It’s official, our panel "Revolutionizing Astronomy with Next Generation Big Data" has been accepted to @sxsw.com 2026! Thank you to everyone who supported our work! Panelists: Stella Offner, Paul Torrey, @stephajuneau.bsky.social, & @niall2.bsky.social Learn more schedule.sxsw.com/events/PP116...

In honor of Frida Kahlo, her mesmerizing work, her inspiring strength and her impactful journey 💚 #halloween #Frida #art #painter

The first annual Astro Data Lab user survey closes tomorrow, September 30. If you haven’t already, please fill it out to help shape the future of the Data Lab! 👉 User Survey: datalab.noirlab.edu/usersurvey #astronomy 🔭

Exciting news! Introducing AstroVisBench: A Code Benchmark for Scientific Computing and Visualization in Astronomy! A new benchmark developed by researchers at the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins is testing how well LLMs implement scientific workflows in astronomy and visualize results.

My periodic reminder for #astrosci #astrodon #exoplanets Early Career Researchers to please, please, please have a simple web site with your current email address on it - rationale here: kenworthy.space/advice/

If you have a few mins and have used (or you're thinking about using) the Astro Data Lab, our team would love to hear from you!

Vote to bring our panel “Revolutionizing Astronomy + AI with Next Generation Big Data” to SXSW! Register for a SXSW account & vote by clicking the heart ❤️ - open now til Aug 24! participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx... @stephajuneau.bsky.social @niall2.bsky.social

Yay! Now I'm allowed to reveal that DESI found stronger constraints toward evolving dark energy. It's not quite at the five sigma level yet but may have "major implications for our understanding of the nature and fate of our universe" 🚀🔭

🔭 OK so I'm not allowed to reveal the details yet but we have some exciting press releases coming up in a few hours (watch this space: @desisurvey.bsky.social) including a data release that I've been working on for MONTHS and I'm just here on the verge of tears 😭 #astronomy #data #treasure

🔭 Crowdsourcing here a little: Astro folks! Do you have a favorite online resource/publication for astronomy info to share with the general public? I have a science museum volunteer who's interested in updating the sources they share with folks who want to learn more, and astrobites is my default

We can't make @astropy.org better for you without knowing a bit about what you need and who you are. Tell us! The Astropy Project will make informed decisions with your input. 🔭🧪

Image by Michael Carroll shows some asteroids to scale. We did NOT see the little one coming & it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring >1400 people. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is bigger than the little one, perhaps as large as the football field! JWST 🔭 data next month will help pin down the size.

Excited about this press release on Raga's great work finding elusive intermediate-mass black holes in galaxies! This project started during her PhD. Nice to see it come to fruition & also a glimpse of what the future holds with now much more DESI data in hand 🤩🔭 noirlab.edu/public/news/...

✨January 2025 updates✨ - Added 6 datasets: Palomar Gattini-IR (PGIR) DR1, S-PLUS DR4, DES Y6 Gold, PHAT v3, DeMCELS DR1, SDSS DR12 stellar mass VACs - Added 4 Jupyter notebooks to our collection available to all users and on GitHub Read more in our Newsletter! datalab.noirlab.edu/newsletters/...

Very proud of Isabella's work which she started during a TIMESTEP internship at NOIRLab last summer. She wrote a very nice Jupyter notebook on galaxy quenching featuring the SDSS "cosmic slime" estimates of matter density. Check out her #aas245 iPoster 465.04 (notebook linked in short thread below)

🔎 #AAS245 Scavenger Hunt 🔍 ngVLA antennas are hidden around the conference center! Find one? Take it home, and don’t forget to tag us @thenrao.bsky.social! (@thenrao on all socials) #RadioAstronomy 📡

🧵 1/ For those who missed it, this is the stunning image from Webb's NIRCam showing NGC 604, a star-forming region located around 2.73 Mly away in the Triangulum galaxy (M33). Source and more➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/web... Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI 🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #NASAWebb #JWST

When bacteria was found on an asteroid Ryugu grain in London, the media questioned whether terrestrial contamination was ever avoidable. No contamination has been found at JAXA. But let's take a look at what that takes... brace yourself (my latest on Cosmos 🧪🔭🛰️) 👉 cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/keeping-out-...

Update: Mars came back from the other side 🔭🌝 #mars #occultation

Last minute decided to check the Mars occultation time and rushed outside with new camera lens. Can you spot Mars just before it was occulted by our beautiful Moon? 🌝 🔭

Folks attending #aas245 this week, come by the NOIRLab booth to chat with some of my colleagues and get a live demo! 🔭 @noirlabastro.bsky.social

The gofundme for affected astronomers has been expanded to cover ALL astronomers who have been impacted by this fire. We're at $33k and still going, so if you were on the fence, please think about donating! www.gofundme.com/f/support-na...

We've just released the third band of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey! This is the new #RadioAstronomy reference survey of the sky, south of declination 40 degrees. Here are some typical images... @sunmish.bsky.social @elenchically.bsky.social @cosmicpudding.bsky.social @redqso.bsky.social

The Astronomy feeds are looking for more moderators! 🔭 Please consider signing up if you'd like to help sustain the health of our community here, especially while Bluesky grows. Apply below: We also could benefit from anyone willing to help with development - DM @emily.space if you'd like to!

IC 5068, the Forsaken Nebula Just seems appropriate for the now-ishness of right now Seestar, 3.2h 🔭

Here's today's Sun - 7 November 2024. 🔭

🎉 Today is my birthday! 🎂 If you'd like to help me celebrate, here are some causes that could use your support! 👉 www.astrokatie.com/birthday 👈 Feel free to let me know if you're able to donate!

Yay, I can share this now!! After seeing my paper doodles, an editor reached out to me about creating something for Physics Today. Presenting: a cartoon summary of one of the most impactful papers in modern cosmology! 🧪 https://shorturl.at/wJPRU

Citizen scientists 🧪🔭 Please help us find new black holes with this amazing new app! Download to help identify new transients and to train our system. You will be a coauthor, and top classifiers will even be able to trigger follow up observations with real telescopes! www.dbhc.nl/news/black-h...

Reminder: if you're new to Bluesky but aren't sure how to get set up here, I wrote a guide! 🔭

I have a webpage full of advice for aspiring astrophysicists: www.astrokatie.com/solicited-ad... Feel free to share it with anyone who might find it of use! 🌌🔭

Check out this new mid-infrared image of the Ring Nebula, taking with the MIRI instrument on the JWST! Stunning details visible in the surrounding shells. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, M. Barlow, N. Cox, R. Wesson

🔭🧪 Been missing #GOALSJWST results? Our GOALS team has been working hard on the rest of our #JWST ERS & Cyc1 data; the 1st of our new batch of papers is on arxiv today! Thomas Lai led the work on analyzing NIRSpec data of nearby LIRG NGC7469, focusing on 3.3um PAH... https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15169

EUCLID test images just dropped. Data looks amazing already. Fun science ahead! Look at that 6-spike PSF!

Hi everyone 👋 Just joined today and trying to find the astronomy / space community on here but I'm also interested in visual arts, rock climbing, traveling, coffee, desert landscapes. How are y'all doing?