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Paarmita Pandey
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Astronomy grad student at Ohio State 🔭✨Cosmic Rays | Stellar Feedback | Transients 💫
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Paarmita Pandey @astrofermi.bsky.social · Nov 19

It's PAPER DAY 📣 My first first-author paper is now published in ApJ 🎉
Read about how star clusters contribute as galactic cosmic ray sources. Comments and questions are welcome 🤗
Gamma-Ray Emission from the Star-forming Region RCW 38

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Constraining the Diffusion Coefficient and Cosmic-Ray Acceleration Efficiency Using Gamma-Ray Emission from the Star-forming Region RCW 38 - IOPscienceSearchopens in new tab
Constraining the Diffusion Coefficient and Cosmic-Ray Acceleration Efficiency Using Gamma-Ray Emission from the Star-forming Region RCW 38, Paarmita Pandey, Laura A. Lopez, Anna L. Rosen, Todd A. Thom...
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astrojaket.bsky.social
Aurora Science 🔭🧪

What do the colors of the aurora tell you 👇
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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ohdearz.bsky.social
Excited to attend the @astrosociety.org gala tonight & receive the Nancy Grace Roman Award! I read about her life & career on my way here. Did you know she was responsible for making NASA data archives public so that everyone could benefit, not just PIs? Such an amazing impact on our field. 🔭
November 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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danmil.bsky.social
Another title for this article could be: “Superman Outshines Scary Barbie”

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/s...
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
astrofermi.bsky.social
Happy Halloween 🎃 from Lana Purr Ray
November 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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astrobites.bsky.social
From Kylee Carden: Though moons are ubiquitous in our Solar System, we have not yet found one elsewhere (an exomoon). Today’s paper investigates whether we could find moons by precisely tracking the positions of a star and planet. 🔭✨☄️
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Finding Avatar’s Pandora: Exomoons with Astrometry
Though moons are ubiquitous in our Solar System, we have not yet found one elsewhere (an exomoon). Today’s paper investigates whether we could find moons by precisely tracking the positions of a star ...
astrobites.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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lumamentoring.bsky.social
Did you know LUMA was founded 10 years ago by Prof. Catherine Espaillat? We celebrated our 10th anniversary at AAS this January 🎉 . Learn more about LUMA at our website
LUMA
The League of Underrepresented Minoritized Astronomers (LUMA) is a peer mentoring community for Black/Indigenous/Latinx womxn who are graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty, and…
www.lumamentoring.com
August 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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pjvphotography.bsky.social
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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ohdearz.bsky.social
Tips and resources for those who would be interested in pursuing an astro PhD outside this US and applying for programs this Fall, put together by Floor Broekgaarden, Ana Lam, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Deana Tanguay! 🔭 docs.google.com/document/u/0...
August 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
astrofermi.bsky.social
My first ever ToO got approved!! I am so excited for the new observations of the ambiguous nuclear transient I am studying. Paper coming soon to arXiv 😃
July 31, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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ohdearz.bsky.social
OSU astronomy undergrad alum Trinity Webb and OSU astro PhD student @astrojennifer.bsky.social led this Chandra program showing diffuse X-rays coincident with very young stars identified with JWST! Here's this great work: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ....
July 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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emily.space
Postdoc in #stellarastro at the ICCUB in Barcelona ☄️

Everyone I know from the astro community in Barcelona is lovely, so I can highly recommend it!
icc-ub.bsky.social Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona @icc-ub.bsky.social · Jul 1
🚨 #MSCA Postdoc Fellowship in Stellar Physics at #ICCUB!

✨Join cutting-edge research on star formation, evolution & exoplanet habitability

🗓️ Deadline: Aug 20, 2025
📩 Apply: [email protected]

🔗https://icc.ub.edu/node/1151639
#Astrophysics #MSCA #PostdocJobs #StellarPhysics #WomenInScience #Barcelona
July 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
Magnificent portrait of a woman, 1620, by Artemisia Gentileschi. She was born on this day in 1593.
July 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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universal-sci.bsky.social
RCW 38 a young star cluster about 5,500 light-years away containing roughly 2,000 stars.

The cluster is rich in star-forming activity, with gas, dust, and newly formed stars, including some still wrapped in their birth cocoons!

(Credit: ESO/VVVX survey)
July 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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ohdearz.bsky.social
Just saw the exciting news that Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (prof at @ucscscience.bsky.social and my PhD advisor) was named the president of the @astrosociety.org!! 🎉🔭 news.ucsc.edu/2025/06/enri...
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz named president of Astronomical Society of the Pacific
UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist is the first Latino president in society's 135-year history
news.ucsc.edu
June 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
"After completing the two years of required courses in OSU’s PhD program, Joy decided to start transitioning in 2022. This was the culmination of feelings she’d been having since she was 8 years old."

