Excellent reporting!

Perhaps he needs to farm some 1900s in Midwest USA

I would lose every position you showed here with both colors

Had to double check the outlet lol

The arxiv needs more papers like this!

I’m an astronomy PhD candidate who is interested in joining the community on bluesky.

Yes

“Terrible negotiating strategy” implies that there’s some kind of plan here. But the only plan i can figure out from Trump II looks constructed to destroy the United States

Very cool

The spatial resolution obviously won’t match something like NIRCam, but it’s very much designed to be in the same vein as Roman + Euclid. Large surveys of astrophysical data are the future

Haha no worries, thanks for sharing :)

R = 35-130 from 0.75 to 5 microns per spherex.caltech.edu

From what I’ve seen and read — it is a near-infrared observatory. It will efficiently make scans of the entire sky over the next two years in order to create all-sky maps in the NIR. It will study cosmic inflation, take spectra of hundreds of millions of galaxies, and study water in our own galaxy.

Did not see this what??? 128 NEW moons?