.com/space/2024/1... #NASA

Opening BlueSky today to all the familiar names from the other place and a beautifully normal feed ❤️ #welcome

We are back!!

48 hrs left to submit your abstracts for the 25 years of Science with Chandra Symposium. cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/cdo/symposiu... #astronomy #X-rays #ChandraX-ray #25yrsChandra

The abstract submission deadline for the 25 years of Science with Chandra Symposium is coming up on Sep 5th! Come join us at the meeting. cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/cdo/symposiu...

A gorgeous painting depicting Chandra + JWST observations of Crab nebula.

Crab Nebula 🦀 A supernova remnant with a pulsar (rapidly rotating neutron star) formed by the collapsed core of a dying massive star. JWST (infrared) 🤝 Chandra (x-ray) 📸: NASA/CXC/SAO/JPMajor

This is such a wonderful news for the X-ray community! From Athena's social: "ESA's Programme Committee endorsed a rescoped version of the Athena mission. The SPC has recognized that NewAthena will transform our knowledge in almost every corner of modern astrophysics" bit.ly/3srANG1

If you are an astronomer who is interested in Alert Brokers, please join us for a VAST session next week.

interested in computational science for grad school? Apply for one of the Stony Brook Institute for Advanced Science graduate fellowships: iacs.stonybrook.edu/opportunitie... I'm happy to chat with anyone interested in computational astrophysics #astro

Some, as they say, personal news. Relevant for astronomers 🔭 and anyone who does citizen science with Zooniverse. 🧪

First post here! Check out this feature by AAS Nova on my first first-author paper from my master project to know more about ultra-stripped supernovae and how they are related to binary neutron star mergers 👀 https://aasnova.org/2023/08/09/lost-gravitational-wave-source-gained-sn2019wxt/

Whoaa! AAS Nova featured our recent discovery of a super cool ultra-stripped supernova found during follow-up of a LIGO event. The lead author is Hinna Shivkumar. It was so much fun to help her through her first paper! https://aasnova.org/2023/08/09/lost-gravitational-wave-source-gained-sn2019wxt/

New #astroplan v0.9 just released. Astroplan is the #astropy affiliated package for planning astronomical observations*. Code: https://github.com/astropy/astroplan Docs: https://astroplan.readthedocs.io/en/v0.9/ *You know what they say though: astroplans, and cloud laughs.

What a cool JWST discovery!

So very cool that my first repost here is about Jocelyn Bell Burnell who discovered the first pulsar!