It has recently become possible to numerically simulate large, representative volumes of the Universe. These cosmological (magneto)hydrodynamical simulations solve for the coupled evolution of gas, dark matter, stars, and supermassive black holes interacting via the coupled equations of self-gravity and fluid dynamics, all within the context of an expanding spacetime.
The IllustrisTNG...
The Science Archives, managed by the ESAC Science Data Centre (ESDC), continue to serve as the definitive repositories for ESA mission data, safeguarding scientific knowledge and ensuring global accessibility for the research community.
This year marks a major milestone: the publication of the first operational release of the Integral Science Legacy Archive (ISLA), now established as the...
Image generation is an important step in the modern astronomy data analysis workflow. It provides quick-look diagnostics on raw data or during the data reduction stages, enabling visual identification or classification of sources and features, and the presentation of the data to the larger scientific community. Traditionally, these images are created from stacking three (or more) scaled single...
Twitter spent ten years as the de facto online platform for astronomy networking and outreach. However, semi-recent events have seen it devolve into a politicized and ineffective platform for science communication and networking. The loss of Twitter has shown how fleeting online spaces can be. It begs the question: can we do better, or are astronomers doomed to always have their online homes...
