‘Detailed observations’: astro-tribal jargon? an astronomical filler phrase? a cognitive shortcut? a currency of prestige? or just communicative laziness that says very little?

Happy to share the European Space Agency @science.esa.int image release from our recent paper, which finds companions in the inner dust cavities of protoplanetary disks using data from the Gaia space telescope!

Fantastic results by @mvioque.bsky.social et al. This is an idea that we started working on a couple of years back - on time for Gaia DR4! 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

YEMS is hiring a postdoc to work on planet formation, exoplanet detection, high contrast imaging, and/or related topics. 🫸https://aas.org/jobregister/ad/811cf8bb

Planet = 'A celestial spherical object, bound to a star or unbound, that lies on the fundamental planetary plane, within a mass range between 0.02 EU to 13 JU'. Interesting paper addressing taxonomy and definitions regarding planets, beyond the -arguably problematic- IAU definition.

Hot corinos are cool! By Marta De Simone #skao2025

Chilean delegation at #skao2025. With A. Garufi playing double agent for Italy and Chile. I don't think I've been to an astronomy conference with so few Chileans.

Catching up with some posting about #skao2025 Here's the Garufi and Perez duet on Monday. Pebbles, pebbles!

Eleonora Bianchi's take on the chemistry we will be able to explore with SKAO #skao2025

First science talk at #skao2025 by Antonino Garufi about studying planet formation. Centimetre observations are critical to observing the growth of pebbles in planetary disks. 🧪 🔭 📡

New paper on #arXiv! We unveil the dynamic environment around the eruptive young star V960Mon, including signs of a fragmenting spiral arm, a new Class 0 protostar, and powerful outflows, a multi-wavelength look at planet formation in action. Led by Philipp Weber & Núcleo Milenio YEMS

This is why academics and universities need to speak up and push back, now: These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Cool paper by Garufi et al today on arxiv. Expanding our knowledge of Taurus using cm wavelength. Surprisingly quite a large fraction of the emission is from dust and not only free free. 🐂🥏📡 arxiv.org/abs/2501.11686

Finally our copy of the PPVII book arrived in Chile. Gia is already devouring it.

Happy New Year everyone here! Here's to a great 2025 full of blue skies 🔭🌌🐋🍾

"Shocking" results from Adolfo's team. FU Ori keeps delivering amazing discoveries after >80 years of activity. science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...

✍️ Rubin #CommissioningNotes, entry 2️⃣: when you turn it on and it works 🤌 Initial tests with Rubin's test camera, ComCam, showed the telescope was already nearly aligned before even looking at the sky — a testament to decades of work! 🔭🧪 🧵

"Nature is telling us that it’s very easy for her to form planets, and that’s a slap in the face for astronomers because we still don’t know how they form,” Beautiful piece on our latest discovery. eos.org/articles/ast...