#astrodons — Public Fediverse posts

🌍 Is there a "second Earth" out there? This question is at the heart of a feasibility study involving Stefan Kimeswenger from the University of Innsbruck. The team tested a setup designed to analyze #exoplanets for molecules such as water and oxygen. A giant flower-shaped satellite could serve as a “sunshade” in space.

🆕 https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2026/sunshade-helps-in-the-search-for-a-second-earth/

📖 Paper in Nature Astronomy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02787-9

#starshade #HOEE #astrodon #astrophysics #astronomy #astrodons

🌍 Is there a "second Earth" out there? This question is at the heart of a feasibility study involving Stefan Kimeswenger from the University of Innsbruck. The team tested a setup designed to analyze #exoplanets for molecules such as water and oxygen. A giant flower-shaped satellite could serve as a “sunshade” in space.

🆕 https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2026/sunshade-helps-in-the-search-for-a-second-earth/

📖 Paper in Nature Astronomy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02787-9

#starshade #HOEE #astrodon #astrophysics #astronomy #astrodons

🌍 Is there a "second Earth" out there? This question is at the heart of a feasibility study involving Stefan Kimeswenger from the University of Innsbruck. The team tested a setup designed to analyze #exoplanets for molecules such as water and oxygen. A giant flower-shaped satellite could serve as a “sunshade” in space.

🆕 https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2026/sunshade-helps-in-the-search-for-a-second-earth/

📖 Paper in Nature Astronomy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02787-9

#starshade #HOEE #astrodon #astrophysics #astronomy #astrodons

🌍 Is there a "second Earth" out there? This question is at the heart of a feasibility study involving Stefan Kimeswenger from the University of Innsbruck. The team tested a setup designed to analyze #exoplanets for molecules such as water and oxygen. A giant flower-shaped satellite could serve as a “sunshade” in space.

🆕 https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2026/sunshade-helps-in-the-search-for-a-second-earth/

📖 Paper in Nature Astronomy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02787-9

#starshade #HOEE #astrodon #astrophysics #astronomy #astrodons

🌍 Is there a "second Earth" out there? This question is at the heart of a feasibility study involving Stefan Kimeswenger from the University of Innsbruck. The team tested a setup designed to analyze #exoplanets for molecules such as water and oxygen. A giant flower-shaped satellite could serve as a “sunshade” in space.

🆕 https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2026/sunshade-helps-in-the-search-for-a-second-earth/

📖 Paper in Nature Astronomy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02787-9

#starshade #HOEE #astrodon #astrophysics #astronomy #astrodons

see also: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.04621.pdf

For Lisa. A Piano-Based Sonification Project Of Gravitational Waves

#AndreaValle #ValeriyaKorol #GravitationalWaveAstronomy #astrodons

don't ya just love it when a 2014 paper cites long gone URLs in the bibliography? More to the point (#astrodons?) anyone know if this exists anywhere?

M. Hart, and G.S. Smoot, Rhythms of the Universe, a 360°
Production in association with the Berkeley Center for
Cosmological Physics at the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, 2013. www.ustream.tv/recorded/39395730E.

#sonification #cosmology #LBNL #BCCP #astrophysics #itwasONLYtenyearsago

don't ya just love it when a 2014 paper cites long gone URLs in the bibliography? More to the point (#astrodons?) anyone know if this exists anywhere?

M. Hart, and G.S. Smoot, Rhythms of the Universe, a 360°
Production in association with the Berkeley Center for
Cosmological Physics at the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, 2013. www.ustream.tv/recorded/39395730E.

#sonification #cosmology #LBNL #BCCP #astrophysics #itwasONLYtenyearsago

@ScienceDesk The force of gravity is about 90% of its value on Earth's surface when onboard the #ISS. #physics #astrodons #EndTheHype

@ScienceDesk Who cares? The #ISS is not 'in #space '. It is in #LowEarthOrbit , only about 250 miles above us. Kingsport, #Tennessee is further from #Nashville than that! 🤷‍♂️ #physics #astrodons

#Astrodons ☄️ vs. #DIY #FixerUpper

'Alien' signal beamed to Earth from Mars in SETI test

https://www.space.com/seti-alien-message-decoding-practice

#SETI will host of number of videos/zoom meetings about the consequences of their received message from #Mars. Here is a schedule: https://asignin.space/category/programme/

#Space #astronomy #astrodons #astrodon

I am in market for a Dob. Which one should I get? 8” or 10”? Is AD8 or AD10 any good? #astrodons

TommyPussFella says happy #FollowFriday fellow #astrodons and #mastodons. He’s a little out of sorts as our packing ramps up. Hope everyone is having a great Friday - any #WeekendPlans? Wishing everyone #clearskies 💫 🔭

Hi #astrodons! Where do you store large data sets so they’re publicly available for download?

I want to make my simulation data publicly available, so others don’t have to re-run them (at a cost of £38k).

But I have ~80TB of data… and little money for long-term storage 😬

@jameselkins TBH I would use twitter’s search function and look up the words discipline + mastodon + spreadsheet. For historians, there’s a big spreadsheet of #histodons. There are also lists of #litodons, #astrodons, etc

A reminder for all #astrodons.

Some mastodon instances exist for the sole purpose of giving the worst of humanity the chance to harrass others, to spew vile hatred, and to try to make the world a worse place.

If you see them in your replies, if you have to interact with them in any way here, please report them. Report early and often, so I can block them and their servers.

For those of you having to deal with this, I wish I had a fraction of the patience and courage you have. You're amazing.

So, I like #litaphants, don’t get me wrong. But I think we should follow the pattern of the other disciplines. There’s #histodons, #astrodons, etc. I suggest Literary Studies use #litodons going forward. It follows the format others are using and makes sense. #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #LitStudies

So, I like #litaphants, don’t get me wrong. But I think we should follow the pattern of the other disciplines. There’s #histodons, #astrodons, etc. I suggest Literary Studies use #litodons going forward. It follows the format others are using and makes sense. #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #LitStudies

So, I like #litaphants, don’t get me wrong. But I think we should follow the pattern of the other disciplines. There’s #histodons, #astrodons, etc. I suggest Literary Studies use #litodons going forward. It follows the format others are using and makes sense. #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #LitStudies