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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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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
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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
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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
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the horrors. the horrors that I have made emcee commit on my behalf
A meme of a disturbed-looking doll, captioned "Me looking at the results of my isochrone fitting code"
July 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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A meme comparing a crappy car to a star cluster (obviously not crappy.) The meme concludes by soliciting DMs from any meme-viewers who want to know my favourite star clusters.
July 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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NGC 2516 is the best one though
A meme showing a man and a woman talking through a car window. The man begins with a remark: "Yeah, I know the NGC catalogue" to which she replies "Okay, then name one entry." he replies "NGC 1?" and she says "That's on me, I set the bar too low."
July 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Workflow for 90% of astronomy papers:

fit model -> make corner plot -> publish paper -> repeat
A meme showing a skeleton lifting weights. The caption reads: emcee is a machine that turns CPU time into corner plots.
July 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Happy Monday, everyone! 🫠
A meme that depicts a small cat crying over an Xbox controller. The meme is captioned "when you log on to the server to check the simulation results but your code crashed in the night"
July 14, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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the ghosts of crossmatches past 👻
A meme depicting people on a roller coaster. The people, labelled "some 'new' star clusters you just found", are terrified of another roller coaster capsule going by them, which contains the undead and is labelled "papers from the 1990s you forgot to crossmatch against".
July 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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what even is a Jansky 😭
A meme of an orangutan on a bike chasing a child. The orangutan is labelled "Janskys". The child is labelled "new grad students in astronomy"
July 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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It's not about how close we are, Hyades. It's about your total integrated flux. It just doesn't compare. 🫤
A meme. The upper panel shows two people kissing, labelled as "Mayan religion 2 millennia ago" and " the Pleiades." The lower panel shows someone in the distance looking left out, labelled as "the Hyades".
July 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM