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SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper @localvolumemapper.bsky.social · 2d

📃Check out this paper:

"SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): revealing the structure of the Rosette Nebula"(ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025MNRA...)

if you want to see the Rosette Nebula with LVM ✨🔭

SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): revealing the structure of the Rosette Nebula

The Rosette Nebula is a well-known H II region shaped by the interaction of gas with the OB stars of the NGC 2244 stellar association. Located within the remnant of a giant molecular cloud, it exhibit...

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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 14d

I'm hiring at Haverford - a 2 year NASA funded postdoc to work on Galaxy Zoo with Roman Space Telescope Data: www.haverford.edu/human-resour... 👩‍🔬🔭

Postdoctoral Researcher in Extragalactic Astrophysics

Haverford College invites applications for our full-time (37.5 hours per week), fixed-term (2 year appointment), exempt, benefits-eligible Postdoctoral Research in Extragalactic Astrophysics opportuni...

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St Andrews School of Physics and Astronomy @physastrostand.bsky.social · 22d

We welcome applications for consideration for this year's Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship scheme. Internal deadline is 3rd Nov. Please email [email protected] for the UstA Leverhulme ECRF application form. Call details are on: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

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The Twin Dome @timfife.bsky.social · Aug 26

The little Twin Dome is now on a road trip back to the big Twin Dome in St Andrews. Starting at the shore in Cellardyke

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Wahl group account @wahlgroup.bsky.social · Aug 21

Currently recruiting

https://wahl.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/08/21/currently-recruiting-3/

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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · Jul 11

Also, check out his amazing video visualising the @milkywaymapper.bsky.social survey on our YouTube Channel, by Szabolcs Mészáros of the MWM Survey Calibration working group: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5w2...

Mapping the chemistry of our Galaxy with SDSS

YouTube video by Sloan Digital Sky Surveys

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SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper @localvolumemapper.bsky.social · Jul 11

🔭LVM is a robotic SDSS facility at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert mapping the interstellar medium of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies✨
Get an eye on LVM with our image gallery: www.sdss.org/science/imag...

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SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper @localvolumemapper.bsky.social · Jul 11

The SDSS-V DR19 is now online at www.sdss.org 🎉
For the first time, LVM data is released.
Get a sneak peak into LVM data and download our amazing LVM tile of the Helix Nebula!✨

A tutorial showing how to access, read in, and work with the data is available here: www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/tut... 💻

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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · Jul 11

@localvolumemapper.bsky.social is an integral-field spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, and other Local Volume Galaxies. Read more about what they are doing here: www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/abo... #DR19

This image shows the Orion Nebula as observed by Local Volume Mapper, and published in Kreckel et al. 2024 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024A%26A...689A.352K/abstract). Different emission lines (hydrogen, silicon and oxygen) are represented with different colour, tracing the ionisation structure of the nebula, carving a bubble in the surrounding dense gas shown by WISE 12micrometer imaging. The ionized gas emission traces wispy, filamentary structures and dusty eroding clouds and clumps. Figure taken from https://www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/about/.

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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · Jul 11

@blackholemapper.bsky.social had already released a few spectra in DR18, but they are going all out for DR19, with lots of galaxy and quasar spectra #DR19

This image shows the location of Black Hole Mapper targets on the sky, with each purple point depicting an object. All fields are in the North taken with the Sloan Telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, US. Fields in the South by the du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory will be part of the next data release, DR20. There is a pink blob around right ascension = 9 hours, which are the eFEDS fields (eROSITA Full Equatorial Depth Survey) released in DR18. Figure taken from https://www.sdss.org/dr19/bhm/

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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · Jul 11

Yesterday we released our nineteenth data release into the wild: www.sdss.org/dr19, let’s now take a closer look on what is in this data release. #DR19

The figure is the banner from the SDSS website www.sdss.org. In the middle it has an image of the Milky Way, showing the bulge, disc and dust lanes. On the left we see an stylised version of the Hertzsprung Russel diagram, while on the right the image transforms into the cosmic web. This image showcases the range of science covered by the three mapper programs in SDSS-V.

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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · Jul 10

We have a data release! Check out sdss.org/dr19 for all the data that just became publicly available with our 19th data release #DR19

Data Release 19 - SDSS

DR19 is the second data release for the fifth phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V). Its content is described in detail on the DR19 data release paper. What's New in DR19 Data Access Scope DR...

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Anne-Marie Weijmans @amweijmans.bsky.social · Jul 10

Today they trusted me with the @sdssurveys.bsky.social account to post about Data Release Day! It's the nineteenth already, and you can read all about it already in the DR19 paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2507.07093. And more on SDSS-V in the Overview paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2507.06989 #DR19

The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Mapping the local and distant Universe is key to our understanding of it. For decades, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has made a concerted effort to map millions of celestial objects to constrain...

