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Astro Data Lab @astrodatalab.bsky.social · 8d

The first annual Astro Data Lab user survey closes tomorrow, September 30. If you haven’t already, please fill it out to help shape the future of the Data Lab!

👉 User Survey: datalab.noirlab.edu/usersurvey

#astronomy 🔭

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 12d

Exciting news! Introducing AstroVisBench: A Code Benchmark for Scientific Computing and Visualization in Astronomy!

A new benchmark developed by researchers at the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins is testing how well LLMs implement scientific workflows in astronomy and visualize results.

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Matthew Kenworthy @mattkenworthy.bsky.social · 26d

My periodic reminder for #astrosci #astrodon #exoplanets Early Career Researchers to please, please, please have a simple web site with your current email address on it - rationale here: kenworthy.space/advice/

A pen sketch of a web page for an astronomer, showing name, email, optional phone number, and professional contact details, with a one sentence summary of their research and an ADS link.

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you have a few mins and have used (or you're thinking about using) the Astro Data Lab, our team would love to hear from you!

Astro Data Lab @astrodatalab.bsky.social · Sep 5

Your opinion matters!

We invite current and future users of Astro Data Lab to take the first User Survey. Please help us shape our future development!

👉 User Survey: datalab.noirlab.edu/usersurvey

#astronomy 🔭

Astro Data Lab annual user survey 2025

Thank you for participating in the first annual user experience survey of the Astro Data Lab science platform. Your answers are collected anonymously, i.e., we are not linking your responses to any pe...

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · Aug 6

Vote to bring our panel “Revolutionizing Astronomy + AI with Next Generation Big Data” to SXSW! Register for a SXSW account & vote by clicking the heart ❤️ - open now til Aug 24!
participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx... @stephajuneau.bsky.social @niall2.bsky.social

PanelPicker | SXSW Conference & Festivals

PanelPicker® is the official SXSW user-generated session proposal platform. Enter ideas and vote to help shape Conference programming for SXSW and SXSW EDU.

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · Apr 17

Ah! indeed ☺

Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · Mar 19

Yay! Now I'm allowed to reveal that DESI found stronger constraints toward evolving dark energy. It's not quite at the five sigma level yet but may have "major implications for our understanding of the nature and fate of our universe" 🚀🔭

DESI Survey @desisurvey.bsky.social · Mar 19

JUST RELEASED: DESI DR1 & BAO RESULTS FROM DR2🌌

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · Mar 19

🔭 OK so I'm not allowed to reveal the details yet but we have some exciting press releases coming up in a few hours (watch this space:
@desisurvey.bsky.social) including a data release that I've been working on for MONTHS and I'm just here on the verge of tears 😭

#astronomy #data #treasure

Montage with photos of the Mayall 4-meter telescope and a selfie in front of it.

Portrait of astronomer Stephanie Juneau in front of the Mayall telescope dome in the background. By photographer Jesse Rieser

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Slaughter💀🎃🦇 @catieslaughts.bsky.social · Feb 28

🔭 Crowdsourcing here a little: Astro folks! Do you have a favorite online resource/publication for astronomy info to share with the general public?

I have a science museum volunteer who's interested in updating the sources they share with folks who want to learn more, and astrobites is my default

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Brett Morris @brettmorr.is · Feb 28

We can't make @astropy.org better for you without knowing a bit about what you need and who you are. Tell us!

The Astropy Project will make informed decisions with your input. 🔭🧪

astropy @astropy.org · Feb 28

The Astropy Project is made by our community, for our community. But who are we, exactly?

We want *your* input in the first astropy user survey:

forms.gle/KX2cNuFsQYgV...

Share how you use astropy, how to improve it, and how we can support you and your work! 🧪🔭

2025 Astropy Community Survey

This survey should take less than 15 minutes to complete. Your responses are voluntary and will remain anonymous and confidential. The aggregated, anonymized data will be used to determine developmen...

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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · Feb 19

Image by Michael Carroll shows some asteroids to scale. We did NOT see the little one coming & it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring >1400 people. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is bigger than the little one, perhaps as large as the football field! JWST 🔭 data next month will help pin down the size.

Image by Michael Carroll illustrating the sizes of some asteroids in 2013. The asteroids are shown in comparison to a US football field. We had seen the big one coming, and it just buzzed Earth. But the littler one we did NOT see coming, and it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk, creating a shockwave the blew out windows and injuring more than 1400 people. The asteroid we are monitoring now - 2024 YR4 - is bigger than the little guy, but maybe as large as the whole football field! Our JWST measurements next month will help pin down the size. Source: https://carrollspaceart.com/gallery/comparisons/

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · Feb 19

And the fun video showcasing the @desisurvey.bsky.social data leading to Raga's findings

youtu.be/C-ZY6cCodoY?...

Cosmoview Episode 94: DESI Uncovers 300 New Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Plus 2500 New Active Bl...

YouTube video by NOIRLabAstro

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · Feb 19

Excited about this press release on Raga's great work finding elusive intermediate-mass black holes in galaxies! This project started during her PhD. Nice to see it come to fruition & also a glimpse of what the future holds with now much more DESI data in hand 🤩🔭

noirlab.edu/public/news/...

DESI Uncovers 300 New Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Plus 2500 New Active Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies - The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument discovers a treasure trove of active black holes in dw...

Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an active black hole, more ...

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · Feb 19

Got truncated... Will repost. Thanks!!! Should have been noirlab.edu/public/news/...

DESI Uncovers 300 New Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Plus 2500 New Active Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies - The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument discovers a treasure trove of active black holes in dw...

Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an active black hole, more ...

noirlab.edu

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Astro Data Lab @astrodatalab.bsky.social · Jan 31

✨January 2025 updates✨

- Added 6 datasets: Palomar Gattini-IR (PGIR) DR1, S-PLUS DR4, DES Y6 Gold, PHAT v3, DeMCELS DR1, SDSS DR12 stellar mass VACs

- Added 4 Jupyter notebooks to our collection available to all users and on GitHub

Read more in our Newsletter! datalab.noirlab.edu/newsletters/...

NOIRLab Newsletter 2025/01

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · Jan 16

Very proud of Isabella's work which she started during a TIMESTEP internship at NOIRLab last summer. She wrote a very nice Jupyter notebook on galaxy quenching featuring the SDSS "cosmic slime" estimates of matter density. Check out her #aas245 iPoster 465.04 (notebook linked in short thread below)

Astro Data Lab @astrodatalab.bsky.social · Jan 16

📣Undergrad student Isabella Olin is presenting her #aas245 iPoster 465.04 soon (1-2pm) on SDSS/BOSS Large Scale Structure and the "Cosmic Slime" Value-Added Catalog, where she investigates the impact of environment on galaxy quenching

She contributed a new Jupyter notebook on her work (link below)

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National Radio Astronomy Observatory - NSF NRAO @thenrao.bsky.social · Jan 15

🔎 #AAS245 Scavenger Hunt 🔍

ngVLA antennas are hidden around the conference center!

Find one? Take it home, and don’t forget to tag us @thenrao.bsky.social! (@thenrao on all socials)

#RadioAstronomy 📡

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · Jan 15

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For those who missed it, this is the stunning image from Webb's NIRCam showing NGC 604, a star-forming region located around 2.73 Mly away in the Triangulum galaxy (M33).

Source and more➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #NASAWebb #JWST

This is an image from JWST’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera). It features the star-forming region NGC 604 and shows how stellar winds from bright, hot, young stars carve out cavities in surrounding gas and dust. The most noticeable features are tendrils and clumps of emission that appear bright red, extending out from areas that look like clearings, or large bubbles in the nebula.

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Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social · Jan 14

When bacteria was found on an asteroid Ryugu grain in London, the media questioned whether terrestrial contamination was ever avoidable. No contamination has been found at JAXA. But let's take a look at what that takes... brace yourself (my latest on Cosmos 🧪🔭🛰️)
👉 cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/keeping-out-...

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · Jan 14

Update: Mars came back from the other side 🔭🌝

#mars #occultation

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · Jan 14

Last minute decided to check the Mars occultation time and rushed outside with new camera lens. Can you spot Mars just before it was occulted by our beautiful Moon? 🌝 🔭

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Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · Jan 13

Folks attending #aas245 this week, come by the NOIRLab booth to chat with some of my colleagues and get a live demo! 🔭

@noirlabastro.bsky.social

Astro Data Lab @astrodatalab.bsky.social · Jan 11

Hi everyone, we're excited to attend #AAS245 🔭

Come see live demos of Data Lab, SPARCL, Gemini data reduction & grab Data Lab postcards at the NOIRLab booth # 105D (NSF pavilion).

Demo schedule posted below and in our January Newsletter: datalab.noirlab.edu/newsletters/...

Schedule for the Astro Data Lab demos at the AAS245 meeting. Demos are at booth #105D in the NSF pavilion. The list of demos per day is the following.

Monday, Jan 13:
10am - 11am = Explore large scale structures of galaxies
1pm - 3pm = Reduce Gemini imaging data with DRAGONS
3pm - 4pm = GHOST spectroscopic data reduction
5:30 - 6:30pm = Search and retrieve spectroscopy data with SPARCL

Tuesday, Jan 14:
10am - 11am = NEID: tips for optimizing your proposal
11am - 12pm = GHOST spectroscopic data reduction
2pm - 3pm = Reduce Gemini imaging data with DRAGONS
3pm - 4pm = Explore large scale structures of galaxies

Wednesday, Jan 15:
9am - 10am = Search and retrieve spectroscopy data with SPARCL
11am - 12pm = GHOST spectroscopic data reduction
2pm - 3pm = Reduce Gemini imaging data with DRAGONS
4:30pm - 5:30pm = Explore large scale structures of galaxies

Thursday, Jan 16:
9am - 10am = GHOST spectroscopic data reduction

Dr. Stéphanie Juneau @stephajuneau.bsky.social · Jan 10

I think you might present in the same session as Isabella Olin, a student working with me on galaxy quenching. Sadly, I won't be attending but it'd be great if you two get to meet! I'll send you a note about your paper as well. Interesting stuff! ✨

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Katey Alatalo, Ph.D. @kateyalatalo.com · Jan 10

The gofundme for affected astronomers has been expanded to cover ALL astronomers who have been impacted by this fire. We're at $33k and still going, so if you were on the fence, please think about donating!
www.gofundme.com/f/support-na...

Donate to Help JPL & Roman & HabWorlds teammates in Pasadena, organized by Jason Tumlinson

We are raising money to assist friends of ours who are displaced or… Jason Tumlinson needs your support for Help JPL & Roman & HabWorlds teammates in Pasadena

www.gofundme.com

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · Jan 10

We've just released the third band of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey! This is the new #RadioAstronomy reference survey of the sky, south of declination 40 degrees.

Here are some typical images...

@sunmish.bsky.social @elenchically.bsky.social @cosmicpudding.bsky.social @redqso.bsky.social

6 images from the "Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey". The top row shows the RACS high band, mid band and low band images of radio source PKS J0816−7039.

The bottom row shows the RACS high band, mid band and low band images of radio source PKS J2113+0230.

The colour scheme ranges from pale to dark purple.

Image credit: Stefan Duchesne

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