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Chris Lintott
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Was thinking long suffering middle manager
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Astronomer, writer and zookeeper. Oxford, Gresham and the Zooniverse. The human half of the Dog Stars podcast. New book: 'Our Accidental Universe' out in March (UK) and June (US)
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Chris Lintott
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Was thinking long suffering middle manager
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Chris Lintott
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Ready for some real tennis at Hampton Court on London #pride day. #uptheunicorn #BiInSci
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Chris Lintott
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Excellent fun discussing aliens with The Infinite Monkey Cage at #Glastonbury yesterday. Somehow the cast look like the management of Somerset’s second largest leisure centre. Cc @lisakatzenberger.bsky.social @robinince.bsky.social 🧪🔭
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Chris Lintott
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Oxford colleagues: In 2020 we voted to abolish the fundamentally inequitable practice of charging £75 just to apply for graduate study. Now, at the last possible moment, this decision could be overturned. Come to congregation tomorrow at 2pm to vote! tinyurl.com/RejectGAF
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Chris Lintott
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You should be able to get the UK edition: ‘our accidental universe’
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Chris Lintott
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Get it wherever you get your books! www.amazon.com/Accidental-A...
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Chris Lintott
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Publication day for ACCIDENTAL ASTRONOMY in North America! Now my friends across the Pond can read about how astronomers stumble into discovering the cosmos. 🔭 🧪
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Chris Lintott
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I meant that promoting the work is something I think would be considered part of a standard academic workload. Whether it’s prioritised or not is another matter, but I think it genuinely is on the list of things universities expect us to do for our salary.
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Chris Lintott
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I can see that logic if you’re writing about your own work (I am paid to promote my academic work, by the university). But that’s not what they are mostly commissioning.
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Chris Lintott
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This is on this evening - thanks to the marvellous Sharmanka Kinectic Theatre in Glasgow.
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Chris Lintott
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A short piece on the aurora, on the @londonreview.bsky.social blog, featuring a snowy trip to Finland. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/ma...
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Chris Lintott
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Their model really irks me. They pitch it like they’re doing us a favour.
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Katie Mack
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Please join me in appreciating this galaxy, which, while technically unremarkable and randomly selected from a database of tens of thousands, is an unimaginably vast and distant structure with its own unique and breathtaking beauty
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Love this one. The X you see in the center is a real feature of some disks. It’s associated with a bar feature, which we’ve seen in some face-on disks on this feed. The bar “buckles” and the orbits rise up and out of the disk on both sides. Edge on, it can make a (sometimes faint) X shape. 🔭
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Brooke Simmons
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Ooh, I think I've seen this one in COSMOS-Web (with JWST) and it is even more stunning!
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Chris Lintott
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Close but no
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‘The tides cause friction which slows the Earth’s rotation, and causes the Moon to recede from us by four centimetres a year: in half a billion years’ time, the Moon’s shadow will touch down on Earth for the last time.’
@chrislintott.bsky.social on the eclipse:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Chris Lintott
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Extraordinary filming venue for Sky at Night today. Anyone know it?
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Chris Lintott
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Another in my new favourite time of photo: ‘Our Accidental Universe’ out in the wild. Happy publication day to me!
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Chris Lintott
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V. Helpful
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Chris Lintott
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Ps large moons can have moons themselves. These are called moonmoons.
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Chris Lintott
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The largest thing in the system is, by convention, the planet. And we don’t know if it’s luck we have such a large Moon or if, by causing tides, stabilising Earth’s spin, or by fending off meteorites, it’s somehow essential for life.
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Chris Lintott
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Slowly catching up with everyone! Hope all is well
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Chris Lintott
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Note fountains of Enceladus too
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Chris Lintott
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First copy of ‘Our Accidental Universe’ out in the wild! Still time for a preorder…
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Chris Lintott
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I wrote a thing, which is mostly for me. It's long, because I don't know how to make it short, and it's about football clubs and the plight of mine. tinyurl.com/torquaytilli...
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Chris Lintott
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I unfortunately don’t remember saying this!
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August (Gus) Muench
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Oh my meteors, thank you @chrislintott.bsky.social! I needed something to replace social media in my life...
www.livemeteors.com
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Chris Lintott
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Surprisingly restful I find! Wait for a shower…
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Chris Lintott
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About to go live for my next @GreshamCollege lecture: come hear about the radio sky: YouTube.com/watch?v=7mWI... 📡 🛰️ 🔭
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Chris Lintott
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All good. My US publishers would like me to be better at mentioning its US incarnation too
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Dr Lucy Rogers MBE
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I commend this book to your attention! I got a sneak preview and it's fab.
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Chris Lintott
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At least one!
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Chris Lintott
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I sent several telescopes…so maybe?
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Chris Lintott
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I’m very pleased with it. Note telescopes looking the wrong way….
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Chris Lintott
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Just did the last bits this week
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Chris Lintott
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It’s called ‘Accidental astronomy’ and is out in June.
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Chris Lintott
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It is astounding to me that sometimes I get to sit and write about the universe, more surprising that I manage to do so, and ever more floored when it becomes a book that turns up in a box. 🧪 📡 🔭
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Chris Lintott
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PPS @vrubinobs.bsky.social are now on Bluesky!
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Chris Lintott
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There are more interstellar objects than galaxies, for example.
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Chris Lintott
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PS The paper has been submitted to the Astronomical Journal. We've put it online now because we can't wait to talk about it. Questions, comments & criticism very welcome.
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Chris Lintott
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To explore what @astrokiwi.bsky.social calls the lovely, lumpy, rich structure they reveal, and what they're telling us about the distant soiar systems they once called home, we have to consider them as citizens of the Milky Way. And this paper is just the start of this process (22/22)
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Chris Lintott
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Interstellar objects - our messengers from deep space - are creatures of the galaxy. They are affected by what happens in the disk of the galaxy, and in many ways studying them is like studying the stars of the stellar disk (21/n)
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Chris Lintott
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This probably sounds like we're deep in the weeds. After all we've only seen two ISOs so far, even if future surveys will find more. Yet there's a profound truth here (even if I do say so myself) (20/n)
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Chris Lintott
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We can tie the predictions of composition to the dynamics of how ISO models are moving - and find ISOs which are water rich are more likely to come from different parts of the sky. More work on this to do as we improve our models of ISO composition (19/n)
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Chris Lintott
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Though the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory will catch part of this area, this is where targeted ISO surveys should look. And there's more! (18/n)
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Chris Lintott
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ISOs are more likely to approach in the direction of the Solar apex (the direction the Sun is travelling in) - it's a similar phenomenon to the fact that you see more meteors after midnight, when you're on the leading side of the Earth, sweeping them up in orbit (17/n)
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Chris Lintott
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We then look at which of these ISOs the Sun is likely to encounter (we don't, yet, take into account the sensitivity of real surveys). Strikingly, we should expect to ISOs from stars of all ages, and from throughout the galactic disk. We're not just looking locally (16/n)
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Chris Lintott
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((To avoid confusion in the paper, we use Matariki, the te reo Māori name for the cluster, and Pleiades for the moving group. If accepted, I think this will be the first time Mātariki has appeared in a peer-reviewed astronomy paper as the name of the cluster 15/n))
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Chris Lintott
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Note that this doesn't mean that 'Oumuamua comes from the Pleiades themselves. The members of this young cluster are part of the moving group that bears their name, but the vast majority of members have nothing to do with the cluster) (14/n)
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