The Astrochemistry Research Group @ Ole Miss

Using computers to examine molecules (that we hope might have the chance to be somewhere) in space! @chemistry_um | 🖥️ ⚛️ 🌌 🪐

[The Astrochemistry Research Group @ Ole Miss @UMAstroChem]

PAHs really are in space. Quantum chemistry is getting closer to showing that for sure in the IR: https://t.co/YWJqiMRBHm @chrissehring_ @vinceespo12 @JPhysChem @chemistry_um #Jwst #astrochemistry

[Astrobiology @astrobiology]

JWST Detection Of A Carbon Dioxide Dominated Gas Coma Surrounding Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
https://t.co/DcQ2uIPzrl #astrobiology #3IATLAS #interstellar #astrochemistry

[Green Bank Observatory @GreenBankObserv]

#OnThisDay Today marks 25 years since first light with the Green Bank Telescope! 📡

Photos from GBT Dedication:
🗓️ 25 August 2000
👤 Senator Robert C. Byrd (center back) with the Green Bank Telescope construction crew from Comsat/RSI at the Green Bank Telescope dedication

[ALMA Observatory📡 @almaobs]

Did you know you're made of material from stars? ✨
It's true! Many of the atoms in your body formed in other stars. This is one of the most fascinating discoveries science has ever made.

🔗Here are the details: https://t.co/hjGYx6rsXE

[UHMReactionDynamics @UHMRxnDynamics]

Strange tetra-alcohol synthesised in simulated interstellar ice: https://t.co/Fghb9FnFyk

[The Astrochemistry Research Group @ Ole Miss @UMAstroChem]

Today, our REU students Elaina Heath (@okstate) and Megan McKissick (@chemistry_um) did an outstanding job with their presentations! We celebrated with lunch at @SouthDepotTaco before we say goodbye to Elaina. #sciencecommunication

[Midnight Maniac Sri @sridatta]

'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum,

so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". '

(found via HN)

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Yes.

Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.

Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

[NASA History Office @NASAhistory]

One of the most inspiring moments in human history

NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong’s words echoed across the world #OTD in 1969 as he became the first person to set foot on the surface of the Moon. The culmination of years of united effort, the Apollo 11 Moon landing remains a testament to our capacity to do hard things.

[The Astrochemistry Research Group @ Ole Miss @UMAstroChem]

AlH + NH3 can lead to aluminum nitride dust nucleation in warmer denser regions like protoplanetary disks. Work from @czachpalmer618 on the cover of @JPhysChem A! https://t.co/yjcr2xSHwS @chemistry_um #dustinthewind #astrochemistry

[UHMReactionDynamics @UHMRxnDynamics]

https://t.co/6EKvJ8PAHR
@UMAstroChem

[UHMReactionDynamics @UHMRxnDynamics]

https://t.co/GR6TPx9l8k
@UMAstroChem

[Earth_Wanderer @earth_tracker]

A wholesome thread on Simple Ideas can have big Impacts.🧵

1. Great idea 💡

[NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory @VRubinObs]

Yesterday we released our cosmic treasure chest...and now it's yours to explore! With ~10 million galaxies in the image, there's plenty to find.

Pan, zoom, and hunt for gems using Skyviewer - and be sure to share your favorites with us!

➡️ https://t.co/yGz8Ob0b5Q

[Math Lady Hazel 🇦🇷 @mathladyhazel]

When a plug gets caught under a table, just use some knot theory.

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

[The Astrochemistry Research Group @ Ole Miss @UMAstroChem]

@AthenaFlint shows that biphenylene exists in a deep well providing an additional class of PAHs that could form in space. Plus, its spectral features (and benzopentalyne) are predicted: https://t.co/xA7K2J4UDE @chemistry_um #astrochem @PCCP @UMAstroChem

[Math Lady Hazel 🇦🇷 @mathladyhazel]

This calculus joke involving potatoes.😂

[Astrobiology @astrobiology]

ICYMI this is what happens to the @NASA search for exoplanets and habitable worlds in the FY 2026 White House budget request for #NASA. #astrobiology #astronomy #exoplanet