@melissa-hobson.bsky.social
Exoplanet astrophysicist. Currently a postdoc at Geneva Observatory, working on TESS follow-up with NIRPS and ESPESSO. She/her.
Figure 2 of Madhusudhan et al. 2025, with a straight horizontal line draw crossing the center of the figure, showing everything is consistent with that straight line.
Is the detection of a feature significant when even the model is consistent with a flat line? Might "we" be overinterpreting astrophysical data to get headlines? (rethorical question)🔭#exoplanets
17.04.2025 11:14 — 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0Shared some (highly skeptical) thoughts on today’s “habitable planet” #K218b news. Thank you @npr.org for the responsible reporting on this topic!
17.04.2025 06:46 — 👍 42 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 0
A brown and white bird is in a shallow bird bath with his feathers all clumped together and wet. Some small water droplets fly through the air behind it
Bath time!
(White-throated Sparrow) #birds 🌿
Horrendously unethical!
06.03.2025 11:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of the front and sides of a clay tablet that is a light grey colour with some darker discolouration patches throughout. It preserves around 15 lines of cuneiform text visible on the front and partially on the sides as well. The background is black
“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.”
This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time
Bowl featuring two astronauts in the foreground sitting on Mars at sunset waving at a rover that travels inside a canyon followed by its own tracks and looks back at them.
Bowl featuring two astronauts in the foreground sitting on Mars at sunset waving at a rover that travels inside a canyon followed by its own tracks and looks back at them. (Side)
Bowl featuring two astronauts in the foreground sitting on Mars at sunset waving at a rover that travels inside a canyon followed by its own tracks and looks back at them. (Detail of figures)
Custom bowl: a little family on Mars.
#pottery #sciart
(2/2) All the NPCs were really fun to roleplay, the hags were splendidly creepy, and I loved the scope of it - broad enough to give the players meaningful choices while still having clear goals and being contained in the temple. I liked how it rewarded investigating and talking to NPCs, too!
30.01.2025 20:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ran it 1.5yr ago (as part of Candlekeep-as-campaign with Grazzt as behind the scenes overarching BBEG, @sierkdoesscience below was a player) - super fun! Made it a first-arc endpoint, rescuing the wizard from the 1st adventure, Saeth escaping to become a delightfully annoying recurring villain. 1/2
30.01.2025 20:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0all jwst images this time 😌
23.01.2025 06:07 — 👍 52 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
The MEME2025 Exhibition is already around the corner! We have switched things up a bit this year: we will open the doors to the exhibition already next Monday at 4 pm CET and keep them open all the way until our closing ceremony on Friday‼️ This way you have all week to vote for your favorite memes 🪐
22.01.2025 20:27 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The skies above Paranal are at risk from a proposed industrial megaproject.
This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/
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📷 ESO/P. Horálek
Would you like to help astronomers name a (quasi)moon around earth?
I teamed up with panelists around the world to whittle 2,700+ name suggestions down to just 7!
And you can vote for your favorite until January 1st. Visit radiolab.org/quasi-moon to #NameThatQuasiMoon!
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
This is a composite image of star cluster NGC 602, in vibrant and festive colors. The shape of the star cluster strongly resembles a holiday wreath. The cluster includes a giant dust cloud ring, shown in greens, yellows, blues, and oranges. The green hues and feathery edges of the ring cloud create the appearance of a wreath made of evergreen boughs. Hints of red representing X-rays provide shading, highlighting layers within the wreath-like ring cloud. The image is aglow with specks and dots of colorful, festive light, in blues, golds, whites, oranges, and reds. These lights represent stars within the cluster. Some of the lights gleam with diffraction spikes, while others emit a warm, diffuse glow. Upon closer inspection, many of the glowing specks have spiraling arms, indicating that they are, in fact, distant galaxies. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC; Infrared: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Zeilder, E.Sabbi, A. Nota, M. Zamani; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand
OH MY GOD!! WE HAVE THE COMBINED WEBB AND CHANDRA VIEW OF NGC 602!! IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL 🤩🌌
17.12.2024 19:09 — 👍 664 🔁 108 💬 17 📌 12
Jewelry inspired by the primary mirror of JWST
✨#JWST jewelry giveaway time! 🤩
Available to win are 3 of my best-selling #JWST jewelry pieces! ✨
💫 How to participate:
1) follow me
2) enter here sciencesocks.com/giveaway
3) like & repost
🚨 P.S.: please consider sciencesocks.com for your holiday gifts this year :)
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This is fantastic 😂 (and completely accurate)
18.11.2024 21:29 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
