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A somewhat stereotypical and weird interaction I have now seen several time with several people:

Them: "I and my collaborators like your project/idea/code, could you privately share all details with us please?"

Me: "Ok, that might work, but can you tell me a bit more about what you want to do with it?"

Them: "No way, you need to sign a non-disclosure-agreement with us first".

😱 😱 😱 😱 😱

Anyone else...?

#Academia #astrophysics #science

#science #astrophysics #academia

Endless expanse 🤩

The full #Moon shines bright in the sky. Below it, the giant dome of our Extremely Large Telescope glows with the golden #sunset light of the Atacama Desert in #Chile.

The ELT dome might look small in the image, but the full 30-min walk via the set of stairs from the entrance of the dome to its top indicates its gigantic size: 80 m high and 93 m wide.

Read more: eso.org/public/images/potw2549…

📷 L. Sbordone/ESO

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

This photograph captures the mesmerising colours of an evening sky. The sky's gradient fades from blue at the top to white, then orange and pink at the bottom. A mountain range is visible at the bottom of the image, with all but one of the mountains already in darkness. The last illuminated one is on the right, with a metallic structure on top. In the middle of the mountain range, a triangular shadow can be seen. A silver full moon high in the sky on the left underlines the timelessness of the image.

Endless expanse

www.eso.org
#Space #science #astronomy #Moon #astrophysics #Astrodon #Chile #sunset

A good example of the intersection of #astrophysics, computer #software, and #aerospace engineering:

Solar flare vulnerability in A320 software forces emergency action by airlines
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The Air Current

Data-driven reporting and analysis on the strategy and technology of flying.
The Air Current
#software #astrophysics #aerospace

Owens Valley Radio Observatory 40 meter (130ft) telescope near Big Pine, California (10/13/2025). The big 40m instrument is owned and operated by Caltech. It is mostly used to observe over 1800 blazars in support of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

#Astronomy #AstroPhotography #AstroPhysics #Radio #Telescope #Science #Travel #RoadTrip #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable

A black and white landscape photo of a very large radio telescope dish. The dish sits on a single pedestal. It points up and toward the right. Sagebrush is in the foreground and a large mountain in the background. Big clouds in the sky frame the outline of the telescope's four pyramidal feed support legs. The cloudless part of the sky is very dark as if a red filter had been used.
#photography #science #astronomy #astrophysics #travel #radio #astrophotography #blackandwhite #darktable #roadtrip #telescope

Excited to now share this story; papers have been accepted!

Apep is an awesome system, unlike any other we know about. It is named after the Egyptian God of Chaos - because, well, it is chaos!

Two Wolf-Rayet systems orbited by a third supergiant. As all their winds collide, they form these beautiful structures that have now been observed with #JWST and ESO's VLT.

I had a chat with fellow student from Macquarie Uni. Ryan White who has led one of the two papers that are released about this.

My latest for #SpaceAustralia

spaceaustralia.com/news/order-…

📸 NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Simulation: Yinuo Han (Caltech), Ryan White (Macquarie University); Visualization: Christian Nieves (STScI); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

#Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #Apep #Science #WolfRayet

Order Amongst the Chaos of Apep | Spaceaustralia

A new paper, led by Macquarie University PhD researcher Ryan White, has helped reveal the spiral and intricate structure of a rare and unique stellar binary system in the Milky Way - Apep, named after the Egyptian mythological God of chaos.
www.spaceaustralia.com
#science #astronomy #astrophysics #Astrodon #jwst #SpaceAustralia #apep #wolfrayet

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