Starmus: The Event Horizon (Day 1)

The Starmus Festival, created by Garik Israelian, is an international celebration of science, astronomy, music, art, and culture. Over the past year (until a couple of months ago) I had the honor of managing social media for Starmus, and as a result was an invited guest to this year’s festival. Here’s a collection of my tweets from Day 1 (unfortunately, the pretty Storified version is RIP with Storify):

The pale blue dot meets the global selfie. Longing to grasp the meaning of our existence @carolynporco #starmus

The ocean acts as a liquid thermometer for climate change – Chris Rapley #starmus #climatechange

Our dark dark universe by @cosmicpinot #starmus #starmus2016

Great visual – triangle has different shapes based on curvature of universe @cosmicpinot @StarmusFestival #Starmus

Kepler’s Six-Cornered Snowflake: @ProfBrianCox & @neiltyson on the communication of science at @StarmusFestival!

With @deicherstar, Editor-in-Chief of @AstronomyMag, member of @StarmusFestival board, author of #TheNewCosmos!

Sooo this just happened at @StarmusFestival (fangirl freakout!) With @ProfBrianCox

“Here’s the cool animation. For the hardcore, here’s the DATA!” – Dr Adam Riess #starmus

There is a pattern to the red shifts of the galaxies around us that would only happen if the universe were expanding. Dr Riess #starmus

First up, Recalibrating the Universe for Precision Cosmology by Dr. Adam Rises #starmus

Registered & ready to science the heck out of this week! #starmus #MAETy1

Phew- intense trip followed by a long uphill climb w/luggage in hot weather, but we made it & are ready 4 #starmus!

Note: You can also check out the videos I took during #Starmus2016, which are in this playlist: