Dr Adam Sterling
@dr-a-sterling.bsky.social
Astrophysicist, motorbike romantic, frequent source of island scandal. My Tenerife diaries blur fact and fiction:
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Two stones. One is a dead secret. The other is a living, breathing ultimatum.
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DIARY — 04 AUGUST, 2025: The Observer Effect — Dr Adam Sterling
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August 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Two stones. One is a dead secret. The other is a living, breathing ultimatum.
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My data on the anomalous signal has been erased, and I just received a thinly-veiled threat from a colleague to drop it. But I'm not alone, and the warm volcanic pebble left in my locked apartment is the first piece of evidence in an investigation they can't delete.
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DIARY — 02 AUGUST, 2025 — Dr Adam Sterling
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August 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
My data on the anomalous signal has been erased, and I just received a thinly-veiled threat from a colleague to drop it. But I'm not alone, and the warm volcanic pebble left in my locked apartment is the first piece of evidence in an investigation they can't delete.
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🗓️ 31 July 2025
First day atop the mountain: survived jet lag, got lost, met legends (and a telescope that might be haunted). Saw the sea of clouds at dawn, worth every sleepless moment. Turns out, the mountain has secrets.
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#ObservatoryLife #AstroDiaries
First day atop the mountain: survived jet lag, got lost, met legends (and a telescope that might be haunted). Saw the sea of clouds at dawn, worth every sleepless moment. Turns out, the mountain has secrets.
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#ObservatoryLife #AstroDiaries
DIARY — 31 JULY, 2025 — Dr Adam Sterling
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July 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🗓️ 31 July 2025
First day atop the mountain: survived jet lag, got lost, met legends (and a telescope that might be haunted). Saw the sea of clouds at dawn, worth every sleepless moment. Turns out, the mountain has secrets.
buymeacoffee.com/drsterling/d...
#ObservatoryLife #AstroDiaries
First day atop the mountain: survived jet lag, got lost, met legends (and a telescope that might be haunted). Saw the sea of clouds at dawn, worth every sleepless moment. Turns out, the mountain has secrets.
buymeacoffee.com/drsterling/d...
#ObservatoryLife #AstroDiaries
🌌 Right, so the thing about combining astrophysics with sunburn, improbable romance, and a suspiciously clever observatory cat on Tenerife is... you get my new project: Dr. Adam Sterling’s Tenerife Diaries!
July 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🌌 Right, so the thing about combining astrophysics with sunburn, improbable romance, and a suspiciously clever observatory cat on Tenerife is... you get my new project: Dr. Adam Sterling’s Tenerife Diaries!
It's clear the current tourism model is straining our islands. Serious concerns here in Tenerife about the impact on resources, fragile ecosystems, and housing.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
#CanaryIslands #Tenerife #SustainableTourism #Overtourism #ScienceAndSociety
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#CanaryIslands #Tenerife #SustainableTourism #Overtourism #ScienceAndSociety
Thousands protest in Spain's Canary Islands over mass tourism
Thousands of people protested in Tenerife on Saturday, calling for the Spanish island to temporarily limit tourist arrivals to stem a boom in short-term holiday rentals and hotel construction that is driving up housing costs for locals.
www.reuters.com
April 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
It's clear the current tourism model is straining our islands. Serious concerns here in Tenerife about the impact on resources, fragile ecosystems, and housing.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
#CanaryIslands #Tenerife #SustainableTourism #Overtourism #ScienceAndSociety
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
#CanaryIslands #Tenerife #SustainableTourism #Overtourism #ScienceAndSociety
From La Palma, the Gran Telescopio Canarias achieves 1000+ publications - from the earliest galaxies to nearby exoplanets. Each paper a small step, collectively a giant leap in understanding our Universe. #GTC #Astronomy #CanaryIslands #Astrophysics lapalmastars.com/en/roque-de-...
