A cluster of blue stars is seen against a starfield of brown and clumpy dust. The stars illuminate some of the nearby dust which causes the dust to glow blue. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
🔭 Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster
Image Credit & Copyright: Kamil Fiedosiuk
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can't believe that our Sun chose to leave its birth cluster.
can't believe I have to spend my whole life in orbit around a hater.
A meme of a skeleton lifting captioned "my clustering algorithm is a machine that turns (picture of data) into (picture of data with clusters)"
don't know what we'd do without clustering algorithms
happy holidays!
may your stars be clustered ✨
and your isochrone fits perfect 👌
tfw your bae half-crops you out of the group pic on insta
my noble petition still stands. 70 grains removed so far 🫡
A meme of two people's arms shaking each other in agreement. One person is labelled "catalogs of open clusters". The other is labelled "maps of OB stars". They are agreeing on "doomed to be incomplete because of dust".
ok hear me out: what if we just removed all dust
(✨ guest submission ✨ by @alexis-space.bsky.social)
A meme depicting people having fun at a party. Someone labelled "Coma Ber" is standing in the corner, with the caption "nobody remembers that I'm the second nearest open cluster to the Sun".
make sure to think of Coma Ber this christmas 💔
screenshot of age assurance popup on bluesky
screenshot of 'my birthdate' and entering 1st January 1 AD, which actually worked (LOL)
wtf i was born 98.2±15 million years ago but Bluesky won't let me enter my birthday
A grainy picture of the ism, captioned "BAN H2 SELF SHIELDING: Make the ISM SUFFER"
A captioned picture of the dark cloud Barnard 68, that reads: "YO DARK CLOUD IS SO BIG that it has a free-fall collapse time of just 100,000 years"
it had better make a star cluster when it does 😠
A meme depicting two swear jars. The first swear jar, which is almost empty, is labelled "swear jar". The second, full swear jar, is called "Forgetting to add i+=1 to my while loops and wondering why they never end jar"
while i_cant_code:
print(silly_memes)
I just did this from memory and picked the lowest possible number I've seen to make it sound more tragic 😅
Everything would be better if the ISM was better
so sad. I found out today that the local star formation efficiency is just 8%.
that is such an awfully slow rate of converting the ISM (eww, icky) into star clusters. heartbreaking.
meme that says "Astronomers. is this a standard candle?"
Teaching is very serious business. In other news, I made this critical diagram during the class I was teaching today. Might have to put this into my next NSF proposal
Everyone always asks "where" are the open clusters, but never "how" are the open clusters 😤
I prefer it, no Av, no Rv, no E(B-V), just unfiltered access to the stars
this is what my favourite dust map would look like if dust didn't exist 😠
Interstellar Tedium (can't live without it)
A meme about struggling to choose between liking or hating the ISM
wait, what do you mean I need the ISM to make clusters
A three panel meme. Two men in cars are looking across from each other in the first two panels, with one labelled 'The cluster' and the other 'The poor runaway star ejected from it'. In the third panel, the two cars can be seen diverging from one another at an intersection.
O stars were made to be yeeted
✨ guest submission by @alexis-space.bsky.social
"I want to see the baby" scene screenshot from mando
A badly photoshopped pic of the Orion nebula on top of baby yoda
who else remembers this iconic scene from The Mandalorian? 🙏
context 😠
Three pictures of a sad-looking Pablo Escobar captioned with "someone said we're never going to find all the open clusters"
✨💔
I'd like to ask the magnetic field fans if they've considered the implications of star clusters 😤
A meme showing two Gustavos (the Breaking Bad character), smiling in the first panel but looking distressed in the second. The first panel is captioned "Thank you for your talk...", and the second "... but have you considered magnetic fields?"
🧲⚡
Two doors, one labelled "therapy" and the other "doomscrolling starcluster.meme". The therapy one is empty, the other is not...
average PhD student
Text on top of a picture of a dust cloud in space. It reads: "Interstellar Medium? More like Interstellar TEDIUM! I don't care about your A V or your R V JUST SHOW ME THE STARS"
petition to remove dust from the milky way
1 like = 1 dust grain removed