@TSHamiltonAstro

🇺🇸 Mild-mannered professor by day. Astrophysicist by night. Methodist, Smoky Mountain hillbilly. Observational research on active galaxies & galaxy evolution.

Joined November 2014
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This looks good. I'm putting it on my list.
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@OddPittsburgh16h
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John Attridge@John_AttridgeOct 23
Great opening but I'm going to push back on "the clocks were striking thirteen." Many readers will find this confusing. Do you want me to add a clarification like "because it was the future"?
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Removing AI from your feed with 4 of my illuminations
Aleksandr Groznov@AleksandrG78133Oct 22
Removing AI from your feed with 4 of my illustrations 🚫
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We’re buying a new one for the campus. So now’s the time to rename it properly.
Wylfċen
@wylfcen23h
STOP saying “planetarium.” That’s from Latin. The native English word is “tunglehall.”
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Terrible Maps
@TerribleMapsOct 23
Number of US states per US state
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Hello afternoon.
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Corey S. Powell@coreyspowellOct 23
The Rubin Observatory in Chile is an accidental art machine. It's gearing up to produce a 10-year, high-def movie of the whole universe. But along the way, it's returning beautiful shots like this one of the Seagull Nebula in the constellation Monoceros. rubinobservatory.org/news/ru…
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Corey S. Powell@coreyspowellOct 22
A major event just passed without notice: the 180th anniversary of the discovery of dark matter. You hadn't heard that we discovered dark matter 180 years ago? Well, have I got a story to share with you. My latest Invisible Universe column, here: invisibleuniverse.substack.c…
This image shows the location of Cloud-9, which is 14 million light-years from Earth. The diffuse magenta is radio data from the ground-based Very Large Array (VLA) showing the presence of the cloud. The dashed circle marks the peak of radio emission,which is where researchers focused their search for stars. Follow-up observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys found no stars within the cloud. The few objects that appear within its boundaries are background galaxies. Before the Hubble observations, scientists could argue that Cloud-9 is a faint dwarf galaxy whose stars could not be seen with ground-based telescopes due to the lack of sensitivity. Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys shows that, in reality, the failed galaxy contains no stars.

ALT This image shows the location of Cloud-9, which is 14 million light-years from Earth. The diffuse magenta is radio data from the ground-based Very Large Array (VLA) showing the presence of the cloud. The dashed circle marks the peak of radio emission,which is where researchers focused their search for stars. Follow-up observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys found no stars within the cloud. The few objects that appear within its boundaries are background galaxies. Before the Hubble observations, scientists could argue that Cloud-9 is a faint dwarf galaxy whose stars could not be seen with ground-based telescopes due to the lack of sensitivity. Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys shows that, in reality, the failed galaxy contains no stars.

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unusual_whales
@unusual_whalesOct 22
BREAKING: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, per Axios
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"Good morning, gentlemen, the temperature is 110 degrees." "Holy shit, it's Viper!"
🇺🇸𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿⚓️
@USN_SubmarinerOct 22
Damn. RIP Viper 🫡
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"Good morning, gentlemen, the temperature is 110 degrees..."
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Variety
@VarietyOct 22
Tom Skerritt, who starred in the TV series “Picket Fences” and appeared in movies ranging from “MASH” to “Alien,” “Top Gun,” “A River Runs Through It” and “Ted,” has died of natural causes at 93. variety.com/2026/film/news/t…
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Phil Hoyeck
@PAHoyeckOct 22
If you post about reading banned books but none of the books you read appear on the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books, then you're doing a bad job.
charu
@charureadssOct 21
I read banned books
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"This doohickey can make any food I want?" "Affirmative." "Computer. A succulent Chinese meal." [Red Alert]
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Dang, Viper’s dead.
Dan Roach 🛩️ FRAS 🔭
@dannydenfischOct 22
RIP Viper 😢
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@PAHoyeckOct 22
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Umm…like, the entire the 20th century just called, and…
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
@daniel_dsj2110Oct 20
Francis Fukuyama: "The lack of a strong national musical tradition contributes to the weakness of American national identity."
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I've found a great use for AI in converting my handwritten astronomy notes into PowerPoint slides w/diagrams. The AI generally does a good job making the drawings, although I've had to give it a lot of feedback and make design rules. Saves me hours and hours of time each lesson.
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P.S. @WKCosmo, thanks for mentioning your success in doing this with conversion to LaTeX with TikZ figures. I figured that meant it was worth trying in PowerPoint.
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For Hungary, I'm not sure whether to go with: a) "It's people! Drunkard's soup is people!" or b) * "On the bright side, Hungary has eliminated alcoholism." —"You mean they've cured them, right?" * <stares> —"Right?!?"
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@TerribleMapsOct 20
The hangover cure in each European country
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Phil Hoyeck
@PAHoyeckOct 20
Mobster: What are you, some kinda wise guy? Socrates: Why... yes, kind of.
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