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SpaceX Starlink satellites photobombed my northern lights photos in Iceland!

#space #science #spacex #astrodon #womeninstem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hTnctQLCIk


Happy Halloween 🎃

Here are the pumpkins I carved this year: An active red dwarf star and its gas giant planet. I call it an exo-pumpkin.

#pumpkin #JackOLantern #halloween #Astrodon #astronomy


This plot shows the time it takes to integrate the Solar System for 5 billion years. In 1950 it would have taken over a million years. Today it takes 1 day. The bottom right point is for our WHFast512 integrator which uses #AVX512 instructions: https://astro.theoj.org/article/84547-whfast512-a-symplectic-n-body-integrator-for-planetary-systems-optimized-with-avx512-instructions

Plot made with data from Sam Hadden: http://shadden.github.io/nbody_history/.

#astrodon #HPC


🚨BIG SCIENCE NEWS 🚨

And our results (along with our international colleagues) have dropped!

Our team (and others) have started to see the strongest evidence as yet of the stochastic gravitational wave background - ripples in space-time cause by ALL the supermassive black holes in the history of the Universe colliding!

We use pulsars to study these riplles and we needed almost 20 years of data to even get the first hints! It's the long game!

I'm a co-author on the Aussie papers (as part of my work) but I also wrote about it here in my latest feature article on #SpaceAustralia

This is why I have been going on about pulsars for a few weeks now - this was coming!

Check it out here: https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/australian-scientists-help-uncover-cosmic-gravitational-rumblings

📸 Shanika Galaudage

#Astrodon #Astrophysics #RadioAstronomy #GravitationalWaves #Science #Pulsars


Hello LIGO Hanford! Both LIGO observatories are now locked and observing! #O4IsHere #Astrodon


Using the "Our Galaxy" app, we show where the globular cluster NGC 6355 is located in our galaxy. The cluster is deeply embedded in the galactic bulge and is heavily obscured from our point of view. We turn on a wire frame rendering of the bulge so the cluster can be better seen.

The free "Our Galaxy" app can be found at https://www.otherwise.com.

https://youtu.be/hGBZmmDJa_c

#astronomy, #galaxy, #astrodon, #APOD


So astronomy mastodon is using the hashtag #astrodon. What do you think, sauropods.win, should we take it back? 😂


Time for another #introduction for the newcomers 😀 I'm an astronomer and science communicator at the European Southern Observatory.

In my previous life I used to study how galaxies form and evolve. I also helped my peers get their data as a support astronomer at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. I now work full time as Media Officer at ESO's HQ in Germany.

I'm also an avid astrophotographer! Below is a pic of my previous "office" in Chile. 🤩

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography

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