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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · 26d

please like this we need to free those poor little fellas 🫶

Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · 26d

petition to remove dust from the milky way

1 like = 1 dust grain removed

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"

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · Jul 19

smoothly played

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · Jul 19

A meme comparing a crappy car to a star cluster (obviously not crappy.) The meme concludes by soliciting DMs from any meme-viewers who want to know my favourite star clusters.

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · Jul 17

your email finds me in the thermally unstable regime between WNM and CNM

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · Jul 10

The meme template with two astronauts in space, one of whom is holding a gun. The earth is labelled "parallax = -0.5 mas". An astronaut is captioned with "Wait, this star is behind me?" And the one holding a gun has the caption "Always has been"

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Erica Sawczynec @ericasawczynec.bsky.social · Jul 6

always classic

the simpson “old man yells at cloud meme” bit repurposed to say “astronomer yells at cloud” and the background behind the picture of the yelling man in newspaper now has a dust cloud behind him instead of clouds like in the normal meme

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · Jun 23

that being said look at how absolutely stunning Rubin's view of our night sky is: www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/s...

Thousands of asteroids and millions of galaxies shine in first images from the largest camera ever built | CNN

The first test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile showcase thousands of previously unknown asteroids and millions of glittering galaxies.

www.cnn.com

gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · Jun 23

"comparison is the thief of joy" tell yourself that BEFORE you start comparing my beautiful hubble telescope to your new gen fancy smancy telescope again. Think about how that would make her feel. She has been the greatest for the longest of time and we owe her the world

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · Jun 5

#🔭

a farmer tending to his field in the foreground with the text 'me checking the arxiv for new silly papers' with a dark cloud looming in the background with the text 'the world right now'

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · May 24

New age determination method if my cluster can open a child safety cap it is a young cluster otherwise it is an old cluster in this paper I will use

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · May 14

it is a hint from the universe to go outside and sit in the sun

boxer ready to fight: ok ima accomplish a lot of things today.
boxer sitting down: damn overlead down

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · Apr 7

oversimplified: parallax to distance is a non-linear relationship, so a (symmetrical) error in parallax leads to an asymmetrical error in distance. This very nice paper by Bailer Jones describes the whole problem in detail: arxiv.org/pdf/1507.02105
or this one: arxiv.org/pdf/1804.09376

arxiv.org

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · Apr 7

use your priors people ☝️

Screenshot from a spongebob scene: the blackboard says 'Good Noodles' with a list of people getting stars. "Everyone who does not just use 1/parallax to get the distance" got the most stars, because they are not just good noodles but the best.

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ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · Mar 27

Today we say goodbye to ESA’s Milky Way-mapper Gaia! The Gaia spacecraft has completed its sky-scanning and will be switched off this morning.

Gaia spacecraft in space in front of the Milky Way galaxy

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · Mar 25

no way pete hegseth just texted me the origin of the imf

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · Mar 18

why dont you go observe the way shear rips apart unbound groupings of stars and maybe then you'll calm down

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · Mar 15

"Etendue, Brute?" — Julius Caesar, spectrograph builder

Quinn Sutherland @reelquinn.bsky.social · Mar 15

“Ecru, Brute?” - Julius Caesar, interior decorator

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · Mar 10

doomscrolling on the AAS job registry

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · Mar 10

@astropy.org

Most important events in history: A timeline from left (long time ago) to the right (2024), on the far left two events are noted: fire and the wheel, on the right one event is noted: astropy.units

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · Feb 19

being alive is great because there are so many colours you can try out in matplotlib. but then there is also the horrors

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · Feb 14

unmatched astrometrizz 💥💕send this to your boo

valentines card with: i want to measure all your angles

valentines card with: they cant accurately measure the radial velocity of my heart cuz it is spinning way too fast for you

valentines card with: are you HDBSCAN cuz you can locate my overdensities

valentines card with: i have your Gaia ID memorized

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · Feb 6

We propose a new age dating method for open clusters based on whether a cluster is able to open a child safety cap or not, assigning clusters the binary labels 'child' and 'adult'. In this paper we will

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · Feb 5

Can't believe we're obsessed with classifying my beloved

A meme titled "Think you have it hard? Imagine being 2MASS-GC01

WHEN WILL THIS CLASSIFICATION MADNESS END???"

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · Feb 2

tending to my realm (cleaning up my github)

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gaia memes for parallax < 0.01 as connoisseurs @gaiamemes.bsky.social · Jan 27

the astro community posting their research here on bluesky is kinda like hanging assignments you are proud of on the fridge but virtual

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