Skynet

Skynet is a global network of robotic telescopes serving professional astronomers, students of all ages, and the public.

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

@mattkenworthy Really, these models are not that difficult, as long as you take an empirical approach to the doubling time; i.e., if we cannot increase the doubling time faster than what we are, they you get... https://t.co/YJrCJM0f2x

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

Yesterday was the longest single-day doubling time yet: 3.9 days. We appear to be past the most dramatic part of the testing ramp-up, which artificially suppresses these measurements. So we have resumed updating our model: https://t.co/IanuWcaHhy

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

https://t.co/YJrCJM0f2x

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

Congratulations to Christi DeZoort for completing Skynet University's "Astronomy with Skynet: Our Place In Space" observing course:
https://t.co/lrlE0jT5TT

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

No solid visual counterpart for this one (which is also pretty far away). But Skynet is ready should one occur closer! https://t.co/T0FJUoir4A

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

This summer, consider taking:

Astronomy 102: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology

for college credit through the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Friday Center for Continuing Education.

Enrollment is now open:

https://t.co/OudEVIVHAf

Cheers!
DR

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

The Orion Complex. This optical — radio combination was achieved by tiling 15 130-minute exposures in H-alpha (from Steven and Tim Christensen), to which we added four 170-minute 1.4-GHz maps that we made with Skynet’s 20-meter at Green Bank Observatory.

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

@SkynetRTN is gearing up to hunt these again. Last run, our PROMPT-5 telescope in Chile was one of six telescopes to co-discover the first optical counterpart to a gravitational-wave event, caused by two merging neutron stars.
https://t.co/zHzds3hANH

[Astronomy on Tap NC @aottriangle]

Dr. Dan Reichart (@SkynetRTN) catalogs some known massive stars to explain how big stars can get before they go BOOM! 🎆💥 #AstroOnTap

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

Skynet's 32-inch PROMPT telescope in the Chilean Andes scored another Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) last month. Enjoy! https://t.co/JPecFopBJk

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

A Lunar Eclipse flat-Earther’s have never seen.

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

@SkynetRTN is on four of the NS-NS merger papers today, including one with 4,500 authors spanning 910 institutions!

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

@SkynetRTN is being represented by David Sand at the National Press Club NS-NS merger announcement this morning.

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

Excited! PROMPT was one of only a few scopes to discover the visible-light counterpart of today's announced NS-NS merger!

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

Here is comes...Monday at 10 AM ET ;) https://t.co/rX8dFeZGtX

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

Just my luck -- the world's now supposed to end just one day before the new Star Trek series comes out...figures. https://t.co/LUs4FSxzGl

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

Totally trolled the MedCrave Group's "Physics and Astronomy International Journal" -- worth the read ;) https://t.co/ma42d3u5au

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

F. Ghigo observed the eclipse in radio waves using Skynet and the 20m scope at GBO. Not fully dark b/c the moon emits radio too!

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

Updated radio map of Orion A & B, Barnard's Loop, and a bunch of faint radio sources, made with Skynet, using GBO's 20-meter.

[Skynet @SkynetRTN]

Skynet is becoming accessible to the blind: https://t.co/ovtLTnBeGu