astro_jcm

astro_jcm, 6 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to Astronomy

1/4 "All those protoplanetary discs will be lost, like tears in a rain of ultraviolet photons."

Ok, it doesn't sound as cool as the actual quote, but still 😉

This tear-shaped object is a protoplanetary disc –the birthplace of planets around another star– observed with ESO's Very Large Telescope. Material from the disc is being stripped away by a bright star beyond the upper-right corner, outside of the field of view, hence this cometary shape.

📷 ESO/M. L. Aru et al.

#astronomy #science

astro_jcm, 7 days ago to photography

#SilentSunday #photography #wildlife #chile

astro_jcm, 5 days ago to random

sci-fi 🤝 interferometry

astro_jcm, 5 days ago to mastodon

The more I use @phanpy the more I love it. One of my favourite features is the catch-up tool, which allows you to fetch all posts within the last X hours and rank them however you want.

Oldest first is particularly useful to catch up with folks in very different timezones. You can also rank by number of replies, boosts... even by "density" of information (denser posts: longer ones or those with multimedia content). You can even group posts by author.

What a great #mastodon client!

astro_jcm, 5 days ago to random

me: "argh, I can't find the tab where I was editing this online document. Screw it, I'll open another tab."

two hours later:

astro_jcm, 9 days ago to chile

Soon the telescope platform at ESO's Paranal Observatory in #Chile will look very different at night: all four of the 8.2 m telescopes of the VLT will be equipped with lasers! This is one of the ongoing upgrades of the GRAVITY+ instrument, which will allow us to study black holes, stars and planets like never before.

Find out more in this great article by current and former ESO communication interns Elena Reiriz Martinez and Tom Howarth: https://www.eso.org/public/blog/gravity-leap-vlti/

#astrodon #astronomy #technology

mmontarges, 12 days ago to random French

Après 9 ans et demi de tentatives, me voici recruté en tant qu'astronome-adjoint à l'Observatoire de Paris : ne comptez pas sur moi pour cacher ma joie et mon bonheur. Quel honneur en plus d'être si bien entouré sur cette liste, bravo à toutes et à tous.

https://cnap.obspm.fr/

Grosse pensée aussi pour ceux qui ne sont pas là et dont on ne parle pas. Courage à vous.

ognimaeb, 18 days ago to Happy

Sometimes, staring into space pays off! 🤩
https://www.ukri.org/news/stfc-announces-latest-ernest-rutherford-fellows/
(Original cartoon by the amazing Tom Gauld)
#Happy #Science #Astronomy #AstroNerd #Success

astro_jcm, 17 days ago to Astro

One night at ESO's Extremely Large Telescope

https://youtu.be/ytVC8lBxNaU

🎥 B. Häußler/ESO

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography

harriorrihar, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random Spanish

Some #conceptart I did for #scavengersreign (3).
#Blender

astro_jcm, 18 days ago to ai

How did we go from "problem --> solution" to "here's a rock that somehow connects to the internet, it's $500 or $700 if you want it with #AI"

vicgrinberg, 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago) to random

Today I learned that in Greece you celebrate your name day by giving other people cake!

#AboutToday

astro_jcm, 23 days ago to internet

Paraphrasing Douglas Adams:

“But the Web mode was on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go to the 3 dots menu to find it.”

#internet #google

astro_jcm, 25 days ago to Astro

1/2 I still struggle getting used to the fact that the smallest mirrors of the Extremely Large Telescope are similar in size to the primary mirrors of many current telescopes!

The M5 – the fifth mirror in the optical path – has reached a key milestone: its blank, the piece that will be later polished, has been finalised.

#astrodon #astronomy #engineering #technology

https://youtu.be/xI1IBpTHVX8?si=RekXIDlOG30h4PQU