🔭🧪🏳️‍⚧️

astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...
Transgender in Astronomy: Interview with Joy Bhattacharya
For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Joy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University!
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June 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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ohdearz.bsky.social
The 2025 #NASA astrophysics senior review report is public. "Every mission received the highest possible rating for... scientific return", & are "producing important, impactful science in a cost-effective manner". Some important screenshots: assets.science.nasa.gov/content/dam/...
The Panel appreciates the significant budget uncertainties facing NASA, SMD, and APD. The Panel recognizes the particular gravity of this report relative to those reports in the recent past. The Panel nevertheless strongly believes that each mission under review continues to be capable of producing important, impactful science in a cost-effective manner and would do so if allowed to continue operations into the next extended mission cycle. This belief remains true if missions had to be extended with reduced capability, reduced community resources, or both. Cuts to community resources or capabilities will reduce the science output of these missions, but the missions remain viable and productive. Furthermore, many of the most insightful science results arise from combining the observations of more than one mission in NASA’s fleet, leveraging complementary capabilities.
June 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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billfromdashore.bsky.social
Introducing Dr. Alison Duck, PhD (Astronomy), The Ohio State University (and soon Jet Propulsion Lab)!
@astroalison.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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ohdearz.bsky.social
I think the budget request for NASA just went up, cutting NASA astrophysics to 34% (and NASA science to 53%) of FY2024 levels and zeroing STEM engagement. 🔭 www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budg...
NASA FY2026 budget request screenshot. 3.9076B for science, 523M for astrophysics, down substantially from 2024.
May 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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bodegacats.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.
Tinsel the calico glares at you with a furrowed brow
May 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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science.esa.int
Happy anniversary, Hubble! 🎂

Celebrate 35 years since this NASA/ESA space telescope was launched into orbit with four anniversary images! They roam from the planet Mars to dramatic images of stellar birth and death to a neighbouring galaxy.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

#Hubble35 🔭 🧪
Two views of planet Mars on a black background of space observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. At left, text: December 28, 2024 20:00 UT. At right, text: December 29, 2024 13:18 UT. In both images, its atmosphere is clear and the surface appears detailed. Most of the planet is shades of orange. At left, the brightest orange area appears in the left half. At right, the brightest orange area is centered and takes on the rough shape of a sleeping mask. In both views, darker surface features are noticeable on the lower half of the planet. These have a mix of orange, blue, and gray hues. At the top and bottom, white regions mark the planet’s polar caps. The entire limb of the planet, its visible edge, has a blue hue. The blue doesn’t form an even circle at the edges, and appears thinner toward the left and right, and thicker in some areas. The planetary nebula NGC 2899 is shaped like a single macaroni noodle, with its edges pointed up, but its edge-on central torus is semi-transparent in the middle. The top and bottom edges are thick and orange. The center is semi-transparent blue and green. The wider central region looks roughly like a moth, also filled with semi-transparent blue and green. There are two pinpoint-like white stars with diffraction spikes toward the center. Immediately below them, slightly toward the right, is a smaller blue orb, a central star. The next layer of gas and dust is whiter, with some thicker pillars that look like they are rising up at bottom center. The colour fades into reds and purples, and then to orange. A tiny portion of the Rosette Nebula. Very dark gray material shaped like a V extends from just below top left all the way down to the lower right corner and back up toward the top right. It looks like thick smoke that has billowed out irregularly, thicker along the line from top left to bottom right, and looser on the piece that goes toward the top right. Behind the dark gray on the left side, from the bottom left to top center, there is dust that looks like arced claw marks that appears in light orange and yellow. The background at top left is hazier and some blues are covered in semi-transparent orange wisps, which makes sections take on green hues. In the bottom right, the background is bluer. There are a few bright red and purple stars scattered along the right half, most toward the bottom. The largest star is at right-center, just at the edge. It is red and has four diffraction spikes. Barred spiral galaxy NGC 5335 observed by the Hubble Space Telescope takes up the majority of the view. At its center is a milky yellow, flattened oval that extends bottom left to top. Within the oval is a bright central region that looks circular, with the very center the brightest. In the bright central region is what looks like a bar, extending from top left to bottom right. Around this is a thick swath of blue stars speckled with white regions. Multiple arms wrap up and around in a counterclockwise direction, becoming fainter the farther out they are. Both the white core and the spiral arms are intertwined with dark streaks of dust. The background of space is black. Thousands of distant galaxies in an array of colors are speckled throughout.
April 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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astrobites.bsky.social
From Astrobites: There is a tradition in Astronomy to post silly science papers to the arXiv on Aprils Fools day. We’ve collected them all for 2025 and provided some “peer review”. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/04/03/a...
The April Fools Paper Review Process – 2025
There is a tradition in Astronomy to post silly science papers to the arXiv on Aprils Fools day. We’ve collected them all for 2025 and provided some “peer review”.
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April 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Hubble data was combined with Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Spitzer, and ALMA Observatory data for this composite image of 30 Doradus, seen in X-ray, visible, infrared, and radio. The massive young stars in 30 Doradus send strong winds out into space. Credit: NASA/CXC/JPL /ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/ALMA. 🔭 🧪
A highly detailed composite image of a star-forming region of space known as 30 Doradus. X-ray wind and gas takes the shape of a massive purple and pink bouquet with an extended central flower, or perhaps a leaf from a maple tree. The hazy, mottled shape occupies much of the image, positioned just left of center, tilted slightly left. Inside the purple and pink gas and wind cloud are red and orange veins, and pockets of bright white light. The pockets of white light represent clusters of young stars. One cluster at the heart of 30 Doradus houses the most massive stars astronomers have ever found. The hazy purple and pink bouquet is surrounded by glowing dots of green, white, orange, and red. A second mottled purple cloud shape, which resembles a ring of smoke, sits in the lower righthand corner.
April 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM