Picture of the great refractor. They are looking at Jupiter and you could see all 4 Galilean moons.
Picture of the great refractor. They are looking at Jupiter and you could see all 4 Galilean moons.
MUSE astronomers (our ver last Consortium gathering) going really old school looking through the telescope that discovered the ISM and laid some of the foundations of adaptive optics (the great refractor in Potsdam).
Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
Listening to Moya Brennan in rememberance today. Her album Two Horizons got me through studying for my prelims in my first year in the US.
A halftime show at the World Cup Final?!?! No, no, no. It disrupts the game. US already making this the worst World Cup (and that is after Russia and Qatar)
If you see this, quote skeet with a screenshot from a video game that released the year you were born.
Hey, I played this, even...
Nah, it's also missing service in the rest of the world. 😒.
Today humans have been the farthest away from Earth, they have ever been. Good job, congratulations and let's keep that spirit of exploration alive. Driven by curiosity, not by delusions of might.
Project Hail Mary movie. Amaze, Amaze, Amaze!
In Guatemala, of course you go to the coffee plantation as kids. Having weird coffee opinions ("robusta is good, actually, it's not just all arabica") as a 12 year old. Good times.
I think I was co-I on a proposal that went 4th -> 2nd -> 1st (no time) HST proposal, before falling to 4th quartile the next year (really thought we were due!) 🫠
I get a birth certificate, since "hell" means light in German.
Only in German can you say "die in hell" in a perfectly normal conversation, e.g. to a shoesalesperson.
The first one is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The original Hubble Deep Field has the characteristic WFPC2 shape and two relatively bright white elliptical galaxies in the center and north center. 😁
Ras and decs
RAdiation Scattering
Research Assistant Scholarship
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Besides the obvious Royal thingie.
Can't help but notice the selection committee for this award
Continuum-subtracted MgII pseudo-narrowband image example (gray color scale) and HST F814W images (blue color scale, probing the stellar light) of the final sample of galaxies that exhibit a P-Cygni profile in MgII, as well as a significant detection of extended MgII emission.
All thanks to the 3D outflow model that Ismael developed, which lets us identify the outflow properties based on the absorption / emission properties of MgII doublet in 3D. An example:
Using SED fitting we find:
(a) Galaxies with MgII outflows tend to have higher (specific) star formation rates and younger stellar populations—consistent with SF-driven winds.
(b) We also identify a trend between M* and central optical depth and an anti-correlation with opening angle.
I totally forgot to post about this new paper that my colleague Ismael Pessa recently got accepted. Remember when we were totally happy when we detected MgII in emission around galaxies in one object or via stacking? Well, now we make statistics on 47 individual galaxies!
arxiv.org/abs/2602.11280
Wie weit erstreckt sich die Andromeda-Galaxie über den Nachthimmel, wenn man ihren ausgedehnten Halo aus Gas sehen könnte? Diese Frage und mehr beantwortet Dr. Ramona Augustin in ihrem Vortrag innerhalb der Reihe Virtuelle #BabelsbergerSternennächte ✨ Jetzt online:
youtu.be/59-Ft3DYITs
This is devastating for Carl’s family, and for his IPAC friends and colleagues. We are all shocked and saddened. His contributions to exoplanets and infrared science and the astronomy community will not be forgotten. 💔
The more obscure ones, not so sure about this, because I saw a lot late 90s in the theater, but most remain obscure.
Memento (2000)
Lola rennt (1998)
Jackie Brown (1997)
The Craft (1996)
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
E.T. (1983) - forever thankful at my mom that she took me at 4.5 years old
Jurassic Park (1993) - that scene where they are with their mouth open, that was the theater.
Titanic (1997) - happy to be part of the crowd.
The Matrix (1999) - went in without knowing what it was about.
Um, so the 2026 Oscars DO have a sense of humor.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxpj...
George Efstathiou giving the AIP colloquium.
I am back in the same room as yesterday. This time listening to cosmology eminence George Efstathiou at the @aippotsdam.bsky.social colloquium speculating whether Dark Energy evolves (probably not).
David Hogg has written a white paper on doing astrophysics in the age of LLMs. It looks to be thought-provoking. My initial reaction is that either LLMs will destroy the field or they will force a reckoning with and re-imagining of the current system that often prioritizes output over quality. 🧪