Voici un sourire situé à plus de 4.5 milliards d'années-lumière de nous. L'amas de galaxies SDSS J1038+4849 est tellement massif qu'il déforme la lumière des galaxies en arrière plan, formant des arcs de cercle. Bon dimanche, avec le sourire ! (©Hubble/Schmidt)

My painting SAGUARO

"Losing Our Democracy": Workers & Immigrants Lead Nationwide May Day Protests Against Trump

Revised version of a new, short (-ish!) review on planet formation theory:

arxiv.org/abs/2412.11064

Wondering about the "signature of life" found beyond our Solar System? I wrote a thread for the Carl Sagan Institute critiquing the evidence for exoplanet K2-18 b:

being alive is great because there are so many colours you can try out in matplotlib. but then there is also the horrors

The American Astronomical Society is gravely concerned by the deep cuts to NASA science funding reported to be in the draft President’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2026. Read more here: aas.org/press/aas-st... and take action now: aas.org/urge-nasa-su...

“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

~The Great Gatsby

doomscrolling on the AAS job registry

Kurt Vonnegut man

Probing the Limits of Habitability: A Catalog of Rocky Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone. Abigail Bohl et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14054

Proverbs from ancient Mesopotamia are full of wisdom and humour. Keeping in mind that proverbs helped students practice the Sumerian language at school, it’s a reminder that teachers might have used humour to make lessons more memorable.

“Like a flatulent anus, the mouth produces too many words”

That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.