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Engaging, accessible and fun: astronomy on social media

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Let’s discover all the secrets of astronomy dissemination on social media with Kirsten Banks

#astronomy #Australia #KirstenBanks #outreach #socialMedia

Engaging, accessible and fun: astronomy on social media

Let's discover all the secrets of astronomy dissemination on social media with Kirsten Banks
Claudia Mignone (EduINAF)
#Socialmedia #astronomy #Australia #KirstenBanks #outreach

DESI Looks 11 Billion Years Into the Past to Reveal Most Detailed View Ever of the Expanding Universe

https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2408/?lang

Using first-year data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Survey, astronomers have reported unprecedented measurements of #darkenergy and its effect on the expanding #Universe

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DESI Looks 11 Billion Years Into the Past to Reveal Most Detailed View Ever of the Expanding Universe - Using first-year data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Survey, astronomers have reported unprecedented measurements of dark energy and its

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is conducting a five-year survey to create the largest 3D map of the Universe ever. Astronomers are now performing initial analysis of the survey’s first-year data.
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Sirius: the coruscating jewel of the northern winter night sky 😍

Taken solely with my iPhone. See the following toot for details & have a go yourselves 🙂👍

#Astronomy #Astrodon #Space #SpaceScience #Photography #Astrophotography #LightPainting

#space #Photography #astronomy #astrophotography #Astrodon #spacescience #lightpainting

Happy birthday to #mathematician & #polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). As a young widow she made a name for herself when she won a silver medal in 1811 from the Military College at Marlow math journal. Wallace suggested she read Laplace & finding she understood it as well as her tutor her confidence increased, & she expanded her studies to #astronomy, chemistry, #geography, microscopy, electricity & magnetism.

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#printmaking #womeninstemm #linocut #sciart

#astronomy #sciart #linocut #printmaking #mathematician #geography #womeninstemm #polymath

You've heard of a sound echo: Sound bounces off of a surface and reflects back, causing a delay.

Did you know that light echos are also a thing? If there is a flash of light from something like a supernova, that light can hit interstellar clouds of dust and then reflect back, giving you light from the original supernova but on a delay.

We can use this delayed light to learn about what kind of star blew up in the supernova.

🎞️ https://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/video/ssc2008-09v2-dissecting-a-light-echo

#astronomy #space

Dissecting a Light Echo

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Thanks for all the lovely attention & comments on our NASA/ESA/CSA #JWST image of HH212 yesterday, & welcome to everyone newly following.

On this wet, windy Sunday afternoon, I thought I'd combine all four of our recently-released JWST Cycle 1 star formation images into one post & mini-thread.

Namely the short- & long-wavelength mosaics of the inner Orion Nebula & Trapezium Cluster, and the protostellar flows HH211 & HH212.

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#Astronomy #SpaceScience #Astrodon #StarFormation
A wide-field image of the inner Orion Nebula & Trapezium Cluster as seen at shorter near-infrared wavelengths (1-2.1 microns) by JWST. The image is predominantly blue due to ionised hydrogen, but there are regions of brown due to dust absorption and bright red due to emission from shocked & fluorescent molecular hydrogen. There are thousands of stars, brown dwarfs, & planetary-mass objects strewn across the region, centred on the Trapezium OB stars.
A wide-field image of the inner Orion Nebula & Trapezium Cluster as seen at slightly longer near-infrared wavelengths (2.7-5 microns) by JWST. The image is predominantly purple due to ionised hydrogen & green due to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, but there are regions of brown around the edges due to dust absorption and bright red due to emission from shocked & fluorescent molecular hydrogen. There are thousands of stars, brown dwarfs, & planetary-mass objects strewn across the region, centred on the Trapezium OB stars.
The protostellar outflow HH211 near the IC348 cluster in Perseus as imaged with JWST in the near-infrared (2-5 microns). The linear jet is purple and red due to shocked molecular hydrogen emission, with contributions also from carbon monoxide. There is some green reflection nebulosity along the flanks of the outflow, while the driving protostar is invisible at the centre. There are a few stars and some other molecular hydrogen emission strewn across the dark background.
The symmetric protostellar jet & outflow HH212 to the north-north-east of the Horsehead Nebula near the Belt of Orion as imaged in the near-infrared (2.1-5 microns) with JWST. The linear outflow comprises a series of knots and bowshocks on either side of the invisible driving protostar & is dominated by red/purple shocked molecular hydrogen emission. It is seen against a green nebular background of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission, & there are stars & many galaxies strewn across the background. Another pair of protostars with their own nebulae are seen near the lower end of the image.
#astronomy #jwst #Astrodon #spacescience #starformation

Morning.

Here it is, several thousand years in the making: the protostellar jet HH212 as seen in the infrared by #JWST.

We discovered this jet in 1993, glowing in the light of shocked molecular hydrogen at 2.12 microns, as gas emerges symmetrically at about 100 km/s from the two poles of a young protostar not far from the Horsehead Nebula in Orion.

Our new JWST image spans six wavelengths & is ten times sharper than any previous infrared image.

#Astronomy #SpaceScience #Astrodon

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#astronomy #jwst #Astrodon #spacescience

For #Spacetober prompt historic figures, the one & only Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). As a young widow she made a name for herself when she won a silver medal in 1811 from the Military College at Marlow math journal. Wallace suggested she read Laplace & finding she understood it as well as her tutor her confidence increased, & she expanded her studies to #astronomy, chemistry, #geography, microscopy, electricity & magnetism. 🧵1/n

#printmaking #womeninstemm #linocut #sciart #MastoArt
#MastoArt #astronomy #sciart #linocut #printmaking #geography #spacetober #womeninstemm

Well, isn’t that lovely: our JWST image of the inner Orion Nebula & Trapezium Cluster is today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day 🖖🙂🤘

Thanks to everyone who’s sharing the images & don’t forget that you can download them at full resolution under a CC BY-SA licence via the link in the next toot 👇

#Astronomy #Astrodon #APOD #SpaceScience #JWST #Orion #JuMBOs

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231010.html

APOD: 2023 October 10 – Hidden Orion from Webb

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
apod.nasa.gov
#astronomy #orion #jwst #Astrodon #apod #spacescience #jumbos

Stellarium

A realistic, real-time 3D simulation of the night sky. - Stellarium
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#space #flatpak #elearning #linuxgaming #astronomy #Libre #arch #rpm #deb #bin #flagship #shareyourgames #appim #Snap

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