#SpaceDebris jeopardises astronomical observations. Protecting the #DarkSky from excess artificial light & minimising unnecessary radio emissions are necessary for conducting world-leading astronomical observations from the ground. 1/3 📷ESO/José Francisco Salgado

It's not every day we get to throw a welcome home party 🎉 Last week marked a big construction achievement with the move of our 8.4-meter primary/tertiary mirror into the main building! It'll now go through prep to get its shiny silver coating ✨ youtu.be/xW_tukDo0Os

Pennsylvania State University: IceCube Identifies Seven Astrophysical Tau Neutrino Candidates psu.edu/news/eberly-co…

NASA’s x-ray telescope faces a long goodbye | Science | AAAS @Newsfromscience #SaveChandra science.org/content/articl…

Flagship NASA space telescope faces a penny-pinching death In the Presidential FY2025 budget request, Biden called for decommissioning NASA's Chandra: our flagship X-ray telescope. The reasons given? All untrue. So here's what we can do. bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…

Excellent article by ⁦Ethan Siegel⁩ The future of US astronomy just dimmed by half - Big Think And do not shut down an exquisite Great Observatory to save 0.x% of a NASA budget, no senior review in sight #SaveChandra ⁦Chandra Observatory⁩ bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…

Finally (if you do not want to read through all of them) we have also set up this guide desi.lbl.gov/2024/04/04/des… summarizing the papers and explaining how they are connected. Watch this space for more updates to come soon! 10/10

If you've heard me talk about "secret LIGO work" over the last several months, I'm super excited to finally be able to share the discovery of GW230529: the first observation of a mass-gap object merging with a neutron star! ligo.org/detections/GW2… Image: Shanika Galaudage 1/7

Final update ahead of this afternoon's total solar eclipse. 😎 Clouds will impact the view throughout much of the totality path, but high clouds from Texas to Ohio and in parts of New England may not completely obscure the eclipse. Stay safe and enjoy!

NASA's drastic plans to shut down its unique, highly productive Great Observatory: Chandra Observatory this fall would be a disaster across astronomy. See my interview on BBC Sounds: Science in Action, 21 March 2024, 24.23 mins in bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

Japanne Eddie_Lemons Belinda Wilkes Chandra Observatory No. If this doesn't get fixed (we still have hope it may be) then it's the end of US leadership in X-ray astronomy. And even if I return to the UK, say, the number of open jobs in the field annually worldwide is tiny compared to the number of us that will be looking for work.

If this looks too close to populated areas it’s because holy shit IT IS

"NASA is not asking to cancel Hubble and Chandra". This is formally/technically true, you can see it in the request (it's not $0!). But Chandra in particular is being totally gutted. The Chandra X-ray Center is about to lay off between 63-81 people (!!!), half of the observatory

The Bipartisan House SS&T agreement to reauthorize NASA, up for full committee markup tomorrow at 10am, includes this revised, unambiguous section protective of Chandra Observatory #SaveChandra

Thank you Ranking Member Rep. Zoe Lofgren for that INCREDIBLE statement about Chandra Observatory 😍 #SaveChandra The legislation also directs NASA to continue operation of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, at least until it completes a Senior-Level review..."

And THANK YOU Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan for your amazing statement "And I have to say, on behalf of my 13 yo son Jackson, who asked me to ask Bill Nelson about Chandra Observatory, that I'm glad to see the provisions related to its future in this bill. Jackson wanted me to say thank you." 🥹

Advocacy by the national + global #SaveChandra community has had a major impact, inspiring a growing, bipartisan coalition of lawmakers (including Authorizers & Appropriators) to preserve a bright future for X-ray astronomy. Chandra's greatest discoveries lie ahead. #SaveChandra

Chandra and HST’s future will be (mostly) publicly revealed at the forthcoming APAC meeting on July 23. Let’s hope we can keep these legendary Great Observatories- the last two from the original fleet - going until they end their missions on their own terms.

We are thrilled to share that TCU Physics & Astronomy is accepting applications for a tenure-track position in Physics. jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assistant…