Friends. The Chandra Source Catalog version 2.1 has been released! This is a very rich and exciting dataset for astronomical discovery, and for data-driven exploration, regardless of whether you are an X-ray astronomer or not. Enjoy it! cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/csc/

#OTD 5 April 2063 Happy #FirstContactDay (and first #WarpDrive flight) #StarTrek

Bluebell season! #Hatfield #Herts

I have just arrived at Padova for EAS Annual Meeting and the public buses are already tuning in with the astronomical gathering 😃🌟🔥 #EAS2024Padova.

The The Red Devils Army Parachute Display Team parachute display at the Hatfield House Battle Proms 🇬🇧. (Video credit: Anushree Sengupta) youtube.com/watch?v=R6mGkh… Battle Proms

Highlight: The VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea eXtended (VVVX) ESO public survey: Completion of the observations and legacy by R. K. Saito, M. Hempel, J. Alonso-García, P. W. Lucas, et al. 2024, A&A, 689, A148 aanda.org/2024-highlight…

ESO press release: ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map ever of our Milky Way eso.org/public/news/es… Article by Saito et al.: aanda.org/10.1051/0004-6…

Awesome to see Buzz Aldrin appreciating the VVVX press release! Dr. Buzz Aldrin

Hatfield House lake. Two swans under a conifer.

NASA: Hubble Finds Sizzling Details About Young Star FU Orionis hubblesite.org/contents/news-…

"We can find as many as half a million changes in the sky every night" Who is Shri Kulkarni, the Caltech professor who envisioned, built and now manages ZTF Survey? Watch a short film produced for the The Shaw Prize of which he was recipient this year. news.tvb.com/tc/programme/t…

2-million-mile-per-hour galactic crash reawakens a dangerous 'cosmic crossroads' space.com/million-mph-ga… Feel's nice to see your research getting traction in the media <3 (no aliens were harmed while conducting this study Mail Online 😉

So long and thanks for all the fish! I just observed my last star this morning... #GaiaDPAC and European Space Agency Gaia teams will do their best to make some great data releases from all the data I gathered! #GaiaDR4 in 2026, #GaiaDR5 around the end of the decade. Keep posted for our news

Looking forward to seeing Tr 14 in high resolution with JWST pre-imaging.

Airplane + internal reflection image of the sun (upside down) from my phone camera #UKeclipse