Happy bittersweet 25th birthday, dear Chandra! To many many more photons.

Alas, support for DS9 is also going to end because of the savage budget cuts that will affect Chandra from October 1st. Will the community rally to find a way to keep maintaining/developing this super-useful and powerful tool?

"My name is August West, and I love my Pearly Baker best more than my wine"

To make this period even more bittersweet, NEOWISE will retire soon. I feel a strong scientific (and emotional) connection the WISE mission for all the interesting blazars work it helped us to do a long time ago. Thanks, WISE, you gave me a career in astro, I won't forget you!

Bye, WISE!

It's one of those weeks.

This AI-generated "podcast" by NotebookLM based on a paper I am working on right now is honestly hilarious! And not as inaccurate as I thought, at times it (they?) get things quite right. notebooklm.google.com/notebook/d9cfd…

Il distintivo odore delle calde, umide brume autunnali nel basso nolano.

It's really over now, my dear good friend WISE. I'll always keep you in my heart and mind.

All bets are off. I think it's time for the European Union to learn how to stand up for themselves politically, economically and militarily.

I can't figure out exactly why, but I am sure it's time for my umpteenth rewatch of X-Files.

SAO DS9 8.6's new SAMP hub is awesome, fully interoperable with Astropy 😎. Check it out. This will be the last-ever version of DS9 if Chandra funding ends. ds9.si.edu

Oh WISE, my dear WISE!

Linea 6 della metropolitana di Napoli.

Beatitudine in vestaglia celeste

AAS Alarmed by Rumored Deep Cuts to NASA & National Science Foundation Recent reports have indicated that the White House may soon be proposing drastic cuts to future budgets for National Science Foundation (NSF) & NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD). aas.org/posts/news/202…

Navigable, zoomable Vera Rubin First Lookup images in all their glorious detail!

Il Chandra Source Catalog è un progetto di grande valore scientifico perché permette a tutti di accedere all'enorme ricchezza di dati contenuti nell'archivio Chandra. Orgoglioso di essere un membro del team che lo ha creato.

Being a Loge in the face of impending doom and muttering "Bedenken will ich's: wer weiß, was ich thu'!"