Dr. Natalia Lewandowska

Yes! Happy to show them to you 😉

We apparently were there at the same time. We were doing the telescope tour of the observatory which was awesome. 4 telescopes to touch and explore = paradise for me 😉

This photo gets me every time.

Every geologist has pictures like this: dirty and disheveled, but just glad to be out in an interesting place. I love field photos of friends, colleagues, and myself. You can see the geological joy we share.

The joy is in this photo. Then 13 hours later, it was over.

“what kind of conference is this?”
“an astronomy conference!”
“oh an astrology conference?”
😫 #AAS245 🔭

An M dwarf star with the text: "I am not a toy. I am not a Christmas present. I am a 10 trillion year commitment"

Think twice before gifting someone an M dwarf this holiday season

No, sorry. We do not record our public shows since there is no reasonable way to record the image of a curved ceiling.

You cannot say no to such a look I guess? 😉

Always a pleasure to contribute an explanation to an amazing APOD picture 🙂

Nineteen Webb images of face-on spiral galaxies are combined in a mosaic. Some appear within squares, and others horizontal or vertical rectangles. Many galaxies have blue hazes toward the centers, and all have orange spiral arms. Many have clear bar shaped-structures at their centers, but a few have spirals that begin at their cores. Some of the galaxies’ arms form clear spiral shapes, while others are more irregular. Some of the galaxies’ arms appear to rotate clockwise and others counterclockwise. Most galaxy cores are centered, but a few appear toward an image’s edge. Most galaxies appear to extend beyond the captured observations. The galaxies shown, listed in alphabetical order, are IC 5332, NGC 628, NGC 1087, NGC1300, NGC 1365, NGC 1385, NGC 1433, NGC 1512, NGC 1566, NGC 1672, NGC 2835, NGC 3351, NGC 3627, NGC 4254, NGC 4303, NGC 4321, NGC 4535, NGC 5068, and NGC 7496.

🧪 🔭 The James Webb Space Telescope released 19 high-res images of nearby face-on spiral galaxies in near- and mid-infrared light, revealing spiral arms brimming with stars—and red orbs where still-forming stars are encased in gas and dust. Examine them all: webbtelescope.pub/3SxNSaU

Here it is :) bsky.app/profile/dark...

A comparison between the fuzzy, fiery ring around the M87* black hole from April 2017 and April 2018, and the bright spot has shifted counterclockwise!

As the ring turns: our first results are out from the 2018 Event Horizon Telescope 🔭🧪 campaign, and the ring around the M87* black hole has shifted 30°! Congrats to the team! We're not entirely sure what it means but we have a few ideas, stay tuned for the Theory & Interpretation paper coming soon!

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#apod 2023-12-29
Shakespeare in Space
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231229.html

Ted Reifenstein, co-discoverer of the Crab pulsar through its giant radio pulses (and a Williams College and MIT alumnus), died this past summer.

Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat with green eyes. He has his front paws resting on a person's leg and looks at the camera very casually. His paws are very round.

i really like his face

Check out NANOGrav's newest contribution! Authored by yours truly 🙂

The cover of the Joy Division album "Unknown Pleasures." It features a white "stack plot" on a black background. The lines, which record data from a radio telescope, form what looks like a mountain range.

The image on the cover of the Joy Division album "Unknown Pleasures" is from a plot that radio astronomer Harold Craft made for his PhD dissertation, using data collected at Arecibo while studying the pulsar Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered OTD in 1967.🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