ESO
@esoastronomy@mastodon.social
The European Southern Observatory designs, builds & operates world-class observatories on the ground for the benefit of society. #astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
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Over 70% complete, our ELT is glowing in the #sunset light of the Atacama Desert in #Chile, surrounded by massive cranes hard at work to get this telescope up and running.
With the first light planned for the end of the decade, the ELT and its groundbreaking 39-metre main mirror will take on some of the biggest challenges in #astronomy and, ultimately, help us understand our place in the #Universe.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2617a/
📷 ESO/G. Vecchia
#astrodon #astrophysics #space #science
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Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
Social oncologist. I make small things. Unapologetically anti-genocide. Warning: May not fit your taxonomy. From Gaza? If you need to get verified, please go here: https://gaza-verified.org/join/ Want to donate to people in Gaza? Please see https://gaza-verified.org/donate/ My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) 🍉🌻 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #tech #privacy #humanRights #personhood #democracy #aral #fedi22 #searchable
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Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
Social oncologist. I make small things. Unapologetically anti-genocide. Warning: May not fit your taxonomy. From Gaza? If you need to get verified, please go here: https://gaza-verified.org/join/ Want to donate to people in Gaza? Please see https://gaza-verified.org/donate/ My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) 🍉🌻 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #tech #privacy #humanRights #personhood #democracy #aral #fedi22 #searchable
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@franco_vazza/116459049191900624
Friends in Gaza, please tell people you might know who could take advantage of this.
#Gaza #GazaVerified #Palestine #physics #astrophysics #science #research #university
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***PLEASE SPREAD IF YOU CAN***
my Physics & Astro department in Bologna (Italy) just opened a call
for 2 contracts for 1 year (24kE) for young researchers from #Palestine:
https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/incarichi-di-ricerca?id_bando=162
Deadline: 15/06/2026
Eligibility: young scholars in Physics/Geo/Astro citizens of Palestine, refugees from Palestine, refugees residing in Palestine, or holders of a permanent residence permit or international protection in Palestine
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A new cosmic test has finally, with CMB and large-scale structure data, become realistic: using the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect to test dark matter vs. MOND. Guess who wins?
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/dark-matter-new-cosmic-test-mond-fails/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark
#stem #science #space #astrophysics #cool
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ESO
@esoastronomy@mastodon.social
The European Southern Observatory designs, builds & operates world-class observatories on the ground for the benefit of society. #astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
mastodon.social
This isn't a scene from Star Wars.
What you're looking at is the Tarantual Nebula, and those beams come from the lasers installed on the telescopes of our Very Large Telescope Interferometer in #Chile. They create artificial stars 90 km above the ground to correct atmospheric turbulence, allowing the VLTI to observe faint targets.
But why are four telescopes observing the same target? Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2616a/
📷 A. Berdeu/ESO
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
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Elena @ ELabArts
@elabarts@mastodon.social
Science illustrator who works directly with scientists on building their next figures. *new to mastodon!* find me on instagram @elabarts and bluesky @elabarts.bsky.social #scienceillustration #geology #sciencecommunications
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Elena @ ELabArts
@elabarts@mastodon.social
Science illustrator who works directly with scientists on building their next figures. *new to mastodon!* find me on instagram @elabarts and bluesky @elabarts.bsky.social #scienceillustration #geology #sciencecommunications
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@elabarts@mastodon.social
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Apr 15, 2026
Some of my favorite graphics from @Newsela were simple ones showing a simple phenomenon.
#scienceillustration #education
#geology #physics #sciencefigures #astrophysics
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ESO
@esoastronomy@mastodon.social
The European Southern Observatory designs, builds & operates world-class observatories on the ground for the benefit of society. #astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
mastodon.social
Taxi, please! 🚖👋
ALMA consists of 66 antennas that work together like a single gigantic telescope in the Chilean Andes. They can be rearranged in different layouts to discern various levels of detail.
This is where these yellow trucks come in. Each truck can carry a 100-tonne antenna and put it in place with a precision of a few millimetres!
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2615a/
📷 S. Otarola/ESO
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
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The "past hypothesis" problem questions why, if entropy always increases, the hot Big Bang began with such a low amount of it. That's another puzzle solved by cosmic inflation
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/cosmic-inflation-past-hypothesis/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark
#stem #science #space #astrophysics #cool
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Francesca Bo.
