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Natalie Myers
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Astrophysics grad student in my final year at TCU. My research focuses on stellar abundances and Galactic chemical evolution 🔭🌌✨

In the crazy event I have free time I enjoy painting, playing video games and reading 📚🎨
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The ESA #Gaia mission has delivered the best Milky Way maps to date and taken its last starlight before spacecraft retirement 🔭

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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 12:03 PM
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I had the incredible opportunity to present my research on Monday at the American Astronomical Society meeting ( #AAS245)! It’s been an amazing meeting so far, and I look forward to hearing about more awesome projects in the next couple of days.
January 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #913,612!

Who would’ve thought?
October 7, 2024 at 9:08 PM