#Astronomers

Robert McNees

mcnees

Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born #OTD in 1900. She decoded spectral lines of stars to deduce their elemental composition (concluding they are mostly H and He) and was the first

Royal Astronomical Society

RoyalAstroSoc

Catching up on the exciting news about #Venus? We've just been taking a look at the way the UK press has reported the story about phosphine being detected in the

ElsaRules#NDM

RulesElsa

Bizzare stories in Islam {Thread} How are babies created? Man ejaculates gushing water and women sexual fluids. Tafsir Ibn Kathir Quran 86:7"(He is created from a water gushing forth.) meaning,

Uni of York Library

UoYLibrary

Just to trail our #UoYLockdownTips which will be coming later today - they're all about @LearnonScreen's amazing Box of Broadcasts.And they'll include some stats, including top 10 watched programmes at

Arav Dutta

arav_dutta

THE UNIVERSE AND ITS CREATIONThe desire to know how things are made and why everything is the way it is has always fascinated humans and all species alike...I am going

William Keel

NGC3314

Today in #BeyondSolSys class material - galaxy history. (Astronomers often speak of galaxy evolution - but as population change rather than descent w/modification, biologists and @GrumpyKelson complain). Anyway, galaxies show

CodesUcq

CodesUcq

1. - "Lyra Antarctica" comms09/01/2020 Ed Sheeran announces birth of daughter Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeranhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/ed-sheeran-has-announced-the-birth-of-his-first-child-lyra-antarctica-seaborn-sheera

Erika Darics is on strike

LinguaDigitalis

Session 3: Management by metrics. Today's session starts with a reflective exercise. Consider the following contradiction. Reflect on your moral dilemmas, if any. https://twitter.com/DameLEGOVC/status/1198251413098422272?s=20 1/11 Key reading is

Akshat | Sarafina stan account

star_stufff

VAMPIRE STARS!Yes, you read that right! Vampires and zombies do exist in the real Universe, atleast in the form of some weird Stars!The stuff I'm going to show you is

Bharatputra101

bharatputra101

This is a thread of Some of the Great Ancient Astronomers of #India Hope you will like it.1)Lagadha (1400 bc):The writer of earliest astronomical text,Vedanga Jyotica,which provides details on several

Mark McCaughrean

markmccaughrean

The iconic @nasa/@esa Hubble Space Telescope was launched 30 yrs ago today on the space shuttle Discovery. HST has made amazing scientific breakthroughs & inspired generations in ways many others

brick

1312x40

THREAD: On the Gorgon and female rage(also: look, the Gorgon is female.) What is a Gorgon? Our earliest literary record of the term is in the Iliad (~900 BCE), Bk

Dr. Phil Metzger

DrPhiltill

I was in Home Depot and saw the Farmer’s Almanac in the checkout line so I snapped this. Almanacs since the 1600s have been publishing lists of planets. It is

local oakland enby (ethereal bisexual)

WellsLucasSanto

This video and its responses have been going viral today, but as someone who has lightly studied the history & philosophy of math, I have to say, these are absolutely

Holly Jolly Jasmine 🎄✨

astro_jaz

Cryovolcanism (AKA Ice Volcanoes)!! (1) Before I begin the thread, I HIGHLY encourage everyone to check out the blog post I made associated with this thread. It goes into WAY

Donnie Bets ✳️

donniebets1

Adjusting the brightness on NASA’s photos, why do we see squares? Adjust the gamma brightness, everyone can follow along and do these tests on their own with official nasa photos!