#astronomer — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #astronomer, aggregated by home.social.
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#OnThisDay #Helium was discovered (1868) by French #Astronomer Jules Janssen during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India.
Birth Anniversary of French #Virologist Luc Montagnier (1932). He received #NobelPrize for discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (#HIV).
Birth Anniversary of #Actor Robert Redford (1936).
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@OGJester Would also make a hole ... If you are interested in #spacedebris, I warmly recommend to follow #astronomer and specialist @sundogplanets !
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Happy birthday to #astronomer Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies & evolution of our universe! The Nobel committee waited 3 years after she died to reward another for the theory of dark matter.
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In collaboration with Soton Astrodome I used some of their old acetate star maps (from @esoastronomy I think) to make double exposure cyanotypes about space & memory.
I used 30 star maps to make a star.
Would LOVE to carry on this theme but I used all the sheets I have.
Any #astronomer out there (hello @astroroyalscot.bsky.social )know of acetate star maps that could be donated?
I can donate some of the art in return.
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here's who you have to thank for the constellation "Microscopium" ...
Learn more about the #astronomy of this constellation & about Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in this week's episode: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/microscopium-cosmic-background/
#astrodon #astronomer #history #science
📷 :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-Louis_de_Lacaille#/media/File:Lacaille.jpg
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Happy birthday to #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. My portrait of Leavitt is printed in silvery lavender ink on Japanese kozo paper. Behind her is a line showing stellar luminosity (capital L with subscript sun-symbol, a circle with a dot) as a function of time (t). She is printed over constellations in gold (Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Draco, Ursa Minor & Andromeda). 🧵1/
#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #sciart #histsci #astronomy #mastoArt
