Bob Benjamin🌌 🏳️‍🌈📡

Prof of Physics—All about the Milky Way Find me at @bobbenjamin.bsky.social

[ESA Science @esascience]

🐦 Fly through a 3D map of stellar nurseries ✨

Scientists have created the most accurate 3D map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from #ESAGaia.

The map extends to a distance of 4000 light-years from us, with the Sun at the centre 👉 https://t.co/GAY8x7O0nk

[Bob Benjamin🌌 🏳️‍🌈📡 @bobabenjamin]

Jefferson, Wisconsin

[Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center @uw_wipac]

📅 Can't get enough of the @uw_icecube result announcing neutrinos from the Milky Way? Join Dr. Justin Vandenbroucke for @WedNiteAtTheLab to hear what IceCube has unveiled about our cosmic neighborhood.

Zoom ➡️ https://t.co/1r8RDWRzTq
YouTube ➡️ https://t.co/jMLOyqOvMs

[Laura Danly @Laura_Danly]

If twitter implodes, how will @MarkHamill wish me a happy birthday?? 😧

[Bob Benjamin🌌 🏳️‍🌈📡 @bobabenjamin]

@AnnFinkbeiner @BenneHolwerda @janerrigby @astraughnomer Here’s a book of such letters to Mt Wilson Observatory from 1915 to 1935. “[I feel compelled to write] Because No One May Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again”. https://t.co/EvkmoVRgPf

[Bob Benjamin🌌 🏳️‍🌈📡 @bobabenjamin]

It’s very hard to pick a favorite paper from this compendium.

[dr briley lewis @briles_34]

This week @astrobites covered not one but TWO big exciting announcements — and the second one just came out! @uw_icecube detected neutrinos from the Milky Way and @jessie_thwaites wrote about it 🥳 https://t.co/L6zPOvmVFq

[Bob Benjamin🌌 🏳️‍🌈📡 @bobabenjamin]

Wahoo! The disk of the Milky Way in neutrinos!

[IceCube Neutrino Observatory @uw_icecube]

🔔IceCube results to be published in @ScienceMagazine tomorrow!

For the first time, IceCube found evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from our galaxy ➡️ https://t.co/ErPz4zJyMi

📸: IceCube/NSF (Lily Le & Shawn Johnson)/ESO (S. Brunier)

#OurGalaxyInNeutrinos

[Yerkes Observatory @yerkescosmos]

Are you ready to explore the depths of the universe? 🌌 On July 6th at 6 PM, @astropixie, @DrAmySteele, and @BrittLundgren will come together to unravel the mysteries of the cosmos. They’ll help us discover the secrets behind planet formation, galactic lifetimes, and more! Get your tickets now for this incredible experience!
https://t.co/cwShSKn7fC

[Bob Benjamin🌌 🏳️‍🌈📡 @bobabenjamin]

Wow

[ioana ciucă @errai34]

Our new paper is out: https://t.co/djX81eEJc5. In it, we are chasing a vision rather than refined methods, which we have started working on now as we’re learning more about NLP.

Is it possible to use LLMs to come up with good ideas? What if we criticise their response?

[European Space Agency @esa]

A day in the life working at ESA but make it Wes Anderson ☄️💫

Can you spot the special guest? 👨‍🚀 👀

We are marking #AsteroidDay this year by emphasising the importance of asteroids and how we protect our planet from them.

#AsteroidCityxAsteroidDay #AccidentallyWesAnderson

[Prof Naomi McClure-Griffiths @naomimcgriff]

Biggest, most exciting #PaperDay of my career so far. Our review of atomic hydrogen in the Milky Way is available now:
https://t.co/9NWdEjVR6p

[Bob Benjamin🌌 🏳️‍🌈📡 @bobabenjamin]

@naomimcgriff 🎉🎉🎉

[Manitowoc Minute @ManitowocMinute]

Your move Oscar Mayer 👀 #keepermovin

[ESA Gaia @ESAGaia]

Today marks the first anniversary of #GaiaDR3! Let's celebrate with a highlight of the Gaia Multi-Dimensional #MilkyWay! This image was constructed from 10 Gaia sky maps and highlights the diversity of Gaia info on a large sample of stars in the Milky Way. https://t.co/tQMISIPGpY

[Bob Benjamin🌌 🏳️‍🌈📡 @bobabenjamin]

@cfroning @amannastro Here, here! Nearby Galactic supernova NOW!!

[John Gizis @johngizis]

Going to show this to my fellow faculty today.

[American Astronomical Society (AAS) @AAS_Office]

#PrideMonth Please join the AAS Committee for Sexual-Orientation and Gender Minorities in Astronomy (SGMA) on Wednesday, 14 June, at 4:00 pm ET to discuss the importance of mentorship and community among LGBTQIA+ astronomers. https://t.co/9jhOpdS82a

[Bob Benjamin🌌 🏳️‍🌈📡 @bobabenjamin]

@astronomeara I didn’t have time to read the TAC comments before I woke up, but my suspicion is they were something like “The answer to this is already known… see attached image.”

[Kareem El-Badry @kjb_astro]

New paper! We search for – and find – hypervelocity white dwarfs that were launched at 2000+ km/s when their companion white dwarfs exploded. https://t.co/eswoU8Nl2Q 1/n