New paper on galactic distribution of solar-analog stars: arxiv.org/abs/2303.17673

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

arxiv.org/abs/2303.17673

If you only read one paper this year, let it be: "Gaia Data Release 3: Chemical cartography of the Milky Way" = arxiv.org/abs/2206.05534

"Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the variability processing and analysis" - L. Eyer et al. aanda.org/articles/aa/pd…

#AAS242

The government of Chile has issued new light pollution regulations called the "Order for the Protection of Areas with Astronomic Interest ". In particular, it creates a 150-km zone of special protection around Chile's astronomical observatories. PDF: diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/publicaciones/…

Greetings X-ers. SS-DD, as they used to say.

Congrats to Ken Carpenter and team for phase 1 funding to pursue an Artemis-Enabled Stellar Imager - on the moon, Alice! nasa.gov/general/lunar_…

"Cool" story about the CMB cold spot in recent astrobites: astrobites.org/2024/03/01/new… Also, check out astrosoundbites.com

As seen at this week's Debris Disk meeting in Tucson - per Josh Lovell: as.arizona.edu/DustDevils2024…

New paper! "Stellar Streams in the Gaia Era" Ana Bonaca & Adrian M. Price-Whelan arxiv.org/pdf/2405.19410 "The hierarchical model of galaxy formation predicts the Milky Way halo is populated by tidal debris of dwarf galaxies and globular clusters, detected with the Gaia mission."

A professional astronomer turned dark-sky champion, David L. Crawford became synonymous with the fight against light pollution around the world. buff.ly/4fpLtbF

Sad to learn of IDA/Darksky co-founder, David Crawford's, crossing over.

One last publication by cosmochemist Charles R. Cowley, "Galactic kinematics of various stellar types" - arxiv.org/pdf/2408.06161 . "We compare and contrast the kinematics of various classes of stars, both normal (with MK types) and peculiar. etc.

Nice vimeo of Mercury's sodium cloud: player.vimeo.com/video/547356001

Free the Epstein files!

No kings was aptly articulated by Samuel in the old testament book, I Kings 8: 10-18. Insightful.

Important new paper that could resolve eps Aur binary using GAIA DR4 proper motion jitter data at 10 microarcsec level: Taaki et al. Using Astrometry to Break Degeneracies in Stellar Surface Mapping, arxiv.org/abs/2601.11737

ArXiv 2602.02449 Kasikov et al "Yellow Hypergiants in the Milky Way" details 'Lit. values' for ϵ Aur: ang.diam[1] 1.95±0.20 mas, Teff[6] 7395 ± 70K & 300 Ro & log L 5.37, 'derived': 236 ± 25 Ro & 5.13+0.09-0.12 log L; Ref 1: Bourges+17 Ref 6: Strassmeier+14 - hi mass solution?