⚠️New paper!⚠️ We have discovered a planet, Gaia-4b, and a brown dwarf, Gaia-5b, using the ESA Gaia spacecraft. Gaia-4b is Gaia's first planet detected with astrometry alone and represents the tip-of-the-iceberg of the 100s-1000s of planets that Gaia is expected to detect.

The peer review system doesn’t work when your are asking the same people for $1000s to publish their own paper. Your customers can’t also be your workforce. Reduce paper charges or compensate your reviewers.

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A lot of interpretation from a flat line…. K2-18 is not habitable but the crazy alien community is gonna have fun with this one. bbc.com/news/articles/…

These are various deep-sky objects we have been able to get pictures of at the MSU Observatory throughout the year! The 1st image is the Silver Sliver Galaxy. The 2nd image is the Ring Nebula. The 3rd is the Phantom Galaxy, 32 million light-years away!

"Maybe Mondays aren't so bad..." -Nayda, MSU Student Observer Pictured is the Eagle Nebula (M16) and the moon taken on our 24-inch telescope this summer!

We’re so happy to host GLEAM 2025 at UW–Madison this Fall, Nov 6–7! gleam.astro.wisc.edu Join us for two days of exoplanets & community with a view of the shores of Lake Mendota. No registration fee. Travel support available. Abstracts & Travel Support Requests due Sept 5th.

Unfortunately, we are cancelling our public night that was scheduled for August 2nd due to an upcoming upgrade. Instead, visit Fox Park Observatory! (eatoncounty.org/651/Public-Vie…) They will be having public nights on Friday August 1st, and Saturday August 2nd from 9:00pm-12:00am.

With prospective graduate emails beginning, I want to point people to a thread about these emails. Unfortunately, MSU's astronomy PhD program will not be accepting applications for the upcoming admissions cycle. astro.natsci.msu.edu/graduate/how-t…

Join us on Saturday from 9:00-11:00pm for public night at the MSU Observatory! Visit our website for FAQs: web.pa.msu.edu/astro/observ/v… Address: MSU Observatory, 4299 Pavilion Dr, Lansing, MI 48910

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Billions of years in the making, just in time for Friday night viewing. Swan Nebula (M17), Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), and Whirlpool Galaxy (M51a) captured with our 24-inch telescope.

Join us for these free astronomy events tomorrow, September 27th! 🌌 🌙 Night hike and night sky observing with Abrams Planetarium at Burchfield Park: lansing.org/event/burchfie… 🌙 Public Observing at the MSU Observatory: web.pa.msu.edu/astro/observ/v…

We had such a fun time at the Halloween public night last Friday! Thanks to everyone who stopped by, we'll be open again for public nights in the spring.

Continuing our great work at MSU from the campus observatory! Public nights will begin again in April! Until then we are using the few clear nights we get for research!