it had better make a star cluster when it does 😠

while i_cant_code: print(silly_memes)

so sad. I found out today that the local star formation efficiency is just 8%. that is such an awfully slow rate of converting the ISM (eww, icky) into star clusters. heartbreaking.

Teaching is very serious business. In other news, I made this critical diagram during the class I was teaching today. Might have to put this into my next NSF proposal

Everyone always asks "where" are the open clusters, but never "how" are the open clusters 😤

this is what my favourite dust map would look like if dust didn't exist 😠

wait, what do you mean I need the ISM to make clusters

O stars were made to be yeeted ✨ guest submission by @alexis-space.bsky.social

who else remembers this iconic scene from The Mandalorian? 🙏

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average PhD student

petition to remove dust from the milky way 1 like = 1 dust grain removed

we have gotta get Gaia NIR someday so that we can find them all 😠

do not ask me the forbidden question

do not ask me the forbidden question

the horrors. the horrors that I have made emcee commit on my behalf

NGC 2516 is the best one though

Workflow for 90% of astronomy papers: fit model -> make corner plot -> publish paper -> repeat

Happy Monday, everyone! 🫠

the ghosts of crossmatches past 👻

what even is a Jansky 😭

It's not about how close we are, Hyades. It's about your total integrated flux. It just doesn't compare. 🫤

I was not ready to hear it

here at starcluster.meme, we have your meme requests covered! 🫠

Post a meme made by you

originally I made a serious version of this meme, which I'm non-ironically gonna use in talks now

your hierarchy of needs if you follow this account

New age determination method if my cluster can open a child safety cap it is a young cluster otherwise it is an old cluster in this paper I will use

happy April fool's, this meme account is now about cloud security! open clusters (of servers) are bad. make sure to protect them with a firewall!

Life pro tip: when you're born, try to be at least 500 solar masses, else you risk getting blown away by stellar winds just a few million years later 😔

can we get a round of applause for M35 and NGC 2158? They made it into APOD 😭

poisson? is that some kind of fish?

it's not even a debate 👿

we're all nothing compared to Omega Cen

We propose a new age dating method for open clusters based on whether a cluster is able to open a child safety cap or not, assigning clusters the binary labels 'child' and 'adult'. In this paper we will

Can't believe we're obsessed with classifying my beloved

Can't believe we're obsessed with classifying my beloved

character building 🫠

everyone this week

I can't believe that the dark matter haloes in my favourite galaxy mess with my favourite star clusters

astronomers: 'Sensible Units'? ... who is she? I don't know her

What the molecular clouds giveth, the molecular clouds taketh away

Is it +5 or -5? I always forget 😭

can't believe we only know ~5% of them 😭

The Christmas Tree Cluster has its one month of fame every year