Thomas Carpentier

A big gas cloud where new stars are being born seen in infrared light. The gas cloud itself appears in red, orange, and violet colours, occupying almost the entire image. Hundreds of dots are spread across the picture, as they are stars in our own galaxy.

The best part of processing space telescopes' data is to discover new regions that I didn't even know existed in the first place! 🔭

This is G054.093+01.748, a star forming region in our galaxy, as seen by the JWST recently, located in the Outer Scutum–Centaurus spiral arm.

HD: flic.kr/p/2rxLQyT

A big gas cloud where new stars are being born seen in infrared light. The gas cloud itself appears in red, orange, and violet colours, occupying almost the entire image. Hundreds of dots are spread across the picture, as they are stars in our own galaxy.

The best part of processing space telescopes' data is to discover new regions that I didn't even know existed in the first place! 🔭

This is G054.093+01.748, a star forming region in our galaxy, as seen by the JWST recently, located in the Outer Scutum–Centaurus spiral arm.

HD: flic.kr/p/2rxLQyT

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

La Repubblica published that 60k people were in the streets in Florence, but I believe we were far more than that.

So many Italian cities are rising up for this important cause, and we are all ready to keep going as long as we need to!

There were so many people in the streets in Florence this morning, it was amazing! 🇵🇸✊

Firenze lo sa da quale parte stare!

Infographic showing the path of comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object to enter our Solar System. It displays the orbits of Earth, Mars and the Juice spacecraft around the Sun, along with key dates and events as comet 3I/ATLAS travels through the inner Solar System in 2025. Coloured and numbered dots mark important observation points by telescopes and spacecraft.

All eyes on #3I/ATLAS ☄️

Our Mars Express & ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter will observe the comet around its closest approach to Mars on 3 October 2025, when 3I/ATLAS will be around 30 million km from the red planet.

Stay tuned and follow esa.int/3IATLAS 🔭🧪

An observation of a star cluster by the Hubble Space Telescope. Thousands of stars can be seen in the image, appearing in blue, red, orange or white colors. A blue and white veil of gas goes from the upper left part of the image to the middle down part of it.

I am bringing your TL some sparkles! 🔭 ✨

This is the NGC-1850 star cluster in the LMC, as seen by Hubble! The number of stars in that part of the cluster is bonkers 🤯

Processing that data was really fun!

HD: flic.kr/p/2ruwYSH

Thank you!! 🥲

Thanks! I was just amazed by all the details in the background and it caught my eyes

Jets created by the new stars being born

A spiral galaxy seen face on, exposing its arms system

Another spiral galaxy on the right part of this focus, with other background galaxies everywhere else

A gravitational lensed galaxy

Some things deserve a focus 🔭

First, the jets created by the formation of new stars, that are sooooo beautiful;

the spiral galaxies in the background that are impressive as well;

and this gravitational lensed background galaxy is a nice touch!

A focus on a star forming region seen in infrared light. Hundreds of white dots, big and small ones, can be seen everywhere in the image as they are stars! A lot of gas can be seen in the image, covering almost every part of it. This gas is what is helping the new stars to be formed there. In the upper left part, multiple jets can be spotted: they are stars being born at this very moment! A lot of background galaxies can also be spotted in the whole image

The JWST had a new look into the IC348 star forming region last year, and here's my processed image of that observation! 🔭

IC348 is located some 1,000 light years away from us and is made of hundreds of new stars born there.

HD: flic.kr/p/2ruCvCz

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Astronomers spot mysterious gamma-ray explosion, unlike any detected before! 💥

Our VLT revealed that its source lies outside our galaxy. Yet its cause is still unknown 🤔 Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2514/

🔭 🧪 ☄️
#extragalactic
#highenergyastro

For 58€ a month I can ride on almost any public transport anywhere in Germany. Within a 15 minute walk from my house I can access 4 S Bahn lines, 3 UBahn lines, regional trains (I honestly don’t even know how many of those), 3 tram lines and at least 4 city bus lines (probably more).

A star, which has been blocked by a black circle, surrounded by three rings (the smaller one is the nearest, the biggest one the farthest). A red dot can be spotted on the right side of the second ring. The rings are in orange colour.

This is a big one! 🔭

A few weeks ago, I worked with a team of astronomers, led by Anne-Marie Lagrange, on SPHERE and MIRI data. It was about the TWA7 exoplanet, something you probably read about in June.

They asked me to produce another image, so here's the result:

Evidence for a sub-Jovian planet in the young TWA 7 disk  - Nature Using the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument, a study reports evidence for a direct detection of a cold, sub-Jupiter-mass planet in the disk of the star TWA 7. 

If you want to read more, here's the published paper (without my image): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And here's the ESA's version: esawebb.org/news/weic2512/

The same image but with indication: the rings are highlighted by dashed-lines; a scale on the bottom shows that the exoplanet is located some 50+ AU from the star and the farthest ring has a diameter of 200 AU; the North is indicated on the top and the East is on the left.

TWA7 is a small star located ~111 light years away, and with the MIRI data, they spotted what is most probably a sub-Jovian exoplanet! This is the red dot on the right, located 52 AU away from the star. 🔭

You can also see three rings around the star, that I focused on during my processing time.

