#Astronomers

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sarahgperry1

Because I am on a train (did I mention?) I must briefly and a little angrily vent, in manner of pressure cooker for example, regarding women and the history of

卐 Vedic Boy 卐

vedicboy

[Thread]How was the Universe created?Why was the Universe created?What was there before it was created?Let's see what the Vedas has to say- Different religions have different creation mythsAbrahamic religions say

Ad Astra Academy

AdAstraScience

Vida em Vênus? Seria possível? Hoje, @astroaline e @funcionaloucura falarão sobre a detecção de fosfina na atmosfera de Venus!Life in Venus? Could it be possible? Today @astroaline and @funcionaloucura will

Cheyenne⚡️🇱🇨

CheyennePolius

I tried not to make this too long but this is the most exciting thing I’ve ever done in my life. Plus it’s 42% gifs. So here goes:My Astrophysics Master’s

Dr Natalie Starkey

StarkeyStardust

I'm not an astronomer...BUT...I do know a bit about comets so here's my take on why you might want to get excited about Comet ATLAS (otherwise known as C/2019 Y4),

Euresilience / Massimo

Euresilience

I’m excited about our new initiative to to strengthen collaboration between European and African astronomers.I’ll explain the project in this thread: The African continent has an immense astronomical heritage. Erathostene,

Dr. Rachael Beaton

rareflwr41

Heard on a tech podcast "ground astornomy is ruined already by light pollution anyway" ... obviously didn't look up the places where cutting edge observations are actually made made. There

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

So we know what's the matter with America, but what's the matter with the *Universe*? Oh, about 31%.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/whats-the-matter-with-the-universe-about-31 2/ A new study tried to determine how much of the Universe

Brian Keating

DrBrianKeating

I just received the sad news that my colleague, Margaret Burbidge, has passed away. She turned 100 years old last August. Margaret played a foundational role in the physics and

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

Elliptical orbits & accurate Heliocentric periodsAryabhata 499CEEllipse EquationsMahavira 850CEUniform Mean planetary motion & instantaneous velocityBhaskara II 1150CEPartial heliocentric modelNeelakanta 1501 CEFirst unified model f

Kimberly Kowal Arcand

kimberlykowal

News! Astronomers have caught a black hole hurling hot material into space at close to the speed of light. The black hole and its companion star make up a system

हिरण्यरेता

Hiranyareta

But any such thing mentioned in Hindu Scriptures is back calculation by crafty Brahmins per Indologists.https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/924979200322424833 In 1790, the Scottish mathematician John Playfair demonstrated that the starting-da

Green Bank Observatory

GreenBankObserv

To celebrate #AdaLovelaceDay , here's a thread of five of the most prolific female radio astronomers! 1. Elizabeth Alexander was a WWII radar scientist who discovered that her equipment was

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, the Universe was still in chaos.Except for this galaxy.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/how-did-this-galaxy-emerge-from-the-chaos-just-15-billion-years-after-the-big-bang 2/ Nicknamed the Wolfe Galaxy, it

Akshat | Sarafina stan account

star_stufff

Ada Lovelace, she was the author of the first computer program a 100 years before computers came into existenceMargaret burbidge, discovered that elements that make up everything on earth AND

Juleah Kaliski

JuleahKaliski

[ THREAD ]We spend a lot of time looking out into the universe.With the help of space telescopes like Hubble, Chandra, and Spitzer we see beautiful images of other galaxies