#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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Ancient Star Map Revealed Asteroid Impact ==> Köfels Paleo-Landslide, Austria = Scientific Detective Work!
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https://360onhistory.com/blog-posts/ancient-star-map-reveals-asteroid-impact/ <-- shared technical article, tablet
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https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/212017945233.html <-- shared technical article, tablet
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/history-of-geology/the-strange-medical-case-of-the-radioactive-landslide/ <-- shared technical article, Köfels landslide/asteroid
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.05.001 <-- shared paper, Köfels landslide
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-2461-2021 <-- shared paper, Köfels landslide
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H/T #ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch
#spatial #mapping #ancientmap #starmap #ArchaeoHistories #K8538 #Planisphere #RoyalLibrary #Ashurbanipal #Nenveh #Sumeria #Assyrian #scribe #sumerian #astronomer #astrolab #asteroid #impact #astronomy #KÁ¶fel’ #Köfels #Austria #Tyrol #radioactive #landslide #massmovement #model #modeling #trajectory #clay #tablet #engineeringgeology #paleolandslide #scientific #detectivework
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Vera Rubin at Mayall Telescope
Deidre Hunter (left), Katy Garmany (center), and Vera Rubin (right) at the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope around 2000.
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/VeraRubin_DeidreHunter_KatyGarmany-CC/#VeraRubin #Astronomer #Astronomy #Rubin #DeidreHunter #KatyGarmany #science #STEM #WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience #Astrodon #KittPeak #Arizona #Xterminal #Xterminals #xterm