The aurora borealis lighting up the sky with colours of red. Taken from under a tree with trees on the horizon.
As before, but no person standing in the frame.
The aurora, but the curtains are clear. Shades of red and green are in the sky. A few stars are visible through the aurora.
Not a bad start to the year for observing.
Thank you! I'm working as a postdoc now in Madrid at the Centro de Astrobiolgía.
Turned to researching galaxy clusters!
But seriously, it was an amazing 4 years working with @vrooje.net on galaxy interaction and galaxy evolution.
Congrats to those who graduated at the same time as me: @izgarland.bsky.social, Jamie Dumayne, Heather Wade, Tom Cornish and Pascale Desmet. They're already doing amazing things!
Me in front of the Lancaster University Physics building.
Me and my family in front of the Lancaster University logo.
Myself and my brother, cheering with glasses of wine.
Me on the stage approaching the chancellor to accept my PhD award.
PhD? Completed mate.
3 PhD graduands, izzy on the left, david in the middle, jamie on the right. They are all wearing silly black cushion hats, and red and grey robes
I finally graduated! Ft @davidoryan.bsky.social and Jamie Dumayne
Photo credit: Brenda Limón
An image of the UI of the ESASky platform. It shows the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys imaging of a merger. The papers referencing the merger have been added to the UI, showing the name and the titles of about 7 papers which have used data about this merger.
Sure! Using the coordinates, I pulled it up in ESASky and can see it's a little bit famous - got 7 papers written with it included.
It's formal name is COSMOS2015 0823417, but I do prefer the ring of 'The BlueSky merger'
Hi!
Could I be added to this list as well? I am an astrophysicist who just started working at the Centro de Astrobiología in Madrid.
My proof is from my previous institute (Lancaster University):
www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/pe...
And my ORCiD:
0000-0003-1217-4617
The jellyfish galaxy ESO 137-001. It is a galaxy with spiral arms, with long blue tendrils of gas falling behind it's disk as it moves. It is surrounded by various foreground stars. Image from Wikipedia on Jellyfish Galaxies.
They are important laboratories for understanding the relation between gas, star formation, and ram pressure stripping in the most extreme environments in the universe.
(HST image of ESO 137-001 for reference)
In my project, the plan is to look for so-called jellyfish galaxies with machine learning.
These are galaxies in extremely dense environments, where their internal gas is being stripped into long tendrils behind them (looking like a jellyfish).
Are you a student and fancy working at the European Space Agency for 6 months? The internship program is looking for applications!🧪🔭
Come work with me and the data science team in Madrid looking for anomalous galaxies in the Hubble Space Telescope and Euclid archives.
jobs.esa.int/job/Madrid-I...
Thanks for flagging! Only happened once and then seems to have gone back to normal...
I have a feeling it's the actual image database going down - not what we control. Will try to find a work around.
Ah, that errors a new one... Thanks for letting me know! I ll have a look and see if I can get it working this evening
A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 34 volunteers.
A spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.
It is at redshift 0.018 (lookback time 257.3 million years) with coordinates (193.22333, 9.98924).
34 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.
Over 1k followers off of the quote skeet(?)! That's jumped like 700 in a day, I think
True, I'm not sure what's happened there 🤔
It has to be coming from the GZ archives, so it is the original image shown to volunteers.
Thank you!! It needed your ideas to get made and @vrooje.bsky.social catalogue to work 😁 definitely a team effort!
Perfecto!
Perfect! 😊
Now, how to add emojis to the post data... 🤔
True, it feels like a lot posting every hour at the moment. So, I'm considering reducing it to every 3rd hour tomorrow morning.
With posting to the Astro feed, Im going to try to get it to repost there once or twice a day. Will need some tinkering and time to figure out though!
A barred spiral galaxy in a merger from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project.
A barred spiral galaxy in a merger, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.
It is at redshift 0.039 (lookback time 549.698 million years) with coordinates (316.18698, -0.21580).
This classification was made in the Galaxy Zoo 2 project.