🔭 Comet R3 PanSTARRS Behind Satellite Trails Image Credit & Copyright: Uli Fehr ap260427

Take a break from <waves vaguely> all this and let your brain soak up the amazingness of the Sombrero Galaxy, the stunning result of several cosmic collisions. [Also in this issue: will Andromeda really collide with us? The chance just went up.] badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-specta... 🔭 🧪

For all my friends who are into slow TV and may not know this: Sweden does a live broadcast of the annual moose migration every spring, kinda how we Americans broadcast eagles nesting every year. It is definitely a spring slow-TV feel-good fix. www.svtplay.se/den-stora-al...

In 2016, a bunch of us were told that we were just being dramatic, we didn't need to be upset, there were checks and balances, we didn't need to worry and that things could not possibly get as bad as we imagined because no one would ever let that happen. Anyways,

Reviewer 1 Excellent! No apparent weaknesses; this proposal describes an innovative project with important implications. 🎉🥳 It's clichéd what reviewer 2 said next 😮‍💨😥😭

Want to know when it becomes more economical to play the lottery than attempt a federal grant? arxiv.org/abs/2603.29964

JWST Cycle 5 results are out. 2,855 proposals. 100,000+ hours requested. 8,000 hours available. 254 approved. That's a 11:1 oversubscription rate. Months of work. Hundreds of scientists. Rejected. When will we realize this is unsustainable?

🚨 #JWST Cycle 5 notification emails are starting to go out.

In our investigations of the heart of the Milky Way, Elena and I make the first estimate of the CO-to-H₂ conversion factor in the central 1 pc (3 light years) of our galaxy, just next door to the supermassive black hole. The paper has been accepted and is available here: arxiv.org/abs/2511.16720

I've been a long time fan of CBC Quirks and Quarks since my first postdoc in Canada, and I'm thrilled to have my work featured #CBCquirks! You can listen here to my colleague Elena talk about finding the wind at the center of our galaxy here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

This is a great idea! 🧪 laist.com/news/educati...

A star's birth announcement 👶🎉 A young star that is still forming toward the edge of our Milky Way galaxy is sending out a celebratory looking firework 🎆 The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope caught the message in infrared 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪 1/2

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According to my 2 year old, I get paid in puppies for going to work.

🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost! Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%). "Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov. ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.

As an actual Astronomer… pretty please yes this?

The visualization of the asteroids in our solar system blew me away. It is one of the most impressive I've seen.

A new view of two old friends 🤩 Feast your eyes upon NSF–DOE Rubin's view of the Trifid & Lagoon Nebulae! This image shows what makes Rubin unique: its wide field of view, & speed that allows it to take lots of big images quickly. 🔭🧪 rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look/trifid-lagoon

#ICYMI Astronomers have created a masterpiece: an ultra-detailed image revealing previously unseen features in the Sculptor Galaxy. Taken with our VLT, it's a galaxy-wide snapshot of the lives of stars in Sculptor. Check the video below 👇 Full story: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2510/ 🔭 🧪

It's true what Georgia O'keeffe said about New Mexico. Once you've been there. It itches you for the rest of your life.

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The scientific career path was already precarious prior to recent budget reductions. These cuts now will end the careers of many early-career scientists like myself. www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...

🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️ NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page. It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad. ❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards. The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p... 1/8... 🧵

The Chicago Pope memes are sooooo good.

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... It's hard for me to believe that I live in a world where science is being undermined and devalued.

News of NSF cuts and freezes in an already struggling environment certainly feels like early career scientists are being driven to extinction. The impact on research and innovation is profound. This is extremely awful.

Trump team’s science cuts threaten tenure hopes for early-career academics

The ngVLA prototype. Got to see it fairly close up. I really hope this gets fully funded, for multiple reasons.

Fingers crossed! The presubmission inquiry was successful. Here goes a second attempt at publishing in Nature.

⏰ Have you set your alarm for 12:00 CET / 11:00 GMT today? Be ready to be amazed at the latest treasures uncovered by #ESAEuclid, our #DarkUniverse detective 🕵️ Watch this space for details & this link for a video premiere: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXCB... 🔭🧪 #astrosci

The aurora in Kiruna, Sweden this evening has been phenomenal!

Hello, world! 🌍 I'm Mark Gorski, an astronomer exploring the secrets of galaxy evolution at the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) at Northwestern University.