#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

Astronomers discover hot watery exoplanet destined to be swallowed by its star
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=astronomers-discover-hot-watery-exoplanet-destined-to-be-swallowed-by-its-star
<p>A newly discovered water dominated exoplanet is in hot-water literally and figuratively
#astronomers #exoplanet #swallowed #discover

Between 1786 and 1797, Caroline Herschel discovered *8* comets!

We should cheer extra loud for Caroline b/c we gotta imagine that her mom probably never did...

To learn more about Caroline (and briefly about her mom) & comets, check out this week's episode here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-caroline-herschel-and-comets/

#Astronomy #AstroDon #Astronomers #WomenInSTEM #WomenInAstronomy #WomenInScience #History #Comets #Discoveries #cheering #BadMoms

Cosmography archives

Nêbuleuses découvertes par différens Astronomes, que M. Messier a cherchées inutilement.

Connoissance des Temps, ou Connoissance des Mouvemens Célestes, Pour l'Année bissextile 1784, pp 268-269.

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6514280n

#Cosmography #CosmographyArchives #Messier #nebulae #ConnoissancedesTemps #astronomy #astrodon #archives #history #HistoryOfScience #Hevelius #LaCaille #Cassini #Flamsteed #astronmer #astronomers #science

#Earth Has a New ‘#QuasiMoon,’ and It May Be Very Tiny
The object shares Earth’s orbit around the sun and could be with us for almost another 60 years.
Latest object is an #asteroid that #astronomers are calling #2025PN7. It has an orbit that’s similar to Earth’s around the sun, meaning it’s like a car traveling in same lane as our planet. It’s what’s known as a quasi-moon. And of handful of known quasi-moons, this one could be smallest, about 52ft
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/science/earth-quasi-moon-asteroid.html
https://archive.ph/T32fs

#Astronomers & #Cosmologists, I know we say that you can't see #DarkMatter, but can we please settle the question, what colour is it, *really*?

For references, see image in the reply (clockwise from top left, #Millennium, #Boshoi, #MXXL, #Uchuu).

#astrodon #astronomy #cosmology #astrophysics #simulation