Starlight versus stardust: actually not how your holiday carbon and oxygen got delivered to Earth. New research from Chalmers, @eso.org:s VLT and sparkly red AGB star #RDoradus www.chalmers.se/en/current/n...

A note on learning physics ⚛️ for starting PhD students: At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same

Finns det astronomikunniga som är med i #nattvandring rörelsen? Här kan finnas win-win möjligheter både för vetenskapligt kapital och trygghetsskapande. Gräv för @popularastronomi.se kanske? (Tack för inspiration @vetenskapoallm.bsky.social och deras rapporten från Folk och forsking)

An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪

A nice summary by @e-astronomer.bsky.social on the state of cosmology 🔭🧪. My take-aways: 1. Maybe the Universe isn’t designed to make all its secrets accessible to astronomers. 2. We always underestimate systematic errors, so shouldn’t get hung up on discrepancies. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Science diplomacy is needed more now than at any time in history, given the scale of challenges the world faces. Research is often described as a form of ‘soft power’ diplomacy… The first step towards protecting science diplomacy must be to protect science itself. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

☄️ 🔭 The impact probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 has dropped from 2.8% to 0.16%. Thanks to new observations, Earth is now at the edge of our shrinking ‘uncertainty window.’ If this trend continues, the risk may soon reach 0%.

🧪🔭📡 #RadioAstronomy

Here's a blog post (yes, I am still occasionally blogging) on viewing the recent solar eclipse and why you should use a disco ball for your next eclipse outreach event. visiblesuns.blogspot.com/2023/10/sola...