#astronomers — Public Fediverse posts

🚀🪐 "Sky Map 2000" tries to be a celestial guide but ends up as a cosmic mess of options and settings that even a seasoned astronomer would find dizzying. 🌌🤯 With its endless menus and never-ending list of features, you'd think navigating the stars required a PhD in astrophysics—or perhaps just a degree in patience. 📜🔭
https://skymap2000.com/ #SkyMap2000 #Astronomers #CosmicMess #NavigationChallenges #CelestialGuide #HackerNews #ngated

#VeraRubin #Telescope Begins Surveying Our Cosmos, the widest, deepest survey yet of the southern sky.
Telescope will drink in galaxies and stars, creating record of how objects streak, pulse and explode in our solar system and beyond.
#Astronomers expect data, known as Legacy Survey of Space and Time, to revolutionize knowledge of galaxy’s birth, invisible matter permeating cosmos, what shaped the universe into the structure it has today and more.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/science/rubin-telescope.html
https://archive.ph/srQJ9

In this week's episode, we're talking about Caroline Herschel & Comets!

Listen here & see the thread below for links for a deeper dive into the life and accomplishments of Caroline Herschel: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-caroline-herschel-and-comets/

#comets #Herschel #astronomy #AstroDon #space #science #history #Herstory #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM #WomenAstronomers #astronomers #comet #SciComm #podcast

For #TransDayOfVisibilty (and all days), let's celebrate the accomplishments of #transgender #astronomers & #astrophysicists, learn more about some of the brilliant #trans folks working in #astronomy at the links below:

Dr. Megan Pickett: https://astrobites.org/2025/06/27/megan-pickett-interview/

Jessica Mink: https://aas.org/comms/sgma/sgma-interviews-jessica-mink

Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet: https://astrobites.org/2025/06/06/eliot-vrijmoet-interview

Wichahpi King: https://astrobites.org/2025/06/20/wichahpi-king-interview/

Dr. JJ/Jan Eldridge: https://500queerscientists.com/jj-eldridge/

Dr. Rebecca Oppenheimer: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/opinion/transgender-today/stories/rebecca-oppenheimer

Please feel free to share profiles of #trans astronomers and astrophysicists in the comments!

📷 :https://www.vanderbiltmuseum.org/portfolio/pride/

#trans #TransgenderDayOfVisibility #TDOV

A double cosmic explosion could be the first known ‘#superkilonova’
The blast may have come from a collision of tiny #neutronstars forged in a #supernova
#Astronomers have spotted a distant #star that seems to have exploded twice. U.S.-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or #LIGO, and the Virgo detector in Italy detected ripples in spacetime coming from a pair of neutron stars merging about 1.8 billion light-years away.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/double-explosion-by-star-superkilonova
https://archive.ph/fZfZp

#Astronomers Spot the Earliest Confirmed #BlackHole at #CosmicDawn

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/astronomers-spot-the-earliest-confirmed-black-hole-at-cosmic-dawn

#Astronomers envision huge crater-filling radio dishes 📡 and arrays of antennas hundreds of kilometers 📏 across.
#SpaceAgencies and companies ⚒️ are planning fleets of #Moon-orbiting #satellites 🛰️ to help rovers navigate on the surface and to relay their data 📶 to #Earth. But even if satellites avoid key frequencies or switch off as they fly above #telescopes 🔭, unintended #emissions from onboard #electronics could be detectable https://www.science.org/content/article/moon-s-scientifically-important-sites-could-be-lost-forever-mining-rush

#MoonMining #SpaceScience