Every Friday, 10am Pacific, 1pm East, 7pm CET, we are having LSDB/HATS drop-in office hours, answering questions and coworking on scalable analysis in Astronomy. More details at docs.lsdb.io/en/latest/co...
February 15 is deadline for 10th iteration of our LINCC Frameworks Incubator program (lsstdiscoveryalliance.org/lsst-discove...). We help astronomers turn ideas into scalable, reusable software by pairing them with experienced engineers and providing funding. Simple application process.
John, I am not well versed in baseball - why are Seattle Mariners so (pretty much) universally loved?!?
A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars.
A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!
Can you guess these regions of sky?
This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪
#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
Our Gaia mission is going to be switched off tomorrow, 27 March.
The spacecraft might be going into retirement, but the science continues with two major data releases in preparation for 2026 and 2030.
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Applications are open for our visiting grad student program (pre-doc program) at the CCA @flatironinstitute.org!
Reach out if you're a student interested in:
- Preparing for Gaia DR4
- Stellar streams
- Data-driven methods for spectroscopy
(and want to apply!)
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The Astropy Project is made by our community, for our community. But who are we, exactly?
We want *your* input in the first astropy user survey:
forms.gle/KX2cNuFsQYgV...
Share how you use astropy, how to improve it, and how we can support you and your work! 🧪🔭
Join us at University of Washington to work on large data science, Rubin, and your favorite statistical/machine learning/AI science! aas.org/jobregister/...
We @flatironinstitute.org are hiring a research scientist (open rank) at the CCA! Our priority areas are (1) plasma, (2) cosmological surveys, (3) stellar theory, (4) machine learning in astro, and (5) software & statistical techniques for astro. Reach out if yr interested!
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aas.org/jobregister/...
Tomorrow, Dec 7, join us LINCC tech talk at 10h PT=13h ET=15 CST=19h CET on Zoom (ls.st/lincc-talks). We will hear from Meg Schwamb and Kaylee de Soto, about Sorcha (github.com/dirac-instit...) and Superphot+ (github.com/VTDA-Group/s...); first beneficiaries of LINCC incubator program!
Tomorrow, join us for LINCC tech talk at 10h PT = 13h ET = 15 CST = 19h CET on Zoom (ls.st/lincc-talks). We will hear from Luis Marti, representing Inria Chile Institute, who will discuss their machine learning and artificial intelligence work on modeling complex systems.
Excited to give a talk about LINCC (lsstcorporation.org/lincc/framew...) here at US research software engineer conference (us-rse.org/usrse23/)! Interesting mix of discussions about software, science, research, coding practices, pipelines and infrastructure.
