Andrew Nine

A list of quotes from my introductory astronomy class: "Plasma is basically spicy gas." "Running. Bumping into someone. Changing directions. Running. Repeat until you find your way out." "The sun jiggles!" "Friendly neighborhood nitrogen." "Cluster turn-off." "Live fast, die young." "Black holes are really just piranhas." "Weird looking pancake." "Stars are being actively formed in the arms." "Galaxies are cannibals." "The quiet subdivision of our galaxy." "MILK-DROMEDA" "Spiral arms are galactic traffic jams." "The race is on." "But they're trying very hard and we're very proud of them." [Deadpan] "I am in free fall." "We're not that hot." "The Sun is GREEN!~" "This question tripped up a graduate student, and you just answered it." "If you want to measure radio wavelengths, you want to be as far away from human civilization as possible. So, West Virginia." "If the Great Dane goes after a squirrel, you will too." "I'm not trying to dunk on this kid, but.." "Why?" Prepares menacing voice 'HISTORY.." "I WOULD tell you about intermediate black holes, buuuuut we have no information on them." "[Galaxies] have friends?!" Professor Nine: "Yes, they do!" "Apparently SCP-401 is some kind of human flesh tree?"

We're wrapping up finals here in Whitewater, and some of my students gave me a present! 🥰 Can you guess the context behind these quotes?

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This is what happens when galaxies collide; a billion year gravitational waltz.

This supercomputer simulation includes images from Hubble of actual galactic collisions at different stages.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers

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IMPORTANT LIFE UPDATE: Starting in the Fall I will be a TENURE-TRACK PROFESSOR at UW-Whitewater!!!

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Tired of wondering which atomic lines are in your spectra? You need:

*whose line is it anyway?* An interactive tool for identifying atomic spectral lines. 🧪🔭 #stars

install:
pip install whoseline

source:
github.com/bmorris3/who...

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xkcd.com/927/

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The Köln Concert - Wikipedia

50 years ago today, on 24/01/1975, jazz pianist Keith Jarrett walked on stage in the Köln opera house, sat down at a faulty Bösendorfer baby grand piano & produced a purely improvised live performance that would become the best-selling piano album of all time, released by ECM as The Köln Concert.

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Sadly, no, this is very real.

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Ah, whoops, thanks!

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I’m happy to help!

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Is it really “all good” unless you say it three times in rapid succession?

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Astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung was born OTD in 1873. 🧪 🔭

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