Welcome to #SciArtSeptember! For day 1: starry, it’s #astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), who discovered what stars are made of & that hydrogen & helium are the most common elements in the universe.⁠
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Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College Cambridge in 1919 where she heard a lecture which changed her life. 🧵1/n
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#linocut #physics #sciart #printmaking #womenInSTEM #astrophysics #astronomer #MastoArt

It’s remarkable what astrophotographers can capture from their back yard. Lauren Hughes @WestwoodAstro took this photo of the Pinwheel Galaxy M101 from his driveway

Note he captured a supernova, which he has labelled SN 2023ixf

Original post https://astrodon.social/@WestwoodAstro/110437683717032817

#Astronomy #Astrophotography #ClearSkies #AstroTuesday #Astrodon #Astronomer #AstronomyMastodon

Indian Institute of Astrophysics director Prof Annapurni Subramaniam said ISRO has more interstellar missions in the pipeline, including a mission to the sun next month and the closest planet Venus
#Chandrayaan-3Success #Km #TouchdownStillDaunting #Astronomer
https://www.news18.com/india/confident-of-chandrayaan-3-success-but-last-30-km-before-touchdown-still-daunting-senior-astronomer-8543025.html

#OnThisDay #Helium was discovered (1868) by French #Astronomer Jules Janssen during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India.

Birth Anniversary of French #Virologist Luc Montagnier (1932). He received #NobelPrize for discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (#HIV).

Happy Birthday #Actor Robert Redford (1936).

https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

#inspiring #goodnews #songoftheday

since we can´t find much QUEEN on Mastodon, lets add

🎥🎵➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB3RbO7updc

= #BohemianRhapsody at a #TEDtalk

dedicating it to

#Astronomer
#scientist
#philanthroph
AND #Rockstar

#SirDrBrianMay´s recent BIRTHDAY

and add an article found by @TheMetalDog (thank you!):

➡️ https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1785779/Bohemian-Rhapsody-2-Brian-May-Freddie-Mercury

#Queen are #givingback a lot to #fans & #communities, even today. #BrianMay

#yesWEAID #humanitarian #liveunited #TEDtalk #tunetuesday #wewillrockyou #news

Happy birthday to #astronomer Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies & evolution of our universe! Nobel committee waited 3 years after she died to reward another for the theory of dark matter.

She found 6 months mat leave post MSc very difficult being
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#printmaking #sciart #linocut #womenInSTEM #MastoArt

This Is Just To Say

I have fit
the spectra
that were in
the to-do list

and which
I was probably
procrastinating
on for months

Forgive me
they were low-counts
so soft
and so old

#Astrodon #Astronomy #Astronomer #AcademicChatter

Happy birthday to American #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. In her day, women scientists were regularly hired to do menial chores like counting images on photographic plates as a "computer". In studying these plates, in 1908 she was able to deduce a ground-breaking theory, which allowed Hubble's later insight about the age and expansion of the universe.
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#linocut #printmaking #MastoArt #WomenInSTEM #sciart #histstm #astronomy #constellation

Scientists Are Hunting for #Alien Objects in the #Ocean, And They've Found Something
A team including #Harvard #astronomer #AviLoeb may have just found a trace of an interstellar object, which Loeb believes could be alien in origin. Loeb is optimistic that the crew will identify pieces of #Interstellar Meteor 1 (#IM1), a mysterious half-ton object that struck Earth nearly a decade ago, which he thinks could be an artifact, or “technosignature,” from an alien civilization. https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wwam/scientists-are-hunting-for-alien-objects-in-the-ocean-and-theyve-just-found-something

2023 #introduction update:

I write about #FreeCulture and #OpenSource software for #FilmMaking and #Animation -- especially.

Also working on what I call a #FreeSoftware #VirtualStudio.

See my "Production Log" at https://lunaticsproject.org for that stuff.

Once an #Astronomer with a focus on #BioAstronomy.

Live in TX w/ wife, 2/3 of my adult kids & 3 cats.

This is my *personal* account, where I am bit more free with my opinions. I also have a *professional* account at @TerryHancock@m.filmfreedom.net .

#OnThisDay The Human #Genome Project announced the completion of a "rough draft" sequence (2000).

Birth Anniversary of #French #Astronomer Charles Messier (1730) - most notable for publishing an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and star clusters.

Today is International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

An amateur #astronomer spotted a new #supernova remarkably close to #Earth
https://www.popsci.com/science/supernova-near-earth-astronomy/

Do you know how to harness the power of Apache Airflow with CrateDB?

Learn it step-by-step in this first article of its series by Niklas Schmidtmer and Marija Selaković from CrateDB's Customer Engineering team 👩🏻‍💻👨🏼‍💻

Read it here 👇🏼
https://hubs.ly/Q01QFZcL0

#apacheairflow #queries #astronomer #cratedb #cloud #db #database

A team of #researchers, including #climatologists and an #astronomer, has utilized an enhanced #computermodel to recreate the #iceagecycles that occurred between 1.6 and 1.2 million years ago. The findings indicate that the #glacialperiods were primarily influenced by #astronomicalforces in quite a different way than it works in the present day.

https://scitechdaily.com/cosmic-clockwork-the-outer-space-origin-of-ice-age-cycles/

Samuel #Durrance, who as an #astronomer was one of the first non-career #astronauts to fly with NASA after the loss of space shuttle Challenger, has died at the age of 79: http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-050523a-astronaut-samuel-durrance-obituary.html - on the space shuttle flight STS-35 Durrance spent nearly nine days in orbit in December 1990 conducting round-the-clock observations using the four Astro-1 telescopes that were mounted on a Spacelab pallet in Columbia's payload bay.

Aliens!!!!! It has to be aliens, right?

WRITER FUEL:

Astronomers have discovered an entirely new ring system within the solar system, and it's located at such a great distance from its dwarf planet parent that it should be impossible.

https://www.limfic.com/2023/04/06/writer-fuel-astronomers-discover-impossible-ring-around-a-dwarf-planet/

#Astronomy #Astronomer #Space #DwarfPlanet #RingedPlanet #SolarSystem #WriterFuel

🔍Why is our service called #Edmond?

Well, the first #datacollection in Edmond was a set of images of the nucleus of the comet Halley.☄️
Therefore, the repository was named after Edmond Halley (1656-1742), an #astronomer best known for computing the orbit of the #HalleysComet.

https://www.pbs.org/video/how-calculate-time-islamic-astrolabe-te8egf/

#astronomy
#islam
#sufism
#solartime
#astronomer

Worth Watching

Star Chasers of Senegal

https://www.pbs.org/video/star-chasers-of-senegal-afutrx/

#senegal
#astronomy
#islam
#sufism
#solartime
#astronomer

356400 km 👀

Spotted on the odometer of my eighteen years-old car.
That's the distance of closest approach of the Moon, the Perigee 🌍<=>🌖

#astronomy #astronomer #apsis #earth #moon #orbit #car #cars #bmw #325i #automobile #automobiles