Roque de los Muchachos Observatory: A fundamental pillar for modern astrophysics with the Gran Telescopio de Canarias - AstroLaPalma
The Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma and the Gran Telescopio Canarias, pillars of world astrophysics
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April 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
From La Palma, the Gran Telescopio Canarias achieves 1000+ publications - from the earliest galaxies to nearby exoplanets. Each paper a small step, collectively a giant leap in understanding our Universe. #GTC #Astronomy #CanaryIslands #Astrophysics lapalmastars.com/en/roque-de-...
A super-Earth, just 59 light-years away.
Discovered by an IAC-led team, GJ 3998 d orbits in the habitable zone of its red dwarf star—six Earth masses, and only 20% more starlight than us.
The sky never rushes. It just waits to be read.
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#Exoplanets #Astrophysics #IAC
Discovered by an IAC-led team, GJ 3998 d orbits in the habitable zone of its red dwarf star—six Earth masses, and only 20% more starlight than us.
The sky never rushes. It just waits to be read.
🛰️ www.iac.es/en/outreach/...
#Exoplanets #Astrophysics #IAC
IAC discovers a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf
An international team, led by a student from Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has detected a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of GJ 3998, a nearby red dwarf located 59 ly away. Th...
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April 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
A super-Earth, just 59 light-years away.
Discovered by an IAC-led team, GJ 3998 d orbits in the habitable zone of its red dwarf star—six Earth masses, and only 20% more starlight than us.
The sky never rushes. It just waits to be read.
🛰️ www.iac.es/en/outreach/...
#Exoplanets #Astrophysics #IAC
Discovered by an IAC-led team, GJ 3998 d orbits in the habitable zone of its red dwarf star—six Earth masses, and only 20% more starlight than us.
The sky never rushes. It just waits to be read.
🛰️ www.iac.es/en/outreach/...
#Exoplanets #Astrophysics #IAC
Somehow both wired and calm
April 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Somehow both wired and calm
Rode the coast this morning before the wind picked up.
Coffee tasted like burnt sugar.
Sky looked like it remembered something it couldn’t quite say.
Some days I feel the same.
#MotorbikeMornings #TenerifeVibes #SmallMoments
Coffee tasted like burnt sugar.
Sky looked like it remembered something it couldn’t quite say.
Some days I feel the same.
#MotorbikeMornings #TenerifeVibes #SmallMoments
April 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Rode the coast this morning before the wind picked up.
Coffee tasted like burnt sugar.
Sky looked like it remembered something it couldn’t quite say.
Some days I feel the same.
#MotorbikeMornings #TenerifeVibes #SmallMoments
Coffee tasted like burnt sugar.
Sky looked like it remembered something it couldn’t quite say.
Some days I feel the same.
#MotorbikeMornings #TenerifeVibes #SmallMoments
Some days are about precision. Equations. Models.
Others are messier. Louder. More human.
Both end in notes scrawled in the margins.
#LifeInTheDetails #IslandLiving #BlurredEdges
Others are messier. Louder. More human.
Both end in notes scrawled in the margins.
#LifeInTheDetails #IslandLiving #BlurredEdges
April 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Some days are about precision. Equations. Models.
Others are messier. Louder. More human.
Both end in notes scrawled in the margins.
#LifeInTheDetails #IslandLiving #BlurredEdges
Others are messier. Louder. More human.
Both end in notes scrawled in the margins.
#LifeInTheDetails #IslandLiving #BlurredEdges
Tenerife skies at dusk are their own kind of religion.
You don’t need faith—just a telescope and time.
(Though faith helps, some nights.)
#Astrophysics #TenerifeNights #WritingLife
You don’t need faith—just a telescope and time.
(Though faith helps, some nights.)
#Astrophysics #TenerifeNights #WritingLife
April 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Tenerife skies at dusk are their own kind of religion.
You don’t need faith—just a telescope and time.
(Though faith helps, some nights.)
#Astrophysics #TenerifeNights #WritingLife
You don’t need faith—just a telescope and time.
(Though faith helps, some nights.)
#Astrophysics #TenerifeNights #WritingLife
Cardio under the Canarian sun. Some runs are for fitness, others for forgetting. Today? Maybe both.
April 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Cardio under the Canarian sun. Some runs are for fitness, others for forgetting. Today? Maybe both.