please like this we need to free those poor little fellas 🫶

your email finds me in the thermally unstable regime between WNM and CNM

always classic

"comparison is the thief of joy" tell yourself that BEFORE you start comparing my beautiful hubble telescope to your new gen fancy smancy telescope again. Think about how that would make her feel. She has been the greatest for the longest of time and we owe her the world

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

it is a hint from the universe to go outside and sit in the sun

use your priors people ☝️

Today we say goodbye to ESA’s Milky Way-mapper Gaia! The Gaia spacecraft has completed its sky-scanning and will be switched off this morning.

no way pete hegseth just texted me the origin of the imf

why dont you go observe the way shear rips apart unbound groupings of stars and maybe then you'll calm down

"Etendue, Brute?" — Julius Caesar, spectrograph builder

doomscrolling on the AAS job registry

being alive is great because there are so many colours you can try out in matplotlib. but then there is also the horrors

unmatched astrometrizz 💥💕send this to your boo

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

tending to my realm (cleaning up my github)

the astro community posting their research here on bluesky is kinda like hanging assignments you are proud of on the fridge but virtual

and then those magnetic field enjoyers turn around and create galactic maps consisting of 18 differently oriented strokes only they can read

left my son who is a 40 solar mass O type star sitting in the car while I was getting milk, came back after 20 Myr but could not find my son, has anyone seen my son?

everyone this week

The end of Gaia observations will be a sad day, but I think it's also something worth celebrating, as Gaia has been an incredibly successful mission. And best of all, the data is completely open and free for anyone to access - it's a monumental triumph of open science. 🔭

Think twice before gifting someone an M dwarf this holiday season

how it feels to crossmatch gaia with apogee sources and retrieve all of them

this is where I post from btw

If Gaia has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Gaia has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Gaia has only one fan then that is me. If Gaia has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Gaia, then I am against the world.

yknow cows used to be spherical. nowadays they are elongated, filamentary. And sometimes they don't even collapse anymore. true astrophysics is dead.

for a small fee i will attend your rival’s conference talk and have more of a comment than a question about magnetic fields

I just know that they have something to do with transitions

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Astronomer: In this work, we propose HoFITCh (HOw Full Is That Cup), a Bayesian model for sampling the fullness of cups from imaging data and prior beliefs. We sample the posterior of our model, and find that the cup is 50±2% full.

heard astronomers were on here so ig ill join, meme as entrance fee

cluster dynamics analysis using few high precision radial velocities from spectroscopic surveys vs using gaia radial velocities

roses are red, stellar metallicities are fun, life is a straw and I am a capri sun

But at least I can mention machine learning in the abstract of the paper so it is still a win 🔭

happy pride month remember the less straight a star moves the better the parallaxes 👆

A funny slide by Marc Audard: Gaia data costs just €0.25 per star ✨🔭

keeping a picture of gaia in my wallet like she is my husband who went to war #🔭

Another truly joyous addition to April's astro-literature. I always felt that affinity between the red giant branch and farfalle. I disagree with the authors use of Lasagne for the main sequence though - those multi pasta layers should have been reserved for the Asymptotic Giant Branch. 🔭

Moon Armor Index xkcd.com/2908

The spacecraft urge tp get launched into space with limited fuel and slowly succumbing to a lonely, dark, eternal rest

follow @starcluster.meme to keep your field star contamination minimal (source: trust me bro)