#astronomer — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #astronomer, aggregated by home.social.
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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
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#Astronomer, the company whose CEO and head of HR were caught intimate at #Coldplay concert is doing damage control.
I love companies that realize that they have to address the public in a serious situation.
But using Gwyneth #Paltrow to say that 'Astronomer is the best place to run Apache Airflow' looks like they are just trying to laugh it away.
Oh yes, before I forget, Paltrow is the ex-wife of Coldplay front-man Chris Martin. More questions than answers it seems.
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𝗚𝘄𝘆𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘄 '𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘁' 𝘃𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗷𝗲
Gwyneth Paltrow is de 'tijdelijke woordvoerder' van Astronomer, het bedrijf dat onlangs in het nieuws kwam nadat de affaire van de topman en hr-manager werd geopenbaard tijdens een concert van Coldplay. De actrice en ex-vrouw van Coldplay-zanger Chris Martin geeft in een spotje antwoord op...
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How fast is the Universe expanding? This astronomer took cosmology closer to an answer
Wendy Freedman is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03899-w
#Cosmology #HubbleTension #HubbleConstant #Science #Nature #astronomer #astronomi #astrophysics #STEM #WomeninSTEM #Womeninscience #Universe
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For the #Spacetober day 11 prompt wavelength: my #linocut of trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941) with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵1/n
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #printersolstice2024 #MastoArt
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A quotation from Clarke, Arthur C.:
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The Universe appears to be a device contrived for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/clarke-arthur-c/72271/#quote #quotes #quotation #astonishment #astronomer #astronomy #nature #universe #wonder #discovery #science