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Tessa Vernstrom @tvern23.bsky.social · Sep 25

You are amazing all you do, sounds exhausting but amazing

Tessa Vernstrom @tvern23.bsky.social · Sep 20

That’s a good list but don’t forget about the housing crash and recession of 08 right as we were finishing college

Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Sep 19

A lot of people ask me how I stay level headed with everything that’s happening like I didn’t grow up when Bush stole an election, failed to stop 9/11, launched two bullshit wars and Homeland Security, got caught doing straight up torture, and Katrina where Black people were abandoned & then hunted.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

Tessa Vernstrom @tvern23.bsky.social · Sep 20

I would watch the shit out of that

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Tessa Vernstrom @tvern23.bsky.social · Jul 19

Ok totally wish I’d thought to do this

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Tessa Vernstrom @tvern23.bsky.social · Jul 19

😆 I did a trip recently ONLY two flights and longest was ONLY 11 hours I was like omg piece of cake. just be sure to sleep, those flights usually get in like 8am Sydney time, you get good sleep on the plane you then you’re on the right time when you land helps heaps.

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Tessa Vernstrom @tvern23.bsky.social · Jul 6

@bot.astronomy.blue signup

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Tessa Vernstrom @tvern23.bsky.social · Jul 2

America is so so so depressing, I’ve applied for Australian citizenship and was told I’d hear in June but nothing . Plead let me hear soon.

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Tessa Vernstrom @tvern23.bsky.social · Jul 2

I’m trying to grow poblanos in WA Australia and it’s not going well others tell me I have chills thrips, tried neem oil but still new growth still looks weird 🌱🌱🌱

Tessa Vernstrom @tvern23.bsky.social · Jul 2

How do we post to the Astrosci feed ? If not 🔭?

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Tessa Vernstrom @tvern23.bsky.social · Jul 2

The entire of America is falling into a dark cesspool of despair but my concern today was why was vizier down all day!? 🔭

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Dr Adam McMaster @adammc.space · Jun 20

A huge cloud of energised particles (known as a radio halo) revealed in new radio observations of a galaxy cluster 5 billion light years away. It’s the largest one ever seen, 20 million light years across 🧪🔭 scitechdaily.com/invisible-st...

Invisible Storm Lights Up Galaxy Cluster With Record-Breaking Radio Glow

A vast, glowing halo enveloping a galaxy cluster has been discovered, defying expectations and pointing to turbulent cosmic forces as its power source.

scitechdaily.com

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Tessa Vernstrom @tvern23.bsky.social · Jun 10

Signed but 😢

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The Planetary Society @planetarysociety.bsky.social · Jun 9

Our global petition to save NASA science closes this Thursday, and we’re just shy of 15,000 signatures! Every name counts, this petition will be hand-delivered to members of Congress. Add yours today, Save NASA Science.
planet.ly/petition

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · May 31

More here.

Chandra and Fermi also gone. Probes cancelled (so much work for nothing).

Hard to fathom why any sane person would do this, and hoping that there is a sane majority in Congress.

SpaceNews @spacenewsinc.bsky.social · May 30

NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands

NASA released more details about its proposed fiscal year 2026 budget May 30, canceling dozens of science missions and cutting thousands of jobs.

NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands

NASA released more details about its proposed fiscal year 2026 budget May 30, canceling dozens of science missions and cutting thousands of jobs.

spacenews.com

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Brett Morris @brettmorr.is · May 29

Watch the solar plasma curve along magnetic field lines like iron filings near a bar magnet. #stellarastro 🧪🔭

This work was funded in part by NSF.

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · May 29

Ziteng (Andy) Wang @zitengwang.bsky.social tells the story behind the discovery of this unusual long period transient, in his article for @aunz.theconversation.com.

theconversation.com/x-rays-have-...

#RadioAstronomy #AstroSci

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia @pasajournal.bsky.social · May 25

Recently published in PASA: "WALLABY pilot survey: Spatially resolved gas scaling relations within the stellar discs of nearby galaxies", Lee, S. et al. This is Figure 4. To read the paper visit doi.org/10.1017/pasa...

$Scaling relations of the global Hi mass fraction (top row) and Hi mass fraction within R25 (middle row) and R24 (bottom row) as a function of stellar mass, stellar mass surface density, and g25−i25 colour. For full caption please see the paper.$

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Tessa Vernstrom @tvern23.bsky.social · May 23

Is this higher than normal? By how much? It sounds like a good thing but as at least an astronomer if there’s no grad places for the many seeking them, is that good ? Usually in times of bad economy we have more seeking grad school than there are places

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Tessa Vernstrom @tvern23.bsky.social · May 23

Lovely. I almost never see rainbows my whole life until Perth, now it’s so often and an amazing amount of double rainbows

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Andrea Botteon @andreabotteon.bsky.social · May 21

Thin filaments in the tails of A2255, by DeRubeis+ (w/ myself, @jurjen93.bsky.social+)
A2255 is known to be a "mess" (arxiv.org/abs/2006.04808). The new @LOFAR-VLBI images add further complexity in the system, this time revealing small-scale structures in its radio galaxies
arxiv.org/abs/2505.13595

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Bärbel Koribalski @bskoribalski.bsky.social · May 21

Optical images from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) are amazing, ... so much happening in the galaxy group. Exploring the sky never gets boring 🤩 #extragalactic #AstroSci #astronomy #galaxies

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Minh Huynh @astrominh.bsky.social · May 21

The PASA Editorial Board and I are proud to announce PASA is now accepting Letter submissions!

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia @pasajournal.bsky.social · May 21

PASA is now accepting Letters, for the publication of high impact and timely astronomical research that requires a quick turnaround. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

PASA Letters

Welcome to Cambridge Core

www.cambridge.org

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Tessa Vernstrom @tvern23.bsky.social · May 15

A day late posting but after a lot of hard work I give you the survey overview papers for the EMU & POSSUM ASKAP surveys #EMU survey arxiv.org/abs/2505.08271 and the #POSSUM survey arxiv.org/abs/2505.08272 🔭

The Evolutionary Map of the Universe: A new radio atlas for the southern hemisphere sky

We present the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) survey conducted with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). EMU aims to deliver the touchstone radio atlas of the southern hem...

arxiv.org

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Kara D. Lamb @karadlamb.bsky.social · May 15

www.fastcompany.com/91333946/thi...

This iconic NASA office changed climate science forever. DOGE plans to kill it

The NYC space is where the term ‘black hole’ was coined and where James Hansen became famous for his warnings about climate change.

www.fastcompany.com

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Tessa Vernstrom @tvern23.bsky.social · May 15

Nah I was still fairly early in the process and so far my findings seem to agree with the other paper

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