Dr Amanda Bauer

Two satellite proposals threaten dark and quiet skies worldwide Giant mirrors in space to create sunlight at night and an AI data center made up of 1-million satellites are undergoing regulatory approval. How did we get here?

An excellent summary of the latest satellite proposals threatening the night sky & how to voice concerns. astrobites.org/2026/02/26/r...

📢 Roman SOC Newsletter – December ’25 is out!

✅ Cycle 1 Call for Proposals now open (due Mar 17) 📅
✅ Observatory fully integrated & tested at Goddard 💪
✅ Data pipeline & archive prep underway 🛠️
✅ Webinars + tools to prep for Cycle 1 and proposals 💻

🔗 www.stsci.edu/contents/new...

We're getting SO CLOSE to the reveal of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's first images on June 23! So let's take a walk down memory lane 🎞️

Come with us through 10 memorable moments from the past 10+ years of building Rubin 🔭

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📷: H. Stockebrand

Fund astronomy, not genocide. You can help save cosmic science for future generations. This figure by Skylar Grayson shows how much the univese we will be cut off from studying using...

SAVE COSMIC SCIENCE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS!

I wrote about the current astronomy/particle physics/cosmology 🔭 ⚛️🧪 funding catastrophe in context of all of the other ongoing catastrophes, including what we can do to save our science.

h/t to @skylargrayson.bsky.social for posting the image.

Excited to see this - my calendar is marked!

First 🍀 of the season found!

They were astronomers Unlike at most other observatories in the early 20th century, women working at Yerkes Observatory were able to earn graduate degrees. Here are some of their sto

"Unlike at most other observatories in the early 20th century, women working at Yerkes Observatory were able to earn graduate degrees. Here are some of their stories." Article by Kristine Palmieri in Physics Today
doi.org/10.1063/PT.3...

UC grad finds success following her passion, studying the stars Amanda Bauer might have spent her career travelling the globe with a degree in French, but the future had other plans. Instead, she found her calling in astronomy through UC’s College of Arts and Sc...

Here is a nice article on the influence my undergrad days at the University of Cincinnati had on my career.

www.uc.edu/news/article...