Joss Bland-Hawthorn

Is Milky Way research an environmental science?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHsu...

17.09.2025 23:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A $100-Million Mission to Another Star Just Disappeared An abandoned plan to visit another star highlights the perils of billionaire-funded science

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

17.09.2025 23:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Figure 16: Sky projections, in Galactic coordinates, showing various properties of the Gaia DR3 data release (see text for details).

Gargantuan Gaia review by Michael Perryman

"271 pages, 126 figures, accepted for publication in Physics Reports"

arxiv.org/abs/2509.10883

16.09.2025 03:46 — 👍 53    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 3

Marc Chagall: All Saints' Tudeley | The Culturium All Saints' Tudeley is home to Marc Chagall's stained glass windows, commissioned to commemorate the life of Sarah d'Avigdor-Goldsmid.

Marc Chagall's work is to be found in famous buildings all over the world. He also did the stained glass windows for a tiny church in Kent... (the only one in the world!)

www.theculturium.com/marc-chagall...

16.09.2025 10:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

LIGO is 10 years old: black-hole breakthroughs will ‘only get better’ A decade after the pair of observatories first detected gravitational waves, researchers are drawing up ambitious plans for its successors.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

16.09.2025 00:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

UK start-up builds first quantum computer using standard chips Quantum Motion’s machine at the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre in Oxfordshire could pave the way for mass production of faster technology

How many world's first quantum computers are there now?

www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

15.09.2025 06:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The day I met Dirac, right before he died in 1982. He said no to a photo, but I mentioned how a relative had done his favourite portrait (now hanging at St Johns College, Cam.) "Oh all right, but no fussing, be quick about it!"

27.08.2025 05:38 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

I just love these stories... awesome!

www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

23.08.2025 00:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

George E. Smith obituary: co-inventor of the charge coupled device, which ushered in an era of digital images Smith’s invention enabled the precise capture of light in electronic form, and has transformed science, medicine and daily life.

George E. Smith obituary: co-inventor of the charge coupled device, which ushered in an era of digital images:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Although not an astronomer, he & Boyle had as much impact on astronomy as any astronomer... and all from one hour of brainstorming.

17.08.2025 07:17 — 👍 43    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 0