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Monika I. Jurkovic
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Astrophysicist at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade. Type II and Anomalous Cepheids.
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Life changing events 💕🥰
Gate opening close up and a sunset on a lake in the background.
October 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Reflecting on the past 25 years... I have a feeling I have wasted a lot of time and energy ... Maybe the 25 will be better.
Sitting at the audience on a conference
August 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Mindscape 326 | Natalie Batalha on What We Know and Will Learn About Exoplanets. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape episode with Natalie Batalha
August 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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It is raining today.
May 8, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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In Serbia we all need energy so we can continue to pump
Coffee on a table
March 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Well... This is how long things were going well.

I just feel devastated by life.

Maybe tomorrow will get better...
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Life... I got everything I wished for just not in a way that most people would consider ,,normal"... Well... Let's hope for the best.
February 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Thank you #Gaia
esa.int European Space Agency @esa.int · Jan 15
The ESA #Gaia mission has delivered the best Milky Way maps to date and taken its last starlight before spacecraft retirement 🔭

www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like face-on: as viewed from above the disc of the galaxy, with its spiral arms and bulge in full view. In the centre of the galaxy, the bulge shines as a hazy oval, emitting a faint golden gleam. Starting at the central bulge, several glistening spiral arms coil outwards, creating a perfectly circle-shaped spiral. They give the impression of someone having sprinkled pastel purple glitter on the pitch-black background, in the shape of sparkling, curled-up snakes. A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like edge-on, against a pitch-black backdrop. The Milky Way’s disc appears in the centre of the image, as a thin, dark-brown line spanning from left to right, with the hint of a wave in it. The line appears to be etched into a thin glowing layer of silver sand, that makes it look as if it was drawn with a coloured pencil on coarse paper. The bulge of the galaxy sits like a glowing, see-through pearl in the shape of a sphere in the centre of this brown line
January 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Life... I got everything I wished for just not in a way that most people would consider ,,normal"... Well... Let's hope for the best.
December 20, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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I have slowed down and changed the direction of my life. Everything is different.

I know I had to try this route, but since there are no guarantees in life for anything I cannot stop feeling anxious and stressed and lost. ... I can only hope that I will find some good times and happiness 🙏
November 26, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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Please consider publishing in Serbian Astronomical Journal. It is peer reviewed, IF=0.500, no page charges, full open access journal.
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September 18, 2023 at 10:01 AM
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Back and forth... But soon no more travelling by bus.
The Danube river from the bridge crossing Beška. Picture taken from the bus, so two rows of empty bus seats are in the foreground.
November 16, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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Been to a wonderful conference in Cefalu, Italy. The science was great, the food was even better, but the location was the best. Thank you for organizing it. 😊
Sunset in Cefalu Cefalu beach Cefalu old gate Cefalu overview
September 28, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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It is 2 PM, and so far my day consisted of pure management tasks... When will I have time to do science?!!!
September 12, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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Come and see an exhibition about perimeno pause and menopause and female health in Subotica, Serbia.
Invitation to the opening of an exhibition in Subotica, Serbia on the 31st of August, 2024 at 5 PM. A dark haired female from the back draws green lines on a canvas.
August 28, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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A team of researchers led by MPIA's @elisabethastro.bsky.social used JWST to image an old cold gas giant exoplanet. The measurement opens the door to studying cold Jupiter-like planets on wide orbits around old stars to test model 🔭
www.mpia.de/news/science...
Webb images nearest super-Jupiter, opening a new window to exoplanet research
James Webb Space Telescope delivers image of the coldest exoplanet ever observed, opening a new chapter in exoplanet research.
www.mpia.de
July 24, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Whatever is in anesthesia mix for short term anesthesia, I love it. 💖 I haven't felt so relaxed and carefree in years.
July 20, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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It was 40+ degrees these days and it is still not getting better... But the sky is blue and the clouds are pretty.
Blue sky with clouds and street view with trees Street with park and trees and the sky with clouds
July 15, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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salty stars! Stardust Episode 12: Sodium is now available !! 🧂 youtu.be/6Jn2wYKpx4Y?...
Stardust episode 12: Sodium
The salt in our stars!
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April 30, 2024 at 4:25 AM
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I also waited three hours at the gynecologist's office (public health system and I can't change the office) so that she would tell me I probably have cancer... Which she already misdiagnosed six months ago. I didn't have cancer then and I probably don't have it now either.

Not having a good time.
April 19, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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Still waiting for the time when I will post happy, cheerful things... Until then: I have had a bad day, and I can't do anything about it. Nor will I be able to do anything about it tomorrow, nor the day after... And so on.
April 5, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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Applications are open for this year's International Astronomical Youth Camp (IAYC) - a three-week long summer camp for young people aged 16 to 24 from all over the world - taking place 4-24 August 2024 in Germany!
Application deadline: 17 March 🔭
More info: iayc.org/nextcamp/
Poster announcing the 58th International Astronomical Youth Camp 2024, taking place 4-24 August 2024 in Klingenthal, Germany. In the background an image of the night sky with a lookout tower in the forest
February 12, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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UVEX was selected!! We will continue to have a UV window on the universe, hooray!! 🧪🔭🛰️
New NASA Mission will Study Ultraviolet Sky, Stars, Stellar Explosions - NASA
As NASA explores the unknown in air and space, a new mission to survey ultraviolet light across the entire sky will provide the agency with more insight into
www.nasa.gov
February 13, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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The PHANGS collaboration, led by MPIA astronomer Eva Schinnerer, released stunning infrared images of 19 nearby galaxies taken with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) today
www.mpia.de/news/2024-ph...
Collection of 19 false-color images showing the fine structure of the spiral arms of spiral galaxies
January 29, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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Since January 1st 2024, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society is charging an APC of £2,310 (approx. €2690) per paper for Open Access publication.

That's more *for one paper* than the entire annual running costs of the Open Journal of Astrophysics.
January 19, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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Biggest astrophysics news of 2023? 🔭🧪

IMO, gotta be the strongest evidence yet of nanohertz-regime gravitational waves, announced by global pulsar timing array teams in June!

A little biased here though (am an author on papers!)

www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aust...

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Graphic showing the Earth at the centre of a warped space-time grid. On the grid, surrounding the Earth are several pulsars whose beams are being distorted with space-time. In the distance, and on the edges of the image, are swirling binary black holes.
December 28, 2023 at 10:01 PM