A lesson on the greenhouse effect with Carl Sagan. 🎥: Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change

God bless the parents of the 80's.

every week the science editors at the NYT look at the massive pile of compelling and inspiring astronomy results, have a good laugh, and profile avi loeb again instead

Seeing grad app season posts on here - a reminder that Australian PhDs are great, applications are typically taken on a rolling basis, and I’m looking for a PhD student at UQ on JWST imaging and our colleagues at Sydney for one on the Toliman Space Telescope!

We’ve just let a private company do this to the whole planet. You can argue how useful or problematic it is, but the fact remains that most countries on Earth, ergo most humans who have as much right to the night sky as anyone else, didn’t consent to this level of space usage >

I know all the talk recently is about men’s obsession with the Roman Empire but have you tried asking the women in your life how often they think about Anne Boleyn?

I would be much more inclined to show up the "required" 30 minutes before my appointment time if there wasn't nearly 100% chance of me still sitting in the waiting room 30 minutes after my appointment was supposed to start.

Grad students: definitely do the PJs thing.

Seeing everyone at #AAS243, including myself, quietly doing the right-hand rule in their laps in the Rossi prize pulsar plenary is giving me warm feelings of camaraderie.

The oversubscription rate of people to chairs in the STScI Town Hall is similar to that of JWST proposals. #AAS243

As a millenial can I just say that this is a very effective threat. I am immediately doing this neglected task.

Eye rolling headline. If we aren't "baffled" then we're disturbed, I guess. We can't just be excited? It's 2000 light years away. I assure you, we are all very comfortable.

So excited to be part of this team!

Just googled recipes for "ricotta frittata" and can't get over how much it sounds like avada kedavra. 🍳🧙

It's fri-TA-ta, not frittat-AH. OK I'm done.

I know that hotel art is supposed to be bad. But, what is this. I mean.