#Astronomers

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

Moudhy

Excited (and nervous) to give a Zoom lecture today to a 5th-grade class about astronomy in ancient Mesopotamia and its legacy! It’s impossible to talk about any aspect of scholarship

artemis

meteorlix

Day6 and their super cool physics references we should appreciate more: a thread. Starting with the upcoming cb: A gluon is a quantum, more specifically the exchange particle for the

Emily Hunt

emilydoesastro

Today is the first time EVER that the Nobel committee has awarded a physics prize to a woman astronomer/astrophysicist, and only the fourth time in 117 years that a woman

Nadia Drake

nadiamdrake

I need to set the record straight about something: Papa D designed and sent the 1974 Arecibo message. Carl Sagan was one of several folks he tested the message on,

astrotweeps: Emily (@emsque)

astrotweeps

Good morning y'all. Y’day I talked about SiC, the best-studied #PresolarGrains since they can be easily isolated from meteorites, by dissolving everything else away with acids (burn down haystack to

Christopher Berry

cplberry

Oooo! Exciting black hole news: a 70 solar mass black hole found in a binary in our Milky Way?https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1766-2Black holes this big aren't expected to form in environments like our

The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

IBJIYONGI

Meet Professor Barbara Williams, the first Black American woman to earn a PhD in astronomy/astrophysics. She earned her PhD in 1981 from University of Maryland. She retired from doing radio

sandygrains

sandygrains

People are extrapolating data and making graphs left, right, and center about how this disease should or should not spread, how we are or are not testing enough, whether the

schrödinger's cat.

nehathemartian

Hello lovely people! Today's thread is dedicated to the #NEOWISE comet! In this thread we'll be talking about its discovery, its physical structure and a few fun facts! Let's go!!

⭐Nereide🪐

Nereide

1/Astronomers detected elusive pulsation patterns in dozens of young, rapidly rotating #stars thanks to #data from #NASA's #TESS.Paperhttps://go.nature.com/3byk1rT Articlehttps://go.nasa.gov/2DAV4PY Image credit: NASA’s Godd

हठयोगी

hathyogi31

#Thread on Indian Astronomy. History of Indian astronomy has been stretched long from pre-historic times to modern time. Its evidences can be found in the dates of the period of

astrotweeps: Emily (@emsque)

astrotweeps

Let's nerd out about the LISA mission today!!! Are you excited, I am? LISA is a planned gravitational-wave detector in space. In SPACE! The three satellites orbits around the sun,

Intrellect

Intrellect

If religion is the thesis and science is the antithesis, what is the synthesis?"By measuring the number and luminosity of observable galaxies in the known universe, astronomers put current estimates

Green Bank Observatory

GreenBankObserv

HAPPY GBT DEDICATION DAY The GBT is the world's largest fully-steerable radio telescope. It is 485 feet tall and weighs 16 million pounds.1/ Let's go on a tour, starting at

Duane Hamacher

DuaneHamacher

I’m excited to announce that 5 #Asteroids have been named by @IAU_org in honour of #Aboriginal & #TorresStraitIslander elders, communities, & academics who have been instrumental in paving the way

James Thompson

JamesPsychol

Experts, intelligence, racehttp://www.unz.com/jthompson/experts-intelligence-race/ Academia makes a tradition out of slowness: the last survey on this matter was in 1988. By this reckoning the next survey will be in 2052. No