I too have a new model for gravity. It’s a subscription model, and you can get in at the low low price of $1 per g per minute.

The Rocky Worlds program has 500 hours on #JWST to detect atmospheres of rocky exoplanets. PUBLIC CHALLENGE: measure exoplanet eclipse depths from real + synthetic JWST/MIRI obs. Members of top-performing teams will present at @stsci.edu in Nov 2026. 🔭 #astrocode www.stsci.edu/contents/new...

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These are awesome positions where you'll play critical roles in STScI's missions (HST, JWST, Roman)! Definitely apply if interested! Feel free to reach out if you've any questions.

Graduating with a bachelors or masters in astronomy (or related field)? Want to keep your eyes on the skies without a PhD? Opening for YOU at @stsci.edu: Science Support Analyst on Hubble 🔭 recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/...

Local art on show at @stsci.edu in Baltimore. Titles and artists in the alt text:

Gemini North image of Arp 78, also known as NGC 772. Interactions with its companion galaxy NGC 770 (out of frame) left NGC 772's bottom arm elongated and asymmetrical. Credit: International Gemini Observatory, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA Source

New factoid shared at a meeting here at Space Telescope: #JWST's guiding is so stable that it's like flying a laser pointer on a drone in Washington DC, and pointing it perfectly at a dime (like a UK 5p coin) in San Francisco ~4000 km away.

This is stealing votes.

Are you preparing a manuscript on software, tools, or methodologies for the Habitable Worlds Observatory? Submit your paper to this special issue of RASTI on exactly this topic. Deadline Aug 31. 🔭 #astrocode #habitableworlds academic.oup.com/rasti/pages/...

Most excellent opportunity at @stsci.edu: do research, serve the astronomy community, support space telescopes. Apps due June 12. 🔭 #astrocode stsci.slideroom.com#/permalink/p...

Kids, please don't use #AI tools (blindly) to turn STUFF into a paper without understanding STUFF. Else this will happen. Not can, will. And your name will be associated forever. (The 3 other versions are also ... bad.) 🔭 #arXiv #science

Members of the US Congress have signaled that they will again reject the Trump administration’s proposal to slash science spending. But the bill they advanced today still calls for substantial cuts to budgets at agencies such as the NSF. go.nature.com/48AkE33

The paper has been accepted for publication in MNRAS! 🔭 The revised list contains 56 OB associations within 1 kpc, double the historical census! Besides tracing star formation and structure of the local Milky Way, this catalogue will be useful for target/follow-up studies! #stellarastro #galactic

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

Today at 3 p.m. ET, watch the online premiere of the 2026 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony to see the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics awarded to the Muon g–2 Collaborations at @cern.bsky.social, Fermilab, and Brookhaven Lab. ⚛️👏

Well, isn’t this a sight for sore eyes! 😍 Our beloved Hubble appears in this amazing image from one of Vantor's WorldView Legion satellites. It was 36 years ago today that Hubble was launched in the bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Vantor.

Tune in at 4pm Eastern! 🧪🔭 www.nasa.gov/news-release...

The President's Budget Request proposes a 47% cut to NASA Science, a 55% cut to NSF, and a 13% cut to the DOE Office of Science. AAS President Dr. Dara Norman sent a call to action to AAS members via email today. Urge your members of Congress to reject these cuts now! aas.org/reject-2027-...

My team and others at @stsci.edu are working to make this work for you. 🔭 #astrocode

A cartoon by Robert Leighton. See more cartons from this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/JCnwxc

One season's view of the Roman Space Telescope's Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey. Roman will study millions of stars, and how they vary in time. It will reveal tens of thousands of planets throughout the Milky Way, including habitable rocky planets. Plus many unknown unknowns! 🔭🧪🤞 #stellarastro

Let’s toast those astronauts. Then let’s wake up tomorrow and remind every American of what we all stand to lose to this regime. 🧪🔭

The Center for Computational Astrophysics @flatironinstitute.org is hiring a new Research Software Engineer to work on @astropy.org and to support the software and computing efforts within the CCA. Apply by May 22! apply.interfolio.com/184639 🔭 🧪 ☄️

Send strength to all of your NASA and federal contractor friends, and send letters to your representatives. 🧪🔭 Assume Congress won't have our back. They need to hear from us.

Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

Posted this and a friend texted to say they were on the fence about going and this tipped them into going. Let your friends know you're going! Invite them along! They're mad too and doing something always feels better than doing nothing. We're in this together. ❤️👊

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Sweet deep dive from Prajwal Niraula, @benrackham.bsky.social et al. on a star near and dear to my heart. #stellarastro 🔭 Evidence from HST, Kepler, TESS, and ground-based spectroscopy all agree: 2024 #JWST observations HAT-P-11 were taken near activity minimum. arxiv.org/abs/2603.24585

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

Save the date for the Rocky Worlds DDT Data Challenge and Workshop. Get the details: ow.ly/I0oM50YwrEq

For hunters of rocky worlds: save the date! 🔭 #astrocode We're preparing a Data Challenge modeled after the 2015 Spitzer Exoplanet Data Challenge, this time with MIRI observations from the Rocky Worlds DDT program.

Have you noticed the brimming graveyard of proposals I’ve left in my wake? Some people say it gets easier to accept the low odds, but I’ve never felt that way. 🔭

Good to remember. Everyone who writes proposals gets 5th quintile rankings. sometimes there are lessons to learn for sure, but there’s a huge randomness factor.

Melba registers her disappointment with the lack of pie today.

In celebration of pi day, let us be constantly irrational.

Alright JWST friends, deep breaths before checking your inbox. 🔭

I'm super excited to share a HUGE paper out from Young Worlds Lab team member Andy Boyle. I present for you, ~900,000 rotation periods from TESS! 🤯🔭🧪⭐ #exoplanets #stellarrotation arxiv.org/abs/2603.05586

Join @stsci.edu as a software engineer, working on interactive data analysis and visualization tools for astronomers. 🔭 #astrocode Apps due March 18, 2026. recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/...

Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL/Caltech) and I summarize the historical context that has led us to the Habitable Worlds Observatory. We always build upon the work of many. HWO is no exception. We hope you find this short paper enlightening. arxiv.org/abs/2602.14823

It's Dr. Kathryn Jones' final astro paper! 🧪🔭 Kathryn curated a set of geometric albedos for hot Jupiters from CoRoT, Kepler, CHEOPS (CKC; blue histogram) and TESS (orange histogram), and found that the CKC and TESS albedo distributions are indistinguishable. arxiv.org/abs/2603.02409

Elsie’s the best in the game. arxiv.org/abs/2602.19687 🔭 #astrocode

This is yet another example where astronomers don't realise how good we have it. I do actually have a GS account, but the profile is private, and I haven't looked at it for many years. Everything we do is via NASA ADS, which is - and has always been - vastly superior to anything Google offered. 🔭

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work: “Those parameters are degenerate too.”

Another job was just posted, at the senior software engineer level at @stsci.edu: 🔭 #astrocode recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/...

Entry level software engineer position at @stsci.edu, application deadline Feb 28: 🧪🔭 #astrocode recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/...

Never imagined conservatives would become yimbys and the housing project would be concentration camps. never again(?) 🎁 gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

The only fun classes I took were: - ethnomusicology - West African drumming

New job opportunity at @stsci.edu: Senior Astronomical Data Scientist for data analysis tools, working closely with my team and me. This role is very similar to mine. If you have questions, I'm happy to answer them. 🧪🔭

This is Alex Pretti. This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE. #ScientistsAgainstICE