#Astrophysics

Robert McNees

mcnees

Julius Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist best known for directing scientific work at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, was born #OTD in 1904. His important contributions to quantum mechanics, astrophysics,

John O'Meara

astronomeara

Sitting here in the never-ending Zoom meeting hellscape that work has become, I took a few minutes off to mull on something. About flagship missions and our ability to fund

sweet princess of Mithras ♥ AnnA ♥

SweetQueenAnna

Mystical Cosmology THREAD--Velikovsky, Kabbalah, Mithraism, and PIE myth-- Saturnian Cosmology refers to a collection of ideas that first originated from Immanuel Velikovsky. Essentially the key idea Velikovsky put forth was

Professor Joey Neilsen

joey_neilsen

Planet around a white dwarf!!! WHAT'S A WHITE DWARF? A thread.https://twitter.com/aussiastronomer/status/1306250152341110786 A white dwarf is the small, dense remnant of a small star that's reached the end of its normal

Akshat | Sarafina stan account

star_stufff

BLACK HOLES! A thread about the most fascinating and the most mysterious objects in the Universe! We will encounter their history, origin, how do they work and what happens if

Rebecca M✨

rebeccamwrites

i want the show where it's just Data teaching at the Academy, and his heartwarming struggle to be the best teacher he can be. Episode 1 - He takes on

Annelisa

annelisaaaaa

How it started vs. how it ended It’s finally tea time! This is the story of how I went from excited potential new member (PNM) stifled initiated sister

ela⁷

aobaprint

iwaoi social media au wherein oikawa agrees to take care of kuroo’s pet cat for the week, and said cat keeps ending up in oikawa’s neighbor’s apartment. ▸ iwaoi social

Brittany Kamai, PhD 🌏 (she/her)

cosmojellyfish

1/ I AM sTooOOoOkkeed about this latest LIGO result!Today’s #PhysicsFriday , I am going to talk about the result, how it connects with detectors and some rad accounts to follow

Dr Claudia Mignone

claudiascosmos

Today in the world of astrophysics we celebrate the 100th anniversary of an eclipse. But not just any eclipse. This one provided the first observational evidence to the theory we've

Flip Tanedo

FlipTanedo

For Filipino-American History Month, I'd like to highlight some awesome Filipinx scientists working in fundamental physics and adjacent fields. #FAHM @fanhs_nationalhttp://fanhs-national.org/filam/about/ This year @nip_upd graduat

Adam Tidball 🪐

AstrophysAdam

The sun shines because of fusion. It's in every middle school science book! So scientists must've been 100% sure of this fact for a long time, right?What if I told

SpaceDorito49 (commissions open)

SpaceDorito49

this will be a thread of solid lines from Candace Against The Universe eventually but for now here's a header.warning this will probably end up having spoilers It's- it's... Well,

PandemicPGRs

PandemicPGRs

[MEGATHREAD: BAME PGRs]Today, we’re working with the wonderful @pocsquared on our day of activism and awareness focusing on BAME PGRs. Our final day will follow the normal structure - highlighting

Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF)

PIFgov

Today we announce 34 NEW Presidential Innovation Fellows. These industry leaders & changemakers will serve as entrepreneurs in residence, collaborating w/ 22 federal agencies on 26 different #CivicTech projects to

Jari L. Javier

jarildy

Since it is #FF, in honor of #BlackInAstro I want to share my list of the awesome Black astronomers, physicists and ppl who do spacey stuff that I have