Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens

star cluster memes worse than your isochrone fit 📉
we have left this world for a better place.

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Everyone always asks "where" are the open clusters, but never "how" are the open clusters 😤

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take care out there folks, the Milky Way will reduce your Jacobi radius to zero when you least expect it

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Tidal tails? How can it be a tail if it goes in front of *and* behind a cluster?

A very important question answered on today's arXiv.

https://t.co/0nz2jE4kbi

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Crossmatching is so difficult 😭

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Isochrone fitting: 😭

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petition to name HSC 2384 the shy cluster of the southern sky

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It's *still* possible to find new clusters in Gaia data, and there are 749 in the catalogue. My absolute favourite cluster of all time is HSC 2384 - it has been hidden behind one of the most famous open clusters (IC 2602, the "Southern Pleiades") for centuries!

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It's far from the galactic disk and has a great, clean isochrone. It's a little smol compared to most clusters but hey, we're just 2 m tall but open clusters are on average 6x10^17 m wide, so can we even talk?

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Everybody forgets about Coma Ber! 😥

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Get you a star cluster or two to calibrate your variable stars 🥰

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all good things must come to an end someday.

that's why star clusters have tidal tails and gradually get destroyed 😥

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🚨 Danger! 🚨

Is your child (star cluster ✨) texting about TIDAL TAILS?!

TIDAL TAILS are a gateway to Stellar Streams, Moving Groups and TOTAL DISSOLUTION back into the field!!!

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double stars are TROUBLE STARS

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hmm also, why does scipy.optimize.minimize keep saying "ERROR: Failed to converge within max_iterations."

That means it worked, right? My isochrone has been fit?! 🤩

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Is a chi squared value of 2537 (with a p-value of 0.9995) good enough? Higher is better, right?

Asking for a friend.

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@galaxy_map @J_G_FERNANDEZ Also reminds me of one of my favourite memes on this page https://t.co/cCCufOcXKy

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Isochrone fitting: 😭