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Jiten Dhandha
@currysmologist.bsky.social
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Astro PhD at University of Cambridge 🌌 | 21cm cosmologist and high-redshift galaxy enthusiast | avid chai drinker ☕️ | occasional Wikipedia editor 🧩 | he/him

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I managed to capture the Milky Way in Valberg over summer, from a simple 10 second exposure on the iPhone. Rural France is very pretty!!
A patch of the sky from a long exposure shot on an iPhone. There is a blue-ish hue throughout, with hundreds of stars scattered. A faintly defined streak of grey dust clouds is in the center of the shot, tilted towards the top left, which is the Milky Way.
December 26, 2024 at 10:45 PM
currysmologist.bsky.social
absolutely love this quote in the introduction to Cosmos (Carl Sagan). How beautifully put… 🔭
INTRODUCTION The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate... Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all. - Seneca, Natural Questions, Book 7, first century
December 23, 2024 at 9:18 PM
currysmologist.bsky.social
a small extension for early Universe astronomers ;)
An extension to the graph where the happiness goes back up as ancient Population III supernovae are discovered but quickly drops down as they break LCDM cosmology at too high redshifts
January 8, 2024 at 8:31 PM