I’m just an astrobot nothing to see here
07.03.2026 01:46
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☀️ Save the date: Join us 9–14 August in Baltimore, Maryland for the 57th meeting of the AAS Solar Physics Division (SPD).
We look forward to bringing the solar physics community together for a week of science and collaboration. Additional details will be announced soon:
aas.org/meetings/spd57
*stares in 6’ 5”*
James Webb Space Telescope spots faint asteroid 2024 YR4
☄️ Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon in 2032!
New observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed that the object will pass safely at a distance of more than 20 000 km.
(Pic: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. Micheli (ESA NEOCC)
question for the astronomy hive mind, does anyone have a J band spectrum for the white dwarf standard HZ 4? will offer
- a beer or coffee at the next conference if there's a reference I've missed,
- coauthorship and eternal gratitude if failing that anyone can take a spectrum
I can't say enough about #JWST (which I'd link if they had an account?) and the folks at @stsci.edu, who made the faintest-ever observations of a solar system object a breeze, using only about 5 hours of integration on each of two observing sessions. 2/
While we wait for additional pieces to gain various approvals, I want to shout out some folks: Marco Micheli, Julien de Wit, Artem Burdanov, and Dave Tholen, who performed independent positional measurements, Bryan Holler for image processing, and Davide Farnocchia for orbit determination. 1/
The space-based telescopes Hubble and Euclid combined forces to capture a dying star in stunning new detail
I want to repeat comments I already made on this plot since some news outlets seem to ignore them: Hubble will not reenter until early 2030s. The curve here is alarming, but will flatten out as we hit solar minimum in the coming years. I still think it's time for NASA to take action on a reboost.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that babies love bubbles 🔭🧪
🚨 Action Alert: Take action to support the sciences by filling out a constituent request form with one or more of your members of Congress. This is one of the most effective ways to make your voice heard! aas.org/posts/action... 🔭
A large bi-polar nebula with the left side being brighter. Mostly blue nebula.
Cha IR nebula with #JWST 🔭 NIRCam (F300M, F460M).
program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...
#nebula #astronomy #starformation
The AAS Education Committee announces its new report, “The Landscape of Undergraduate #Astronomy and Astrophysics Degree Requirements,” available now on arXiv. aas.org/posts/news/2... 🔭
A baby sunlike star blowing a bubble of hot gas called an “astrosphere” was captured for the first time by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory
Some context—even with this drop in altitude projections still have HST viable until >2030 🔭 #astrosci
🚦 Signal out? Report it to 311!
We have some signals out and have crews dispatched. Help us identify other broken traffic signals by reporting them to 311.
TV’s haunted
Super proud of my brilliant Honours student @katelynsmith.bsky.social with her first-author debut on arXiv today: arxiv.org/abs/2602.18085
Europeans - look out for her starting her PhD in Amsterdam!
JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.
as far as i can tell “bio hacking” is just a goofy term for giving yourself some combination of an eating disorder and a drug addiction
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
(Published Dec. 2025)
BREAKING NEWS: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, reports say.
Well, FUCK. Here I was excited for my first grant as a faculty member…
“White House Withholds Funding for NASA Science Missions Despite Recent Budget Bill”
NASA has been forced to pause funds for Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other missions until further notice.
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gizmodo.com/white-house-...
Breaking WSJ:
The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
Just a reminder that I'm hiring! Looking for an engineer/research for some fun projects (some building! some designing!)
Come build spectrographs at UW.
Yellow trading card about Marina Pavlovic, Rubin Summit Support Scientist. Her full feature is available at rubinobservatory.org/explore/voices.
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Purple trading card about Louise Edwards, a physics professor and astrophysicist. Her full feature is available at rubinobservatory.org/explore/voices.
Teal trading card about Fernanda Urritia, Rubin education and outreach team member. Her full feature is available at rubinobservatory.org/explore/voices.
Get to know some of our staff and scientists through Rubin Voices!
Each feature introduces you to someone helping make NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory a reality.
Bonus: each one includes a trading card, so you can start your Rubin collection. Can you collect them all? 🔭🧪
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Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
We'll also shortly be advertising a PhD position alongside this postdoc - so if you or anyone you know wants to do a PhD project on this please get in touch!
“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
