#astronomer — Public Fediverse posts

As promised, my #Astronomy / #DarkSkies / #Astrophotography List [alpha order] for #FollowFriday ! Suggestions welcome! 🔭 🌌 🌟

@AlexSanterne
#Astronomer, working @IPAG & teaching at #University Grenoble-Alpes (France).
Interests: #photography #Astronomy #Space

@ArvitZ
Process Engineering Student, Amateur - #Astrophotographer, FPV-Quad Pilot
So in a nutshell I like STEM, watching our universe and flying around with fast drones basically...

@badastro
#Astronomer, #scicomm, #author, etc.

@cosmos4u
Science writer in Germany since, gasp, 1982 specializing in all things space

@esa [bot]
This is an unofficial repeater of the RSS feed of the #EuropeanSpaceAgency [ #ESA ]

@esoastronomy
The European Southern Observatory designs, builds & operates world-class observatories on the ground for the benefit of society.

@JohnBarentine
#Astronomer. Historian. Author. Space environmentalist. Small business owner. Arizona native. Proud LGBT American. 🏳️‍🌈 Retiring to asteroid 14505. Questioning everything; occasionally getting in trouble for it. Toots about #Astronomy, #LightPollution, #DarkSkies, #Satellites, #SciencePolicy, #History and more.

@malcircuit
"This is where I share my #astrophotography without all of the drama."

@maxplanckgesellschaft
Germany's leading basic research organization. Toots in English and German.
#Astronomy #Physics

@mustapipa
Astronomer, researcher at Helsinki University, discoverer of dozens of planets, notably the candidate habitable world #Proximab around the nearest star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri.

@planet4589.bsky.social [bridge]
#Astrophysicist #LEO
Support the work of #JonathansSpaceReport
🌉 bridged from 🦋 planet4589.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

@salvabara
#LightPollution researcher. Former profesor titular de Óptica (retired) at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galiza (European Union).
Born at 317 ppm CO2

@space_environmentalism
The #CenterForSpaceEnvironmentalism ( #CSE ) increases awareness and understanding of space environmentalism issues and helps stakeholders make better decisions about them by pursuing research, education, outreach and advocacy. https://www.spaceenvironmentalism.org #Space #SpaceEnvironment #SpaceEnvironmentalism

@stargazersmith
Stargeezer, retired. Worked in computer science (PhD), aerospace engineering, and astronomy.
Interests: #amateurastronomy #scifi #software #perl #forth #linux #R #GnuOctave

@starrytimepod
Sisters Jordan and Kit (@kitirving) cohost this #podcast featuring #astronomy & ret-cons(tellations) of #mythology. Season 3: Into the Wild is afoot!
Follow for toots related to #astronomy, #space, #astrophotography, #StarLore, #mythology of the night sky, and, occasionally, other things we're into (e.g., #StarTrek #Grogu #DoctorWho #Basketball #celtics #ThemeParks #scifi #writing #dinosaurs #storytelling #Creatures etc.)

@sundogplanets
Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She/her.
Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada).
Thanks to Saskatchewan's beautiful night sky, my research background in small body orbital dynamics, and a couple of really unfortunately placed SpaceX reentries, I spend a lot of time yelling about satellite pollution in international news media.

@wawn [bot]
This bot posts daily updates on Earth's distances from its awkward neighbors, along with other bizarre weekly bulletins from the #SolarSystem.

#Followerpower #FridayFollows #MastoScience

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

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬! 💫
At last week’s @girlsday 26 students had the chance to explore careers in science that are still often considered “male-dominated.” They experienced hands-on research at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy – not only as astronomers, but also as electrical engineers and precision mechanics. 👩‍🔬🔧💡
🛠️ They could choose from four exciting workshops:
🔭 Pulsar Workshop: 10 students worked with real data from the 100-meter radio telescope in Effelsberg 📡 to search for pulsars – which can even be used to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Our colleagues provided worksheets and the necessary software for the task. 💻
🤖 Line Follower: 4 participants soldered and assembled an autonomous robot that follows a pre-set line – all by itself! And yes, they got to take it home with them. 🔩✨
⚡ Tesla Transformer: 8 girls built their very own Tesla transformer – strong enough to light up a fluorescent tube just by being nearby – without any contact! 💥💡
🧩 Puzzle Workshop: 4 students crafted their own aluminum puzzle pieces in our workshop and learned that massive structures like radio telescopes are built from many small, custom-made parts – not mass-produced ones. 🛠️🔍
Curiosity, energy, and lots of tech – thank you to everyone who made this day so special! 💜👩‍🔧 We’re already looking forward to next year!
#girlsday2026

#workshop #schoolstudents #radioastronomy #electricalengineer #astronomer #mechanic #radiotelescope #pulsar #puzzle

#BigThink: How a Team of #Female #Astronomers Revolutionized Our Understanding of #Stars

#Astronomer Anna Frebel delivers a fascinating 3-min talk on the influential #history of #women #scientists analyzing & categorizing #celestial bodies. Female "#computers" were making "stellar" contributions [her #pun] in the early decades of the 20th #century.

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-lJx4E0mjY 2016 Feb 24
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Frebel

#Community #TimeTravel #Research #quantum #physics #2025Mar14 #Kronodon

For the #Spacetober prompt history: my #linocut portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) & his model of the celestial spheres, or as we would say, the solar system. Copernicus is shown in green with a lily of the valley, the standard Renaissance symbol to indicate a medical doctor, since like most proto-scientists, or ‘philosophers’ (doctors of philosophy) he learned his astronomy incidentally,🧵
#linocut #printmaking #Copernicus #astronomy #histstm #astronomer #sciart #solarSystem #MastoArt

For the #Spacetober prompt orbit: my portrait of #mathematician and #astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)! We remember him for his role in the Scientific Revolution, and his three laws of planetary motion in particular. His laws modified Copernicus’ heliocentric model; he replaced the circular orbits with elliptical ones & described velocities of planets. Today we know them as:
🧵1/n

#sciart #histsci #MastoArt #Kepler #geometry #PlatonicSolids #mathematics #musicOfTheSpheres #linocut

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

For the #Spacetober day 7 prompt sun: #astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), who discovered that hydrogen & helium are the most common elements in sun & stars & hence the universe.⁠
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Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College at Cambridge in 1919 where she heard a lecture which changed her life. She wrote, “My world had been so shaken that I experienced something very like a 🧵1/
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#linocut #physics #sciart #printmaking #womenInSTEM #MastoArt #astrophysics #astronomer

#inspiring #goodnews #songoftheday

since we can´t find much QUEEN on Mastodon, lets add

🎥🎵➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB3RbO7updc

= #BohemianRhapsody at a #TEDtalk

dedicating it to

#Astronomer
#scientist
#philanthroph
AND #Rockstar

#SirDrBrianMay´s BIRTHDAY a few days ago

and add an article found by @TheMetalDog (thank you!):

➡️ https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1785779/Bohemian-Rhapsody-2-Brian-May-Freddie-Mercury

#Queen are #givingback a lot to #fans & #communities, even today. #BrianMay

#yesWEAID #humanitarian #liveunited #TEDtalk #wewillrockyou #news