beck maier (they/them)
@erinaceous.bsky.social
actually 10 porgs in a trench coat (astrophysicist, telescope operator, views my own) ⭐💚 #LGBTQinSTEM, 💛🤍💜🖤 they/them
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#Bookbundle Last full day to pick up the Pride StoryBundle! We’re closing in on $800 raised for Rainbow Railroad and you can get a book bundle with amazing queer books in it! There are so many good reads in here this year - it is such a deal!
Come celebrate Pride with us with our 2025 Pride Bundle, curated as always by Catherine Lundoff and Melissa Scott! storybundle.com/pride
July 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
#Bookbundle Last full day to pick up the Pride StoryBundle! We’re closing in on $800 raised for Rainbow Railroad and you can get a book bundle with amazing queer books in it! There are so many good reads in here this year - it is such a deal!
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Oh my god, this is what we are singing all summer to fight fascism.
“The scars are part of me. Darkness and harmony. My voice without the lies. This is what it sounds like.”
“The scars are part of me. Darkness and harmony. My voice without the lies. This is what it sounds like.”
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July 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Oh my god, this is what we are singing all summer to fight fascism.
“The scars are part of me. Darkness and harmony. My voice without the lies. This is what it sounds like.”
“The scars are part of me. Darkness and harmony. My voice without the lies. This is what it sounds like.”
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FACT THREAD on New Interstellar Object #A11pl3Z
This story unfolded pretty fast yesterday for a few reasons. The object was discovered on July 1st UTC by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS team. A #NASA funded survey at the University of Hawaii. atlas.fallingstar.com 🔭🧪
This story unfolded pretty fast yesterday for a few reasons. The object was discovered on July 1st UTC by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS team. A #NASA funded survey at the University of Hawaii. atlas.fallingstar.com 🔭🧪
July 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
FACT THREAD on New Interstellar Object #A11pl3Z
This story unfolded pretty fast yesterday for a few reasons. The object was discovered on July 1st UTC by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS team. A #NASA funded survey at the University of Hawaii. atlas.fallingstar.com 🔭🧪
This story unfolded pretty fast yesterday for a few reasons. The object was discovered on July 1st UTC by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS team. A #NASA funded survey at the University of Hawaii. atlas.fallingstar.com 🔭🧪
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on sky in about half an hour to try to go after this little guy, presumably soon to receive the "3I/ATLAS" label
ANOTHER UPDATE on interstellar object #A11pl3Z:
Even MORE early obs from June 14-21 were found from the Zwicky Transient Facility!
Now with 18 days of data, we have a lower eccentricity of e=6.11±0.14 for A11pl3Z's hyperbolic trajectory.
(Sam Deen also notes ATLAS obs from Jun 4-17, unsubmitted)
🔭☄️
Even MORE early obs from June 14-21 were found from the Zwicky Transient Facility!
Now with 18 days of data, we have a lower eccentricity of e=6.11±0.14 for A11pl3Z's hyperbolic trajectory.
(Sam Deen also notes ATLAS obs from Jun 4-17, unsubmitted)
🔭☄️
July 2, 2025 at 8:39 AM
on sky in about half an hour to try to go after this little guy, presumably soon to receive the "3I/ATLAS" label
Observing night just ended here at the LDT, and it was a hectic one because of this guy…hope some useful data made it out of the clouds.
Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System!
ESA’s Planetary Defenders are observing the object, provisionally known as #A11pl3Z, right now using telescopes around the world.
ESA’s Planetary Defenders are observing the object, provisionally known as #A11pl3Z, right now using telescopes around the world.
July 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Observing night just ended here at the LDT, and it was a hectic one because of this guy…hope some useful data made it out of the clouds.
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UPDATE on our new interstellar friend #A11pl3Z:
Citizen scientist Sam Deen has found earlier observations of from June 25-28, from the ATLAS telescope!
Now with 6 days' worth of data, the eccentricity of A11pl3Z's trajectory is narrowed down to e=10.4 ± 1.1!
... that's undoubtedly interstellar.
🔭☄️
Citizen scientist Sam Deen has found earlier observations of from June 25-28, from the ATLAS telescope!
Now with 6 days' worth of data, the eccentricity of A11pl3Z's trajectory is narrowed down to e=10.4 ± 1.1!
... that's undoubtedly interstellar.
🔭☄️
July 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
UPDATE on our new interstellar friend #A11pl3Z:
Citizen scientist Sam Deen has found earlier observations of from June 25-28, from the ATLAS telescope!
Now with 6 days' worth of data, the eccentricity of A11pl3Z's trajectory is narrowed down to e=10.4 ± 1.1!
... that's undoubtedly interstellar.
🔭☄️
Citizen scientist Sam Deen has found earlier observations of from June 25-28, from the ATLAS telescope!
Now with 6 days' worth of data, the eccentricity of A11pl3Z's trajectory is narrowed down to e=10.4 ± 1.1!
... that's undoubtedly interstellar.
🔭☄️
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Hey! Give @erinaceous.bsky.social a follow! They did really cool calibration work for Roman CGI and are now working at Lowell on the Discovery Telescope. 🔭
August 16, 2023 at 10:13 AM
Hey! Give @erinaceous.bsky.social a follow! They did really cool calibration work for Roman CGI and are now working at Lowell on the Discovery Telescope. 🔭