@astroglaser.bsky.social
Computational Astrophysicist at @NANOGrav / @wvuresearch. Studying the effects of stellar flybys on planets. Alumni of @DrexelUniv. Avid #Maker (He/Him)
I hope every single Tufts parent out there calls the University and their reps about this.
26.03.2025 18:13 β π 574 π 174 π¬ 23 π 9
Give the gift of opportunity on this #WVUDayofGiving β¨ Help our aspiring physicists and astronomers reach for the stars by donating to our Physics Scholarship Fund - 2S061!
Donate today to directly support students π dayofgiving.wvu.edu
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We're actively in the process to make this Observatory happen! The shed is on order, the telescope is being serviced, and the site is being prepped!
However, concrete is extremely expensive, so additional donations are VERY welcome so we can focus on making the scope automated for outreach! :D
Feeling nostalgic about my Fly app (gruze.org/fly).
I was working with astronomer Richard Smart, who lead the team that created the Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars (out to 100 parsecs) and we kept coming up with more features to add.
In light of the recent memo circulated by the acting NASA Director, it's even more important for folks in our community to support efforts like this. β¦οΈ
24.01.2025 16:05 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
Not all those who wander are lost: Bhaskar and Perets on βProperties of Free Floating Planets Ejected through Planet-Planet Scatteringβ showing that 40-80% of planets are ejected (with small velocities), and that 5-10 planets per star can match the free floating planet population ππͺ #astrodon
24.01.2025 07:48 β π 44 π 8 π¬ 4 π 4
On your swag hunt at #AAS245? Come get badge ribbons all about gravity and fortune cookies provided by LISA. All at the Gravitational Wave Astrophysics booth. :D
15.01.2025 16:56 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
If you are at #AAS245, drop by the stage at the exhibit hall and listen to #DSA-2000 overview talk going on right now!
15.01.2025 16:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Who needs a First Edition Charzard when you can collect pulsars?! Come check out the Gravitational Wave Astrophysics @ #AAS245 and chat about @nanograv.bsky.social / LISA / LIGO science with us.
15.01.2025 16:22 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like face-on: as viewed from above the disc of the galaxy, with its spiral arms and bulge in full view. In the centre of the galaxy, the bulge shines as a hazy oval, emitting a faint golden gleam. Starting at the central bulge, several glistening spiral arms coil outwards, creating a perfectly circle-shaped spiral. They give the impression of someone having sprinkled pastel purple glitter on the pitch-black background, in the shape of sparkling, curled-up snakes.
A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like edge-on, against a pitch-black backdrop. The Milky Wayβs disc appears in the centre of the image, as a thin, dark-brown line spanning from left to right, with the hint of a wave in it. The line appears to be etched into a thin glowing layer of silver sand, that makes it look as if it was drawn with a coloured pencil on coarse paper. The bulge of the galaxy sits like a glowing, see-through pearl in the shape of a sphere in the centre of this brown line
The ESA #Gaia mission has delivered the best Milky Way maps to date and taken its last starlight before spacecraft retirement π
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
Come to the #AAS245 town hall today to discuss the ethical and other challenges that we face in using AI in astronomy! 12.45pm in National Harbor 2.
(Below is what you get from ChatGPT when you ask for an optimistic and then a pessimistic view of astronomy and AI.) π
DSA-2000 opening talk
ngVLA intro talk
Come check out the DSA-2000/ngVLA session going until 11am today at Chesapeake 4-5! #AAS245
15.01.2025 15:17 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Important skill for physics students to learn π’
18.11.2024 20:02 β π 16 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Hey #AstroSky, make sure you fill out this survey! Its extremely important to showcase the financial strains we face as early career scientists and our history with the fight for financially accessible higher education.
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Twitter Bird Logo over the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field.
And I have arrived on Blue Sky! The real question, what do we call #AstroTwitter now?
26.07.2023 16:05 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
