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Alessandra Mastrobuono Battisti
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Astronomer and Assistant Prof. at UniPD. Studying globular and nuclear clusters. Mum x 2. http://youtu.be/E2jzp_tJ8so
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Alessandra Mastrobuono Battisti @alessandramb.bsky.social · Jul 21
I got extremely frustrated with students copying Physics lab reports. Since I’m not good at adapting existing tools, I developed my own plagiarism detection tool.
GitHub - alessandramb/document-similarity-tool: A tool to detect similarity between pdf or word documents
A tool to detect similarity between pdf or word documents - alessandramb/document-similarity-tool
github.com
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🔭 Road to the Galactic Centre

Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Abramyan

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The picture shows the a composite image of Monument Valley, Utah, USA in the foreground, and the plane of the Milky-Way Galaxy including the Galactic Centre in the background. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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What happens when a star cluster disperses? Well, it forms a stream of stars - and those streams are all around us!

In a new paper by Sebastian Ratzenböck at the CfA / @univie.ac.at, we looked into streams near to the Sun, and found that the Milky Way's disk is *full* of streams! 🔭☄️🧪 #galactic
Figure from the paper showing detected streams in the Milky Way in Cartesian coordinates, where streams are shown as highlighted volumes. The Sun is at X=Y=Z 0 pc (the red cross): so these streams are all around us!
September 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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🔭 Globular Cluster Omega Centauri

Image Credit & Copyright: Data acquisition - SkyFlux Team, Processing - Leo Shatz

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Globular star cluster Omega Centauri packs about 10 million stars much older than the Sun into a volume some 150 light-years in diameter. Also known as NGC 5139, at a distance of 15,000 light-years it's the largest and brightest of 200 or so known globular clusters that roam the halo of our Milky Way galaxy. Though most star clusters consist of stars with the same age and composition, the enigmatic Omega Cen exhibits the presence of different stellar populations with a spread of ages and chemical abundances. In fact, Omega Cen may be the remnant core of a small galaxy merging with the Milky Way. With a yellowish hue, Omega Centauri's red giant stars are easy to pick out in this sharp telescopic view. A two-decade-long exploration of the dense star cluster with the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed evidence for a massive black hole near the center of Omega Centauri.
July 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Our sister institute at Durham, the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, are advertising for a five year lectureship position 🔭☄️
Advertisement is here, have a look and come join us in pretty Durham: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Lecturer in Observational Astronomy (Research %26 Education)
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July 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
alessandramb.bsky.social
I got extremely frustrated with students copying Physics lab reports. Since I’m not good at adapting existing tools, I developed my own plagiarism detection tool.
GitHub - alessandramb/document-similarity-tool: A tool to detect similarity between pdf or word documents
A tool to detect similarity between pdf or word documents - alessandramb/document-similarity-tool
github.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Oggi è la giornata internazionale delle donne e le ragazze nelle scienze. Un'occasione perfetta per promuovere la Special Session che stiamo organizzando al prossimo congresso dell'European Astronomical Society eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/...
Stay tuned!
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European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2024
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February 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Just got my Italian "#Habilitation" (#ASN) as an Associate & Full Professor :)
October 16, 2023 at 10:23 AM