#Astronomers

Sunny Vagnozzi

SunnyVagnozzi

A thread on #authorship and author ordering. A few weeks ago an external reviewer for an academic job application wrote in their review that I did not have enough 1st-author

Dr. Phil Metzger

DrPhiltill

Interestingly, that was not the first article where science journalist Martha G. Morrow mentioned the public's idea of a "planet". In 1943, there was a claimed discovery of an exoplanet

SpaceAustralia.com

SpaceAusDotCom

Catch the exciting FRB news overnight? "We've used FRBs to weigh all the matter in the Universe, & we found the half that was missing!"Australian-led research team uses @CSIRO_ATNF ASKAP

Chris Mihos

ChrisMihos

OK, so here's a thread about astronomy, constellations, magnitudes, parsecs, Pop I and II stars, and all these crazy units and lingo we use as astronomers. Because I am *constantly*

mars_stu

mars_stu

So, this morning (5am local time) I went out to do some astrophotography, basically testing for myself how visible the Starlink satellites are in the sky to *anyone*, not just

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

Finding the center of the solar system is a journey involving superdense stars that spin faster than a kitchen blender blade, colossal black holes eating other, and literal ripples warping

☄Ashley🔭Lindalía☄

That_Astro_Chic

Hello to my new followers!!! My name is Ashley. I'm a astrochemist, planetary scientist, and science communicator. Let me tell you a little bit about me. I received my BS

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

The remains of an incredibly ancient stellar city have been found circling the Milky Way. My pitch to name it “R’lyeh” was voted down.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-phoenix-star-stream-remnant-of-a-long-dead-stellar-city 2/ The Mil

Shyam Bharadwaj

Herran_Ukkonen

The Principles of Differential Calculus were stated much earlier in India by Hindu Mathematicians in SanskritMañjula(932 CE) in his work Laghumānasa states the Differential Formula of the Sine Function in

Niall Deacon

nialldeacon

Today is the 120th anniversary of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin’s birth. She took theoretical developments in the new science of quantum mechanics and used them to explain the spectra of stars and

willismonroe

willismonroe

Why is the 13th zodiac sign a perennial mystery? I thought it'd be fun to do a thread on the history of the zodiac and how we actually know where

LunaSolaria

lunappdev

Neglecting leap seconds, there are 30 years and *12 hours* between 1 Jan 1970 0:00 (the start of the unix "POSIX" epoch that computers use) and 1 Jan 2000 12:00

Principal Scientific Adviser, Govt. of India

PrinSciAdvGoI

Thread. With Professor Govind Swarup’s demise, the world of astronomy has lost a great scientist, institution-, and telescope- builder. Ever-smiling, not one to take a no for anything he wanted

Paul Mainwood

PaulMainwood

A reflection from the history of science.Scientific controversies of the past are written up in textbooks with one side "winning" once experimental evidence becomes overwhelming.Three things glossed: a) How unpleasant

Anna Hughes

AnnaGHughes

Astronomers once had reason to believe there was another planet - they called it Vulcan - orbiting between Mercury and the Sun. 1/ In 1846, French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier

Sarafina Nance

starstrickenSF

why is the sky dark at night?the answer is actually pretty complex & relies on some of the coolest parts of our Universe—the expansion of space-time, the speed of light,