It pains me to see eminent colleagues like Neil deGrasse Tyson propagate elementary mistakes. What would really be the implications of taking Santa Claus seriously? I’ll repeat the basics of Santa Mechanics. A theory way more advanced than Neil let’s on here. 🎄🧵 1/13

The members of #NAC captured this beautiful image of the Super Blue Moon before the dawn of September 1st. The was taken with the #club's 8" #telescope and Skyris 236M monochrome CMOS. Fun fact- The raw data for the image was over 100GB! #niser #astronomy #Astrophotography #space

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 '𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲'. The 1st JWST analysis for the planet K2-18b is out. But many exoplanet scientists are pretty sceptical about these claims - THREAD (1/N)

New students make us realize how poor our diet is.

#sunrise is less than 1-week away at #southpole! Here is an excellent picture of dark sector from late August by IceCube Neutrino Observatory winterover Marc Jacquart. Always interesting to see the snow accumulation and buildings icing over after winter.

The eastbound crossing of the Atlantic this evening.

BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

Into the final roar Sharma's men NZ tried hard but it's ten out of ten We had Kohli the holy and tons galore Tendulkar's records gone and a mighty score. Poetry is no joke, but tomorrow the choke.

Never encountered such a low readability score in Grammarly.

Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.

Let's try something different: "The Battle of Historical Astro Plots!" Pick one - Plot from Leavitt & Pickering (1912) (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1912HarCi.…) - Plot from Hubble (1929) (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1929PNAS..…) Poll (below) is open for two days - vote!

Figures and equations begins with \label{f1} and \label{e1} and later ditch the convention after some time.

#IPL2024 graphics ☹️👎

Today I'm playing a game called "Is it a Rhodamine labelled Giant Unilamellar Vesicle or an image of the 2024 Solar Eclipse" #MembraneBiology #SolarEclipse2024

Tough luck for Punjab Kings.

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This one deserves a close up! 📸 Here’s another, multi-wavelength look at today’s X8.7-class solar flare, the most powerful of this solar cycle.

Need to beat the heat? Webb has snapped a direct image of Epsilon Indi Ab: the coldest and most Jupiter-like exoplanet to be imaged so far. To make the discovery, Webb blocked out starlight (shown by the star symbol) with a mask called a coronagraph: go.nasa.gov/3SmQzvE

I'm currently at that point where I involuntarily pronounce latex as LaTeX.

Weekdays are as fast as weekends.