A very clever paper by Callingham et al. on arXiv this morning. Uses the distribution of energy and angular momentum of satellite galaxies in the Eagle cosmological simulations to infer the mass of the Milky Way. arxiv.org/abs/1808.10456

Narrowing Down the Mass of the Milky Way - Universe Today universetoday.com/139985/narrowi… @storybywill Universe Today

We are celebrating the 3rd data release of Gaia with an amazing team! 🎉 Thanks also to everyone in DPAC for making this possible! #gaiaDR3

M31 with #GaiaDR3 😍 This is unreal!

4 statisticians and a data scientist

Galaxy mergers and alien life! Interviewed Emma Dodd and @astrosoof for the In Science podcast. The future looks bright with new generation researchers like them! #womeninscience with @WimBrons @afbdijkstra @HarmNoppers

Here's the time series of CO2 from this morning's #EAS2022 #SS8 session. The horizontal lines delineate the "might be concerning from a COVID perspective" level (above the orange) and the "demonstrably concerning from a cognitive impact perspective"...

Richard Bower was energetic, brilliant, kind and undoubtedly unique. We're better off for all that he has given us and all the poorer that he's left us so soon. He will be sorely missed.

Very impressed with the science coming out of #iaus379. It's a wonderful time to study galactic dynamics! Massive appreciation to Alex Ji for relaying every moment of it!

We are growing at the ICCUB , remember you can take any of these postdoc fellowships to Barcelona: Marie Curie (EU commission), Juan de la Cierva (Spanish Ministry), Beatriu del Pino (Catalan Government), La Caixa Junior Leader. Plan ahead, get in touch! I will sponsor you.

✨ A serendipitous discovery uncovers a sleeping giant! Wading through ESA Gaia data, scientists have uncovered a record-holding stellar black hole 🕳️ right in our galaxy 👉 esa.int/Science_Explor…

Paper day: arxiv.org/abs/2404.11604 We show that Gaia BH3 is part of the ED-2 star cluster. The update astrometry puts GaiaBH3 in excellent agreement with the orbit of ED-2. Using some ESO data we got last period we also show that ED-2 is very likely a disrupted globular cluster