Toggle navigation
TWText.com
TWText.com
faq
Contact US
Follow US
#Astronomers
Phil Plait
BadAstronomer
I think today we are all that star.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/astronomers-get-a-front-row-seat-to-a-star-getting-torn-apart-by-a-huge-black-hole 2/ If you've ever wondered what happens to a star that gets too close to a gigantic blac
Read more
The Weather Channel India
weatherindia
#Astronomers Discover First Look-Alike of Our #MilkyWay Galaxy in Early Universe https://weather.com/en-IN/india/space/news/2020-08-14-astronomers-discover-first-look-alike-of-our-milky-way-galaxy(: ESA/Hubble/NASA, A. Riess et al) By @Mrig
Read more
Phil Plait
BadAstronomer
Soooooo, about that whole "phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus" thing.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/update-life-above-hell-serious-doubt-cast-on-venus-phosphine-finding 2/ Oh, you remember. Astronomers detected small amounts of p
Read more
JH 🌻
jhbspacex
No dumb at all. It is used to describe what astronomers do to images to make them more comprehensible. Radio astronomers take their shades-of-gray images and convert them to color
Read more
Phil Plait
BadAstronomer
This is potentially very big news: Astronomers have found evidence of what *might* — MIGHT — be life on Venus.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/so-astronomers-may-have-found-evidence-of-life-on-venus 2/ What they found is phosphine, a gas
Read more
ESO Australia
ESO_Australia
1/ Cosmic bursts unveil Universe’s missing matter. Read on If we add up all of the ‘normal’ matter we can see in galaxies, the total comes up short
Read more
Phil Plait
BadAstronomer
So, um, it’s *possible* that some parts of the Universe are expanding faster than others.If that’s true, then some *very* basic assumptions we make about how the Universe behaves need
Read more
Phil Plait
BadAstronomer
For the very first time, astronomers saw a HUGE flash of light after 2 black holes merged… but it came a *month* later. Turns out there was a 3rd black
Read more
astrotweeps: Emily (@emsque)
astrotweeps
The story behind #TheLastStargazers begins with my first observing run, at Kitt Peak with @MassiveStarGuy back in 2004.At the time I was a 19yo physics major and aspiring astronomer but
Read more
Bryan Gaensler 📡🧲
SciBry
If you’re not feeling especially productive right now, you’re not alone. (Code is at https://github.com/bgaensler/arxiv_productivity_covid) Update: In mid-March, astronomers were producing scientific papers at their lowest rate over the last
Read more
Ronniy Joseph
RonniyJoseph
So why is it important to understand how broken @mwatelescope antennas change the way the array sees the sky? Well, not accounting for those broken ones hinders us from unravelling
Read more
Dr. Writing Ghosts #blacklivesmatter 👻🕎✨🧟♀️
broomsticknpen
What is with people being awful to astronomers and astrophysicists today? Exploration of Mars, the ISS, and other experiments HELP US ON EARTH.If y'all took the time to even look
Read more
Blackwell's
blackwellbooks
Welcome to the Blackwell’s Virtual Festival. Today we have the pleasure of hearing from @chrislintott on his fascinating book ‘The Crowd and the Cosmos’@the_zooniverse #BlackwellsVF https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780198842224 @chrislintot
Read more
Jonathan McDowell
planet4589
Historical dive: Many of the nearby faint dwarf stars were discovered by University of Minnesota astronomer Willem Luyten (1899-1994) who published a lot of his data in a long preprint
Read more
Eric Lagadec
EricLagadec
The coming weeks are likely to be important for the future of ground-based astronomy in the face of the threat of satellite constellations. How is it a threat, what are
Read more
👾 Justin Cowart 👾
jccwrt
Ok, happy thread: what's your favorite Solar System object and why? I'll start. My favorite is an object that now only exists in many pieces. Sometime in the first millennium
Read more
‹
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
›