Observer-gatherer

With participation in @galaxyzoo and other @the_zooniverse projects, and the use of various public astronomical resources I am a citizen scientist co-discoverer of;

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@VRubinObs #lens #LSST

#SubaruTelescope has released a major update to the Hyper Suprime-Cam Legacy Archive (HSCLA), now publicly offering a massive dataset cataloging ~1.5 billion celestial objects, covering about 7,400 square degrees, or 19% of the entire sky. subarutelescope.org/en/news/topics…

In the 2026 ESA/Hubble and ESA/Webb calendar, the month of February features the monster galaxy cluster Abell S1063. This collection of galaxies is surrounded by glowing streaks of light, these warped arcs demonstrating gravitational lensing 🔍 Ready to print .pdf here: ow.ly/rPbA50Y7qCu 📷 @ESA / @esa_webb , @NASA & @csa_asc , H. Atek, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)

Kader, @JustTheLetterU et al. use multi-wavelength observations to show a precessing jet in an active #galaxy is driving a gas outflow. This galactic feedback is removing enough material to affect the star formation rate. #AAS247 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@G_S_Bhogal aka The Gartner Hype Cycle

8. Amara’s Law: We tend to overestimate the short-term impact of new tech, and underestimate the long-term impact, since hype inflates expectations, and thus disappointment, and thus scepticism. It’s possible for AI to be both a bubble and the most transformative tech since fire.

A thread of useful concepts to equip you for 2026:

@VRubinObs Acknowledgement in version 2 of my serendipitous discovery of Oxyster as one of a big list of EELR candidates from Subaru HSC narrowband images Oxyster: A Circumgalactic Low-ionization Oxygen Nebula next to a Starburst Galaxy at z∼1 Pengjun Lu et al arxiv.org/abs/2504.11531

@VRubinObs @VRubinObs Viewer images of the EELR candidates

With participation in @galaxyzoo and other @the_zooniverse projects, and the use of various public astronomical resources I am a citizen scientist co-discoverer of;

@NASA @NASAHubble @LadyAstronomer

@NASA @NASAHubble Not visible in previous Hubble images but known since 2001 from Subaru Telescope images and 2011 from the famous ‘The Galaxy Zoo survey for giant AGN-ionized clouds’. The text in the link is misleading and inaccurate.

Notice anything different about me? 👀 This @NASAHubble picture of the galaxy NGC 4388 reveals something not previously visible in previous images of it—a plume of gas reaching out towards the bottom-right corner of the image. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/3YHBNlG

Is this all it takes to jailbreak Grok?

A new technique has been developed to analyze some of the largest objects in the universe! The technique, called "X-arithmetic," allows us to identify features in galaxy clusters like never before — classifying them by nature, rather than just appearance: s.si.edu/xa

Our #HubbleTopImage features a trick of perspective! This pair of overlapping galaxies is called NGC 3314. They appear to be in the midst of a collision 💥 but they are actually tens of millions of light-years apart. 1/2

🎉 A groundbreaking new instrument on the #SubaruTelescope is opening a sharper window into the Universe!! This first-of-its-kind photonic lantern allows astronomers to explore deeper into space than ever before with a single telescope. subarutelescope.org/en/news/topics…

@InternetH0F x.com/AFJonkeren/sta…

How did he manage to get his hands on 3 mandela effects 😭 protect this guy at all costs

@SubaruTel_Eng @coias_t09 Seems like there isn’t an english version available?

#COIAS @coias_t09 is a web application that enables you to search for asteroids and other undiscovered celestial bodies. Why don't you discover an asteroid in vast cosmic images captured by the #SubaruTelescope? web-coias.u-aizu.ac.jp

Would like to see something like negative stocks, that react ‘opposite’ of an accompanying regular stock price. Perhaps layered stocks could be possible, buy stock A and can only buy stock B with stock A.

@NASAWebb @NASAJPL Why not name the discoverer Dan Caselden @dancaselden instead of using ‘a citizen scientist’?

A happy accident 🌌 Webb's view of a brown dwarf, named "The Accident," discovered in 2020 by a citizen scientist participating in @NASAJPL's now-retired NEOWISE program, could solve a cosmic mystery! go.nasa.gov/45Unoau

Me vs Hubble, the target is Hanny’s Voorwerp. It’s a quasar ionization echo from the black hole at the center of this galaxy