A star, which has been blocked by a black circle, surrounded by three rings (the smaller one is the nearest, the biggest one the farthest). A red dot can be spotted on the right side of the second ring. The rings are in orange colour.

This is a big one! 🔭

A few weeks ago, I worked with a team of astronomers, led by Anne-Marie Lagrange, on SPHERE and MIRI data. It was about the TWA7 exoplanet, something you probably read about in June.

They asked me to produce another image, so here's the result:

The entrance and the tower of the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence

The Duomo of the Cattedrale

The Palazzo Vecchio

The Basilica of Santa Croce

Starting next Monday and for the next 4 years, I will be a PhD Researcher at the EUI in Florence!

As I arrived yesterday, I decided to visit, for the first time, the historic centre of Florence, and it's just incredible!! I can't wait to see even more

Hello! Yeah Flickr changed their conditions to download full resolution pictures, the owner of the picture needs to have a Pro account (which I can't afford right now).

I've uploaded it on my GDrive: drive.google.com/file/d/1ksMx...

Of course you'll need to credit me properly but I trust you!

I am not a SF reader, but I now know one to avoid if I ever become one! 😀

I was wondering: is the little white dot near the centre the white dwarf or is just a background star? 🔭 🤔

Don't know if anyone would have the answer though

A planetary nebula seen in near-infrared. The whole nebula looks like a spider or a scorpion, with the centre being extremely bright with red clouds around it, while the gas structure is mostly orange and yellow. Thousands of stars can be seen everywhere in the image appearing like big bright object, or little bright dots.

I have arachnophobia, but when it's the JWST that observes a spider, I am not scared: I am in awe! 🔭

This is the Red Spider Nebula, a planetary nebula located ~5,000 light years away, as seen by the JWST last year!

Every dot here is a star in a small part of our own galaxy

HD: flic.kr/p/2robFBx

A lenticular galaxy seen in mid-infrared light. A lenticular galaxy is a galaxy with a circular shape, but with no distinct spiral arm. The gas and dust seen in mid-infrared appear orange in the image, everywhere in the disk. The centre is way brighter than the rest. A blue veil encompasses the entire galaxy: this is the gas and dust visible in the shorter wavelength filters.

87M light years away from us lies this lenticular galaxy, NGC-1482. Here you can its beauty thanks to JWST/MIRI data released earlier today! 🔭

It is a starburst galaxy as well, meaning a lot of new stars are born there every years, way more than in our own Milky Way!

HD: flic.kr/p/2rnj5cs

The Barcelona Cathedral

Inside a patio in the Barri Gòtic

The signed shirt of the Barça player Aitana Bonmatí and her two Ballons d'Or

Inside the Finestres library

And was there on Friday as well, for a shorter time, but I had seen many other things that day too!

I went broke when I bought two Barcelona shirts... But it was so worth it!

I miss you already Barna 😭

Three books on a table: "El 19 de Juliol de 1936" written by Abel Paz; "Hommage to Catalonia" written by George Orwell; "Republica i Guerra Civil a Catalunya" written by Pelai Pagés Blanch

I of course grabbed some books, the Finestres library is a gem. I can't recommend you to go there enough if you're in Barcelona! That's probably my favorite library that I visited (and oh boy I've seen many of them!)

The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Montjuïc.

A painting inside the museum depicting Venice in the 16th century

A view from afar of the museum and of another building: the Archeological Museum

The first Gaudí building, a villa in Gràcia neighborhood

Yesterday I was in Barcelona for the day, and that city is really the love of my life 🥰

There are so many beautiful things to see and do rather than just going to tourists-invaded spots (such as the Barceloneta playa)

43°C today in Toulouse, 41°C tomorrow and Wednesday, probably another heat wave from Saturday on. It'll be incredibly hard to not be exhausted, both physically and mentally...

I love summer, but this is not it. This is what we all fear, except those who hold the power.

Proposal Abstract We propose the first sub-arcsecond imaging campaign of the giant, asymmetric edge-on disk IRAS 23077+6707 (Dracula's Chivito/DraChi) to study its dust grain structure and evolution from 0.4-1.7 microns. DraChi is enormous: spanning approx. 14 arcsec on the sky, it is far in excess of any average protoplanetary disk extents, making it the largest protoplanetary disk thus far discovered. Moreover, this disk is highly asymmetric, yet has only been imaged at low resolution from the ground with Pan-STARRS. These images show not only two faint filaments in the disk's northern part that extend well beyond 20 arcsec, but also various brightness asymmetries. We propose the imaging of this enigmatic disk in only three HST orbits using the WFC3/UVIS broadband filters F438W, F606W and F814W and the WFC3/IR broadband filters F105W, F125W and F160W to map at unprecedented angular scales the wavelength dependence of the disk's midplane thickness, determine the dust grain properties and the degree of their vertical settling and ultimately probe the extent to which ongoing planet formation is driving DraChi's asymmetric substructures.

And while I am at it, here's the proposal abstract with more information: 🔭

The same disk seen in infrared light. Some structures in the disk appears clearer here, like some sort of "eruptions" of gas emanating from the centre part.

The team led by Dr. Kristina Monsch also requested the use of the infrared filters of Hubble, so here's the infrared version as well! 🔭

We are seeing the disk edge-on, hence the peculiar form of this type of object (as Gomez's Hamburger for instance).

HD: flic.kr/p/2rmv1P7