@astrodisastro@scicomm.xyz
Crazy old #physics of the #universe / #astrophysics MSc + #Science #Communication #SciComm diploma. Obsessed by #birds and #blazars. Unemployed with no future ahead. From #Italy, of course.
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Francesca Bo.
@astrodisastro@scicomm.xyz
Crazy old #physics of the #universe / #astrophysics MSc + #Science #Communication #SciComm diploma. Obsessed by #birds and #blazars. Unemployed with no future ahead. From #Italy, of course.
scicomm.xyz
@astrodisastro@scicomm.xyz
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Apr 08, 2026
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ehtelescope/116365375880098666
Perfino quell'upupa ha una carriera scientifica migliore della mia
Even that hoopoe has a better scientific career than me
#birb #upupa #uccelli #astrofisica #BuchiNeri #eht #hoopoe #birds #astrophysics #BlackHoles #BirdsOfMastodon
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This feathered visitor recently stopped by the IRAM 30-m telescope to assist with EHT observations.
The bird had gotten lost in the fog and appeared at the control room door- more than 1,500 meters above its usual habitat.
After a brief "internship," it was safely released back into nature the next morning.
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It takes just over three seconds to read a typical sentence. In that tiny flash of time, the Universe has changed in tiny but mighty ways. On cosmic timescales, that really adds up
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/universe-changed-time-finish-sentence/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark
#stem #science #space #astrophysics #awkward
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hbrpgm
@hbrpgm@adalta.social
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📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/jcSbCkVcLa7e9nm3K2BTuh 🔗 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷 🔗 ℹ️
Die rasante Dämpfung eines 10 Milliarden Jahre alten Supermassengrauens stellt etablierte kosmische Theorien in Frage.
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Most galaxies are spirals, with ellipticals and lenticulars making up the next most common types. But peculiar galaxies reveal the in-between steps, showing how modern galaxies are made
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/peculiar-galaxies-beauty-cosmic-violence/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark
#stem #science #space #astrophysics #interesting
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Our Universe was once ruled by radiation and matter, but those densities eventually dilute. Would spatial curvature appear? Even if so, dark energy now flattens the Universe once again
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/dark-energy-curve-universe-time/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark
#stem #science #space #astrophysics #awkward
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It's 2026. There still isn't a hole in the Universe, and the famous picture they always show when describing it doesn't have anything to do with the Universe at all
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/hole-in-universe/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark
#stem #science #space #astrophysics
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In 2013, NASA's Spitzer observed PMR 1, finding a structure that resembles a human brain. Today, JWST actually resolves the Exposed Cranium Nebula, revealing what's inside
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/jwst-dying-star-exposed-cranium/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark
#stem #science #space #astrophysics #weird
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Light and gravitational waves redshift, sure, as they travel through the expanding Universe. But do those signals degrade and deteriorate, and if so, what do we lose?
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/signals-degrade-space/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark
#stem #science #space #astrophysics #interesting
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Here on Earth, notions like "where" and "when" are easy to practically define and use. But in space, particularly at cosmic distances, Einstein gives us a whole lot more to think about
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/einstein-revolutionized-where-when/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark
#stem #science #space #physics #astrophysics #interesting
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ESO
@esoastronomy@mastodon.social
The European Southern Observatory designs, builds & operates world-class observatories on the ground for the benefit of society. #astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
mastodon.social
Two's company ⭐️⭐️
Just like we humans are strongly influenced by the presence of companions over the course of our lives, so are stars, literally.
The pair of points at the centre of this image, taken with our VLT, are an old stellar couple known as AFGL 4106.
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2608a/
📷 ESO/G. Tomassini et al.
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
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https://www.ufofeed.com/209047/why-we-explore-a-love-letter-to-caltechs-mars-and-the-mind-of-man-oc/ Why We Explore: A love letter to CalTech’s ‘Mars and the Mind of Man’ [OC] #Astrobiology #Astrophysics #Cosmology #PlanetaryScience #Space #SpaceExploration
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Was Einstein a lone genius who succeeded because he bucked the establishment? Without the help he got from his contemporaries, he never would have discovered all he did
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/einstein-lone-genius/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark
#stem #science #history #physics #astrophysics #spiffy
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https://www.ufofeed.com/208279/oldest-moon-rocks-found-on-the-lunar-farside/ Oldest Moon Rocks Found On The Lunar Farside #Astrobiology #Astrophysics #Cosmology #PlanetaryScience #Space #SpaceExploration #SpacePorn
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