I remember seeing this in LA and when they briefly showed the fake transit map it caused an audible gasp from the crowd

On the topic, every time I watch I imagine my own knuckle tattoo desires, and at the moment it might just be INFR ARED

Just a reminder that Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is very good, a strange miracle of a film that somehow slipped through the weird limitations of Hollywood moviemaking

if it were instead *suggesting* a word, it would look like this:

isn't this just what happens when you mistype a word? It automatically changes it to the correct word, and if you tap on the corrected word, this dropdown appears showing the original weird word you mistyped? Like, I can replicate that exact behavior:

WE NEED BRAVEST GUNNERS

But there are a lot of asteroids, and there are regular IAU "Working Group Small Body Nomenclature" bulletins that are issued with newly chosen names, often after places and people. It's kind of charming, to just imagine these little asteroids out there with these fun names. (I'm very jealous)

For the majority of astronmical objects, they are just named after their position on the sky, or based on the survey in which they were found. This is "Boring To The Public" but "Very Helpful to the People Who Study These Things." It's like if you were named after your address.

Gah this show was too good for this world

one shift during commissioning the people who *are* allowed to play with the controls were watching Morbius (2022)

stupendously lovely game to play and sit with. I had so much fun with exploring the national forest. Also it was fun to find weird stuff like this

This is entirely why I have “Ned Wright Cosmology Calculator” as bookmark, but ALSO these weirdly big z > 10 galaxies are actually (even when correcting for this effect!) still bigger than I might expect at this redshift

You can search for these by ID on FitsMap. For instance, here's a link to 1080088: jades.idies.jhu.edu/goods-n/?ra=.... By clicking one of the layer buttons in the top right corner, you can select "NIRCam DR5 SEDs" and see the SED fit generated for the source.

I'm also quite excited to find that about a quarter of the sources have evidence of being morphologically complex, with a lot of objects showing flattened, or clumpy morphologies and shapes. The early Universe was wild. Look at all of these little weirdos!

One object we found a few years ago, JADES-GN+189.15982+62.28899 (ID 1019411), which was the farthest in a previous paper I wrote about at a smaller JADES area. We find that it's still a pretty exciting candidate (z_phot = 16.55) with a (admittedly noisy!) spectrum consistent with that redshift!

Here's the same plot, but I've colored the points known before JWST launched in these fields with red. This shows why people who study the early Universe are excited about JWST, not just being able to see farther, but being able to see intrinsically much, much *fainter* galaxies. I love seeing this!

My contribution to the JADES DR5 release was a paper showing off the TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHTY ONE farthest galaxies and candidates in the survey, a treasure trove of cosmic dawn objects that help us understand how the first galaxies came to be. The paper: arxiv.org/abs/2601.15959

Yesterday, the JADES team released our "Data Release 5," an enormous, many-year effort by quite a number of folks combining the 800+ hour JADES data with dozens of public datasets in and around the Hubble Deep and Ultra-Deep fields. It's so exciting! jades-survey.github.io/high-redshif...

Marcia, wearing her cosmic cliffs windbreaker, at a *mock astronomy press conference* talking about high-redshift galaxies?

I mean, look at my friend Carlos here, this is the best

Oh wait also the laminated Windows 98 cheat sheet you buy from Office Depot

I am not a rep of seestar, I'm just a dork who was way happy this year to have this thing, it makes doing astronomy education and outreach real helpful, but also it's kind of a sick thing to have around for boring but clear nights, this is from my parents house in southern california, still good

there's a mode where you zoom around on a sky map and go "oh, I wonder what that is," and you tap on it and the telescope just spins around and finds it and starts going to town and you get to see things like this fun little "planetary nebula" here, glowing green with oxygen

like this was just a half hour or so a few months ago with the thing, because it does all the processing/stacking on-board and tracks the sky, so you end up getting sick photos quickly. Believe me, the parts of the process this thing automates are the Not Fun Parts, so you just get Cool Photos

this weekend I performed a piece in the Tucson Puppet Cabaret, my second overhead projector shadow puppet show, where The Universe chatted with the audience about our weird history of trying to talk to aliens. It's so much fun finding new and weird avenues of science communication!

There is no chance. There are no parts.

this is from a paper I'm putting together of a 300 K brown dwarf and it's kind of insane how similar it is