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Astrotweeps is starting back up! Our first scientist will be tweeting soon, but we are looking for folks who might be interested in taking over for a week! Sign up at this form. docs.google.com/forms/d/1uwmws…

Astrotweeps is starting a new schedule! We are looking for folks who might be interested in taking over for a week. Sign up at this form! docs.google.com/forms/d/1uwmws…

And with this I finally say goodbye and recommend all astronomers reading this to give @astrotweeps a chance and take over this account for a week, because it was a lot of fun.

So right now, I don't have more ambitious requests than obtaining the appropriate data to confirm or reject this scenario. Once that it's solved, I'll let you know ;)

Discovering a supernova would be cool itself, but additionally, 100000 years ago humans were already populating the planet and this star is relatively close to Earth. If this supernova took place, humans could have seen it by naked eye during the day and that thought is awesome.

Before saying goodbye, I would like to address these questions. Honestly, my "fantasy observation" changes depending on the project I am involved and currently, I would like to point the Hubble Space Telescope to the Ursa Major constellation. twitter.com/momdude56/stat…

@aessa89 Just to give some examples, carbon, the base of all organic chemistry, is majorly made inside old Sun-like stars, but also partially inside massive stars. The iron in your blood was partially made inside massive stars as well, and partially when white dwarfs explode

@aessa89 The chemical reactions inside stars are different during their different phases, and together sun-like stars and more massive stars made almost all the chemical elements we know. The importance of stars as chemical factories is such that more than 90% of your body is stardust.

Today is my last day in astrotweeps, but don’t hesitate to follow me (@aessa89) if you’d like to continue hearing about stars, Paranal operations or Chile. For the last day, I want to bring another stellar fun fact, and I decided to recycle this table I showed you the other day.

Enough for today! But tomorrow is my last day, and I’ve not made plans for it yet, so feel free to reply to this tweet and let me know what you'd like to hear about: more telescope stuff? gossips about what I am observing these days? more stellar stuff? more mountains?

@pintsworld @pintofscienceBE And I’m going to take the chance to recommend you to visit Chile and travel around. The pandemic plus the fact that I already travel enough for work have made me a bit lazy, but this country is gorgeous and has beaches, mountains, deserts, volcanos, glaciers, geysers…

@pintsworld @pintofscienceBE When I’m not doing science or talking science in pubs, parks or theatres, I read books, play board games, travel around or chill at home with the best cat ever. I also occasionally dance folkloric Spanish dances (from the north, not flamenco), and I used to play basketball.

Hello there, last night was a bit hectic in the observatory, and I did not get the chance to tweet. Today, I thought that we could start the weekend with a lighter thread answering the million-dollar question, what do scientists do when aren’t sciencing?