@nhuntwalker.bsky.social has good threads on why we are where we are. This discussion with Dr. Lily Mason gets at how folks will harm themselves if it means an out group gets less. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

The discovery of the first #exoplanets www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

<looks over at bulleted outline of JWST proposal, sighs>

Did you know that white dwarfs were the coolest stars? I’m totally unbiased here 😌

Busy today planning my event next Saturday, 9/27/2025, 4:00pm at An Unlikely Story bookstore, 111 South St. Plainville, MA. 02762. We're going to crash things together and blow stuff up in outer space!!! Get tickets here! #family #fun anunlikelystory.indiecommerce.com/kuchner

Tom Homan, who was later named Trump’s border czar, was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover F.B.I. investigation. DOJ closed the file. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Excited to share the 1st High-Level Science Product release from the Rocky Words DDT! Each RWDDT eclipse will result in HLSPs which you can use for preliminary science investigations or as a starting point for your own reduction/fit. Awesome work by Tyler Baines, Achrène Dyrek, and the RWDDT CIT 🪐🔭

New HLSP: First results from the Rocky Worlds DDT program are now available at MAST! This release includes calibrated light curves, model fits, preliminary eclipse depth estimation, and auxiliary data for GJ 3929 b. archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/rocky-w... #HLSP #RockyWorlds #JWST #HST #Exoplanets #MAST 🔭

Reading this I do get a feel for how thoroughly cooked we are.

Another reshare of this as it’s great + you can follow along here on BlueSky too! @abiralsahlani.bsky.social 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

🚨Last chance to apply to the ESA Research #Fellowships in Space Science! The 2025 call is open until 22 September. Don't miss the chance to carry out your independent research at ESA, joining top experts in the field. Check conditions here 👉 www.cosmos.esa.int/web/space-sc... 🔭 🧪☄️

On the 🔭🧪 postdoc job market? Excited about science with Rubin and big surveys? Come join us at DiRAC. I’m so excited that we’re able to offer a few of these Fellowship positions this year! Please share, LMK if you have Q’s! aas.org/jobregister/...

#AAS247 We’re thrilled to welcome Tonima Tasnim Ananna to the stage in Phoenix, AZ! Ananna’s research applies machine learning to large surveys to uncover the demographics and growth of supermassive black holes across the Universe. Don't miss out, register today: aas.org/meetings/aas... 🔭

Paper about this observation by Joel Kastner et al. "... We propose that interactions between the nebular progenitor star and a close companion are responsible for the ejection of NGC 6537's molecular torus, ..." arxiv.org/abs/2509.11042

🐦 Fly through a 3D map of stellar nurseries ✨ Scientists have created the most accurate 3D map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from #ESAGaia. The map extends to a distance of 4000 light-years from us, with the Sun at the centre 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪

Don’t forget to apply! 🚀🔭

one week left to grab a print! 🔭

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

The jellyfish #galaxy MACSJ0451-JFG1 in a galaxy cluster with #JWST NIRCam. 🔭 The galaxy is experiencing ram-pressure stripping. It moves trough the intracluster medium and is stripped of gas, leaving tails that form stars. My image processing from today: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MA...

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

Three teens were critically wounded Wednesday in a shooting at a high school in the foothills of suburban Denver, including the suspected shooter, authorities say.

AAS Social Media Task Force The AAS is seeking members for a social media task force to strategically increase the Society's social media presence, including communicating the value of astronomy & science funding to the broader public and promoting advocacy actions. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🔭

lmao. Like every colonist before him, Loeb loves to slap his name on things that will make him appear 'great' in the eyes of history. Also, and this is rather funny, I think his co-authors are not in astronomy lololol Eldadi is a Dr in Psychology Tenenbaum is a Prof. in Sports Psychology 💀💀💀

We're offering approximately 5-7 #Fellowships in Space Science this year, joining the pool of about 25 Research Fellows currently hosted in our Directorate of Science. Learn how you could join us here 👉 www.cosmos.esa.int/web/space-sc... 🔭 🧪☄️

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

For the last two years, I've been paying for the Astronomy feeds hosting myself. It has been a privilege to grow our community here, but I also shouldn't keep doing it for free 😅 That's why I'm delighted to announce that we now have a donations page on Open Collective! 🔭☄️ #astrophotography

I got many of my Baltimore coworkers to give their own "player intros" in honor of the Baltimore Ravens playing Sunday Night Football! #STScI #RavensFlock

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Spectacular new JWST images 😍🔭

The ESA Research #Fellowships in Space Science are open until 22 September 2025! Applicants are invited to prepare an independent research proposal of a project based on their interests and expertise. Details 👉 www.cosmos.esa.int/web/space-sc... 🔭 🧪☄️

Super excited that these results are finally out! This is the highest resolution ALMA image of Fomalhaut ever, and we can learn new things about the structure of the disk and the planet that is likely shaping it. Press release here: public.nrao.edu/news/neighbo...

Young star cluster Westerlund 2 with #JWST MIRI. 🔭 Probably 4+ hours of work to put this image together. My image processing from today: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:We...

The Rocky Worlds DDT has published our final target list. Join us for an information session on September 15 to learn more about the 9 targeted planets and the goals of the program. 🔭 #exoplanets

Democratic lawmakers and more than a thousand current and former HHS staff say Kennedy's actions are endangering America's health. Kennedy says he came to clean house and he's delivering.

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

Apply to the ESA Research #Fellowships in Space Science and come work with us at one of three locations: 📍ESAC near Madrid, Spain 📍ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands 📍The ESA office at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, USA Details 👉 www.cosmos.esa.int/web/space-sc... 🔭 🧪☄️

NASA to needlessly kill Juno mission to Jupiter this month NASA's Juno mission has been scouting out Jupiter and its icy moons since 2016. The next mission won't arrive until 2030. So why kill Juno when we're still learning so much from it? bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #nasa #juno

More of this.

Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”

Some very beautiful 3D simulations of turbulence in protoplanetary discs on today's arXiv ! ☄️ arxiv.org/abs/2508.20839

Interested in a 3-year research opportunity with @esa.int ? Our Space Science Fellowship is OPEN for applications for our 2025 recruitment round. Application deadline is 22 September + more details here 🔭: www.cosmos.esa.int/web/space-sc...

The new Webb/ALMA image of the Butterfly Nebula looks someone with astigmatism and a migraine is driving drunk on a rainy night without their glasses. 🤪

She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.

The Giacconi Fellowship is open for applications at @stsci.edu ! Apply and /or please share with your colleagues. 🔭

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 🔭 🧪

Brief 🧵, as someone who has studied mass shootings for 13 years: -gender does not cause them -SSRIs, no -mental illness, no -internet/gaming, no Above can be compounding factors—but motive is complex, often very. The most fundamental combo: suicidality + rage + isolation + easy access to guns

*air guitar riff in astronomer*

The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers say he wants to seek asylum in the United States.