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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens
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star cluster memes worse than your isochrone fit 📉

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Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens @starcluster.meme · Feb 19
astronomers: 'Sensible Units'? ... who is she? I don't know her
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don't know what we'd do without clustering algorithms
A meme of a skeleton lifting captioned "my clustering algorithm is a machine that turns (picture of data) into (picture of data with clusters)"
January 11, 2026 at 9:20 AM
starcluster.meme
don't know what we'd do without clustering algorithms
A meme of a skeleton lifting captioned "my clustering algorithm is a machine that turns (picture of data) into (picture of data with clusters)"
January 11, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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Gaia DPAC this year be like
January 8, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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happy holidays!
may your stars be clustered ✨
and your isochrone fits perfect 👌
December 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
starcluster.meme
tfw your bae half-crops you out of the group pic on insta
esa.int European Space Agency @esa.int · 27d
🆕 This NASA/ESA/CSA #Webb Space Telescope image shows the Westerlund 2 star cluster. 🧪🔭

🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/12/Webb_Dwarf_stars_in_a_glittering_sky

@science.esa.int @stsci.edu
December 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
starcluster.meme
ok hear me out: what if we just removed all dust

(✨ guest submission ✨ by @alexis-space.bsky.social)
A meme of two people's arms shaking each other in agreement. One person is labelled "catalogs of open clusters". The other is labelled "maps of OB stars". They are agreeing on "doomed to be incomplete because of dust".
December 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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make sure to think of Coma Ber this christmas 💔
A meme depicting people having fun at a party. Someone labelled "Coma Ber" is standing in the corner, with the caption "nobody remembers that I'm the second nearest open cluster to the Sun".
December 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
starcluster.meme
wtf i was born 98.2±15 million years ago but Bluesky won't let me enter my birthday
screenshot of age assurance popup on bluesky screenshot of 'my birthdate' and entering 1st January 1 AD, which actually worked (LOL)
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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A grainy picture of the ism, captioned "BAN H2 SELF SHIELDING: Make the ISM SUFFER"
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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it had better make a star cluster when it does 😠
A captioned picture of the dark cloud Barnard 68, that reads: "YO DARK CLOUD IS SO BIG that it has a free-fall collapse time of just 100,000 years"
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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while i_cant_code:
print(silly_memes)
A meme depicting two swear jars. The first swear jar, which is almost empty, is labelled "swear jar". The second, full swear jar, is called "Forgetting to add i+=1 to my while loops and wondering why they never end jar"
November 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
starcluster.meme
so sad. I found out today that the local star formation efficiency is just 8%.

that is such an awfully slow rate of converting the ISM (eww, icky) into star clusters. heartbreaking.
November 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Teaching is very serious business. In other news, I made this critical diagram during the class I was teaching today. Might have to put this into my next NSF proposal
meme that says "Astronomers. is this a standard candle?"
October 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Everyone always asks "where" are the open clusters, but never "how" are the open clusters 😤
October 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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this is what my favourite dust map would look like if dust didn't exist 😠
A blank image.
October 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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wait, what do you mean I need the ISM to make clusters
A meme about struggling to choose between liking or hating the ISM
October 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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O stars were made to be yeeted

✨ guest submission by @alexis-space.bsky.social
A three panel meme. Two men in cars are looking across from each other in the first two panels, with one labelled 'The cluster' and the other 'The poor runaway star ejected from it'. In the third panel, the two cars can be seen diverging from one another at an intersection.
September 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
starcluster.meme
who else remembers this iconic scene from The Mandalorian? 🙏
"I want to see the baby" scene screenshot from mando A badly photoshopped pic of the Orion nebula on top of baby yoda
September 29, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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✨💔
Three pictures of a sad-looking Pablo Escobar captioned with "someone said we're never going to find all the open clusters"
September 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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🧲⚡
A meme showing two Gustavos (the Breaking Bad character), smiling in the first panel but looking distressed in the second. The first panel is captioned "Thank you for your talk...", and the second "... but have you considered magnetic fields?"
September 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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average PhD student
Two doors, one labelled "therapy" and the other "doomscrolling starcluster.meme". The therapy one is empty, the other is not...
September 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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petition to remove dust from the milky way

1 like = 1 dust grain removed
Text on top of a picture of a dust cloud in space. It reads: "Interstellar Medium? More like Interstellar TEDIUM! I don't care about your A V or your R V JUST SHOW ME THE STARS"
September 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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we have gotta get Gaia NIR someday so that we can find them all 😠
A meme of a beast (labelled Gaia DR4) coming after sheep in a medieval-horror scene. The sheep are labelled "all the open clusters that our galaxy keeps for itself". They are protected by a sheepdog labelled "dust".
August 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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do not ask me the forbidden question
A meme depicting two people texting. The first writes "What happens if you don't assume solar metallicity?" While the second is captioned "*blocks phone number*"
July 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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do not ask me the forbidden question
A meme depicting two people texting. The first writes "What happens if you don't assume solar metallicity?" While the second is captioned "*blocks phone number*"
July 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM