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Happy birthday to astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), a trailblazer for women in #astronomy who discovered that hydrogen and helium are the most common elements in the universe.โ 
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Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College at Cambridge in 1919 where she heard a lecture which changed her life. She wrote, โ€œMy world had been so shaken that I experienced something very like ๐Ÿงต
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#linocut #physics #sciart printmaking #womenInSTEM #mastoArt


This is a hard one for me to catch, but I got lucky last month and was able to capture more data that I combined with some data from May 2025.

Rho Ophiuchi is one of my favorite nebulae. Itโ€™s so colorful in broadband; no filters necessary. I wish it wasnโ€™t so close to the horizon for me.

Full resolution and capture details: app.astrobin.com/i/xakohb

#astronomy #astrophotography


#OnThisDay, 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union formally adopts Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system. The principles in it still underpin modern classification.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Astronomy #WomenInSTEM #AmericanHistory #Histodons


Messier 65 is a spiral galaxy in Leo, ~35 million light-years away. Part of the Leo Triplet, it shows signs of tidal interaction with its neighbors and reveals intricate dust lanes through a telescope.

astrocamp.eu/en/messier-65-2/

#astrophotography #astronomy #nature #deepsky #nightsky #telescope


German astronomer David Fabricius discovered the first known periodic variable star, but he later denounced a local goose thief who struck him in the head with a shovel and killed him OTD in 1617 toilet-guru.com/blog/36.html?sโ€ฆ #astronomy #history


Would you like to be part of citizen science astronomy? We invite you to classify gravitational lens candidates in so-far unreleased #ESAEuclid data: "Space Warps โ€“ ESA Euclid DR1".

3000 volunteers have already made nearly 900,000 classifications, yet 70% of the project are still to be done.

All the background and link to the Zooniverse: zooniverse.org/projects/aprajiโ€ฆ

#ESA #Euclid #astronomy #GravitationalLensing #science #CitizenScience.


๐ŸŒ• Full Moon: Maximum lunar brilliance achieved!

๐ŸŒ• Current Phase: Full Moon (99% illuminated)
๐ŸŒ Distance: 356,400 km (221,456 miles)
๐Ÿ• Tonight: Moonrise 08:20 PM, Moonset 06:26 AM

๐Ÿ”„ Next Phase: Last Quarter on May 09, 2026
๐ŸŒ• Next Full Moon: May 31, 2026
๐ŸŒ‘ Next New Moon: May 16, 2026

๐Ÿ“… This Week's Moon Events:
โ€ข Full Moon: May 01, 2026

#MoonPhase #Astronomy #Automated #FullMoon


Astronomers puzzle over early origins of mysterious โ€˜red monsterโ€™ galaxy

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#science #astronomy


Astronomer and science communicator @KellyLepo's feed includes posts from dozens of professional astronomers.

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#Astronomy #Science #SurfFeeds #SurfSocial #SurfApp

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