@KellyLepo@scicomm.xyz
Astronomer | Science communicator | Adult Lisa Simpson
Education and Outreach Scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute supporting JWST
Personal account — Views are my own
Formerly @kellylepo, see my old posts at https://astrodon.social/@kellylepo
Need more galaxies in your feed? Of course you do.
Over the break I made @ArpBot, mostly because I thought the name "Arp Bot" was funny.
It posts an image of a galaxy in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies twice a day. Images are from the archives of professional observatories and the original 1966 catalog. I curated the images and wrote the image descriptions and most of the alt text.
Give it a follow!
A very hungry planet! 
That little dot is WISPIT 2b, a newborn exoplanet. About 5 times the mass of Jupiter, the planet is eating its way through its dusty cradle as it orbits the host star, a younger version of our Sun 
Taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in , this image is the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/
ESO/R. F. van Capelleveen et al.
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