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The Twin Dome @timfife.bsky.social · Jun 16

Still more little squares of brass for the installation #BeingSunny at the Twin Dome. A long way still to go

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The Twin Dome @timfife.bsky.social · Jun 11

New work under construction for the twin dome #BeingSunny in collaboration with @amweijmans.bsky.social and tracking research at @sdssurveys.bsky.social under the #curious banner of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · Jun 6

How do astronomers decide that objects to observe? You and your students can now map the cosmos with our new card game.

We've distributed copies of to several SDSS institutions and anyone can download and print their own copy from the link below

voyages.sdss.org/hands-on-act...

Decks of cards marked Event, Time and Science Goal. Some of the cards lie face up. A scoresheet lies next to the cards.

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The Twin Dome @timfife.bsky.social · Jun 5

Quite a few more flowers are starting to appear in the Twin Dome meadow. I’m expecting poppies, corn flowers and ox-eye daisies but it’s looking like we might also have white campions, field pennycress, Malcolm maritima and anchus arvensis (if my phone app is to be believed)

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St Andrews School of Physics and Astronomy @physastrostand.bsky.social · Jun 5

Internal selection for the STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowships is now open. Internal deadline is 30th June 17:00. Interested candidates should go to the website and follow the instructions. astronomy.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/stfc-ernest-...

STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowships – Astronomy Group

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The Twin Dome @timfife.bsky.social · Jun 4

Looking back to detail of “in the event of always falling back down again”. Installation at the School of Physics and Astronomy. Still looking good.

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SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper @localvolumemapper.bsky.social · Jun 3

Following this weeks SDSS-V Collaboration Meeting in Heidelberg, there will be a public talk about LVM and its science at Haus der Astronomie on Wednesday, June 4 at 7 pm. Come and join our SDSS scientists! ✨🔭
More information can be found here: www.haus-der-astronomie.de/events/41361...

Heiße Sterne, Schockwellen und riesige Blasen: Eine neue Erforschung der Milchstraße und der Magellanschen Wolken

Dieser öffentliche Vortrag begleitet die Tagung des internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konsortiums, das die Himmelsdurchmusterung "Sloan Digital Sky Survey" (SDSS) organisiert. Im Mittelpunkt steht ei...

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The Twin Dome @timfife.bsky.social · Jun 2

The first colour of the year in the wildflower meadow at the Twin Dome. It’s all about to start happening

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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · May 26

Want to hear about how SDSS scientists are studying huge bubbles and shockwaves in the Milky Way and beyond?

Then come to our public talk next Wednesday evening at Haus der Astronomie in Heidelberg. The talk will be in German

Haus der Astronomie @hausderastronomie.bsky.social · May 25

Tom Herbst und Niv Drory zeigen euch am 4. Juni um 19 Uhr am HdA wie man die riesigen Blasen und Schockwellen, die von heißen Sternen in unserer Milchstraße und ihren Begleitgalaxien erzeugt werden kartiert. Tickets erhaltet ihr online unter ztix.de/hp/events/27... und an der Abendkasse 🔭

Ankündigung des Abendvortrags "Heiße Sterne, Schockwellen und riesige Blasen" mit Tom Herbst und Niv Drory am 4. Juni 2025 um 19:00 Uhr im Auditorium des Hauses der Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg. Eintritt 6 Euro. Im Hintergrund eine Falschfarbendarstellung der Gasblasen in der Großen Magellanschen Wolke in Braun- und Blautönen

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Haus der Astronomie @hausderastronomie.bsky.social · May 25

Tom Herbst und Niv Drory zeigen euch am 4. Juni um 19 Uhr am HdA wie man die riesigen Blasen und Schockwellen, die von heißen Sternen in unserer Milchstraße und ihren Begleitgalaxien erzeugt werden kartiert. Tickets erhaltet ihr online unter ztix.de/hp/events/27... und an der Abendkasse 🔭

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St Andrews School of Physics and Astronomy @physastrostand.bsky.social · May 20

We are taking applications for the URF call (royalsociety.org/grants/unive...). Candidates should submit their application documents (draft for the 4 page proposal (royalsociety.org/-/media/gran...) and an up to date CV) by 1 July to [email protected]. Candidates will be informed by 4th July.

University Research Fellowship | Royal Society

This scheme is for outstanding scientists who are in the early stages of their research career and have the potential to become leaders in their field. These long-term fellowships provide the opportun...

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St Andrews School of Physics and Astronomy @physastrostand.bsky.social · Mar 31

This weekend the Planetarium team and Dr Anne-Marie Weijmans are at the Edinburgh Science Festival.
www.edinburghscience.co.uk/event/an-eve... & www.edinburghscience.co.uk/event/family... Anne-Marie will give a talk at both events, and be available at the ‘Ask an Expert!’ stand.

An Evening of Cosmic Exploration - Edinburgh Science

Celebrate cosmic exploration at this intergalactic night out that's just for adults!

www.edinburghscience.co.uk

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