Most stars form in clusters! 🔭🧪☄️ #galactic In a new paper led by @alexis-space.bsky.social, we show that >80% of stars in the local Milky Way formed in clusters. This is *much* higher than other recent estimates (~15%), and supports more traditional 'clustered' models of star formation!

Star formation primarily takes place within compact clusters in the local Milky Way! 🌌 #galactic #stellarastro We've shown this combining the results from two recent, Gaia-based catalogues: the open clusters census from @emily.space and my census of OB stars within 1 kpc!

Kimberly Emig talking about radio recombination lines with the SKA and how to observe them in galaxies through cosmic time! Recent detection of PKS 1830-211 at z=0.89 with MeerKAT and combined with HI & OH can say a lot of gas properties and what kind of a star forming galaxy it is. #skao2025 🔭📡

Access to radio frequencies enables key science from weather prediction to astronomy. A new @nationalacademies.org report discusses ways to protect scientific uses of the radio spectrum in advance of the World Radiocommunication Conference in 2027. www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/vie...

Don't miss your chance! We're creating a giant 3200-megapixel group photo in the shape of our huge LSST Camera's focal plane, and it won't be complete without you! 🔭 🧪 For more details and to submit your selfie🤳: rubinobservatory.org/explore/acti...

Congratulations to the #NRAO 2025 Jansky Fellowship awardees!! Three new outstanding early career postdoctoral fellows will be joining NRAO later in the year, and we can't wait to start working with them! Congratulations all! @thenrao.bsky.social public.nrao.edu/news/nsf-nra...

The American Astronomical Society — the largest organization of professional astronomers in the country — has put out a statment about Trump's proposed fatal cuts to NASA science. aas.org/press/aas-st...

Radio Recombination lines have now been detected from proplyds! the line emission is mainly coming from an (externally) ionized cloud surface layer that is ~0.01 AU wide, the thickness of the ionization front 😲 great work, Ryan!! public.nrao.edu/news/alma-de... #exoplanets #galactic #astrosci

The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS) data release 3: Cold atomic gas associated with the Milky Way https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.00097 N. Gupta et al.

The third MALS data release, consisting of Galactic HI 21-cm spectra of about 20,000 radio sources is now public! It represents the largest Galactic HI absorption line catalog to date. DR: mals.iucaa.in/release/mals... paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.00097 #radioastronomy

First images from the Square Kilometre Array Low Frequency (SKA-Low)! Taken with only 1,024 of the planned 131,072 antennas, and it's already looking good :) #RadioAstronomy

Discovery of Radio Recombination Lines from Proplyds in the Orion Nebula Cluster https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.02979 Ryan D. Boyden, Kimberly L. Emig, Nicholas P. Ballering, Charles J. Law, Thomas J. Haworth, Jonathan C. Tan, L. Ilsedore Cleeves, Zhi-Yun Li.

HAPPENING LIVE NOW! Join us on YouTube to witness the next step of the ngVLA prototype construction: the dish being lifted onto its pedestal! 📡🏗️ Live stream starts at 8 AM MT (10 AM EST); dish expected to be in place by 10 AM MT (12 PM EST). 🔗 youtube.com/@thenrao #RadioAstronomy #Astronomy

JWST Observations of Starbursts: Relations between PAH features and CO clouds in the starburst galaxy M 82 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.14893 V. Villanueva et al

Discover the story behind the SKA in a new book "The Square Kilometre Array: A Science Mega-Project in the Making, 1990-2012". Written by Richard Schilizzi & colleagues, it chronicles the early days of this global collaboration. The PDF is free to download link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Three Square Kilometre Array Commissioning Scientist jobs available to work at the SKA-Low Science Operations Centre in Perth, Western Australia. recruitment.skao.int/vacancy/skal... Deadline February 23rd. Contact George Heald (@georgeheald.bsky.social) for more information. #RadioAstronomy

Calling all undergrad and graduate students looking for summer research opportunities! Applications are now open for the 2025 summer student program at the NSF NRAO/GBO. #AAS245 🚨 Deadline February 1 🚨 science.nrao.edu/opportunitie...

ngVLA prototype antenna construction is nearly complete! We had some snow in New Mexico recently, but the finishing touches should be happening very soon. 📡❄️ 📸 Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/P. Bolton #AAS245 #RadioAstronomy

The NSF NRAO and NSF GBO are in National Harbor for #AAS245! Here's what's on our schedule for today: 🔗 science.nrao.edu/science/meet...

The NRAO Call for Proposals for semester 2025B for the VLA, GBT, VLBA, HSA and GMVA is out. The deadline is Wednesday, 29 January 2025, at 17:00 EST (22:00 UTC). #radioastronomy science.nrao.edu/observing/ca...

The Arp 240 Galaxy Merger: A Detailed Look at the Molecular Kennicutt-Schmidt Star Formation Law on Sub-kpc Scales https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.07985 Alejandro Saravia et al

Germany and India are now official members of #SKAO! 🎉 #radioastronomy Read more: www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/announcement... www.skao.int/en/news/590/...

For anyone looking for astro postdoc positions this year: the NHFP application feedback program is back! We have a group of current/former postdoc fellows volunteering to provide unofficial feedback to your application material on a best-effort basis. Applicant sign-up: forms.gle/SrfZVNjniZQP... 🔭

Starting Cycle 11 of #ALMA today 📡 🤩 #astronomy

📣*Two* more postdoc fellowships are being offered at the #NRAO / #UVA in Charlottesville as part of the CosmicAI Institute! CosmicAI is an exciting new initiative for folks interested in calibration, imaging, and analysis of high-dimensional data jobs.jobvite.com/nrao/job/oAj... #radioastronomy 🔭📡

Come join us at @astronnl.bsky.social as a Bell Burnell Fellow! We are searching for the next leaders in radio astronomy, whether that is scientific or technical (or both!). Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. aas.org/jobregister/...

Hello, Bluesky! Join me and fellow Star Trek ladies on October 3rd for a virtual event, Women of Star Trek for Kamala! We are supporting the Harris/Walz campaign as we look toward a brighter future - one that we need to start building today at the ballot box. 🗳️ #HarrisWalz2024 #Kamala2024

Opening for an ngVLA Scientist position at the #NRAO !🚨application deadline of Nov 1 jobs.jobvite.com/nrao/job/oJw... #radioastronomy

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The Astronomy feeds now include 11 (!!!) brand new specific subfeeds! 🔭 The subfeeds try to cover every part of astronomy research with at least one feed. All subfeeds automatically crosspost to the main Astronomy feed, too! Here's a thread with links to all of them ⬇️

📡 The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey team has released radio continuum images and a catalog of 971,980 radio sources from 1-1.7 GHz observations. This is the largest catalog of radio sources from a MeerKAT survey to date, and one of only a handful of radio catalogs with a million+ sources. #astro

Two dazzling views of M82! Hubble captures the entire starburst galaxy, from its blue disk to its red hydrogen plumes. #NASAWebb takes a closer look at M82’s core, resolving individual stars and tracing the galactic wind: bit.ly/3S0qZfK 🔭 🧪

🔭 🧪 The James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists get to the heart of star formation! Astronomers used Webb to image a section of the starburst galaxy M82. Unexpectedly, it revealed the galactic wind’s fine structure via emission from very small dust grains: webbtelescope.pub/3vIFT27

EXCITING NEWS! The first SKA-low antennas are being installed today in Australia! Here's a feature article by @cosmicrami.bsky.social (2021) that outlines the road that has led to the development of the world's largest radio telescope: www.spaceaustralia.com/index.php/fe... 📸 M. Goh/ICRAR/Curtin