Star Cluster Memes For Stellar Overdensity Teens

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A two-panel meme. The first panel depicts "Us" reaching out to grab "Using conserved actions to determine past orbits". The second panel depicts "Us" being held back by "GMCs, spiral arms, etc."
A photo of the webda page for trumpler 10. An advert is on the side labelled "HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA" with a picture of a blue star
A picture of a label for an artwork entitled "when flowers bloom, there is no dust" (plus some Chinese characters). It's described as "Dust symbolizes ego, attachment, and mental clutter. When awareness blossoms, the mind becomes clear." There is a large "SOLD" label.
A meme of a skeleton lifting captioned "my clustering algorithm is a machine that turns (picture of data) into (picture of data with clusters)"
A meme of two people's arms shaking each other in agreement. One person is labelled "catalogs of open clusters". The other is labelled "maps of OB stars". They are agreeing on "doomed to be incomplete because of dust".
A meme depicting people having fun at a party. Someone labelled "Coma Ber" is standing in the corner, with the caption "nobody remembers that I'm the second nearest open cluster to the Sun".
screenshot of age assurance popup on bluesky
A grainy picture of the ism, captioned "BAN H2 SELF SHIELDING: Make the ISM SUFFER"
A captioned picture of the dark cloud Barnard 68, that reads: "YO DARK CLOUD IS SO BIG that it has a free-fall collapse time of just 100,000 years"
A meme depicting two swear jars. The first swear jar, which is almost empty, is labelled "swear jar". The second, full swear jar, is called "Forgetting to add i+=1 to my while loops and wondering why they never end jar"
A blank image.
A meme about struggling to choose between liking or hating the ISM
A three panel meme. Two men in cars are looking across from each other in the first two panels, with one labelled 'The cluster' and the other 'The poor runaway star ejected from it'. In the third panel, the two cars can be seen diverging from one another at an intersection.
"I want to see the baby" scene screenshot from mando
Three pictures of a sad-looking Pablo Escobar captioned with "someone said we're never going to find all the open clusters"
A meme showing two Gustavos (the Breaking Bad character), smiling in the first panel but looking distressed in the second. The first panel is captioned "Thank you for your talk...", and the second "... but have you considered magnetic fields?"
Two doors, one labelled "therapy" and the other "doomscrolling starcluster.meme". The therapy one is empty, the other is not...
Text on top of a picture of a dust cloud in space. It reads: "Interstellar Medium? More like Interstellar TEDIUM! I don't care about your A V or your R V JUST SHOW ME THE STARS"
A meme of a beast (labelled Gaia DR4) coming after sheep in a medieval-horror scene. The sheep are labelled "all the open clusters that our galaxy keeps for itself". They are protected by a sheepdog labelled "dust".
A meme depicting two people texting. The first writes "What happens if you don't assume solar metallicity?" While the second is captioned "*blocks phone number*"
A meme of a disturbed-looking doll, captioned "Me looking at the results of my isochrone fitting code"
A meme comparing a crappy car to a star cluster (obviously not crappy.) The meme concludes by soliciting DMs from any meme-viewers who want to know my favourite star clusters.
A meme showing a man and a woman talking through a car window. The man begins with a remark: "Yeah, I know the NGC catalogue" to which she replies "Okay, then name one entry." he replies "NGC 1?" and she says "That's on me, I set the bar too low."
A meme showing a skeleton lifting weights. The caption reads: emcee is a machine that turns CPU time into corner plots.
A meme that depicts a small cat crying over an Xbox controller. The meme is captioned "when you log on to the server to check the simulation results but your code crashed in the night"
A meme depicting people on a roller coaster. The people, labelled "some 'new' star clusters you just found", are terrified of another roller coaster capsule going by them, which contains the undead and is labelled "papers from the 1990s you forgot to crossmatch against".
A meme of an orangutan on a bike chasing a child. The orangutan is labelled "Janskys". The child is labelled "new grad students in astronomy"
A meme. The upper panel shows two people kissing, labelled as "Mayan religion 2 millennia ago" and " the Pleiades." The lower panel shows someone in the distance looking left out, labelled as "the Hyades".
A scene from a Spiderman film. He's asked "Tell me the truth... I'm ready to hear it", and replies "Most stars don't have solar metallicity." She cries.
The meme template with two astronauts in space, one of whom is holding a gun. The earth is labelled "parallax = -0.5 mas". An astronaut is captioned with "Wait, this star is behind me?" And the one holding a gun has the caption "Always has been"
The same hierarchy meme, but now a "2025 special edition" with the following new lower needs: actual long-term career prospects, a job with a living wage, and not having to live through *points around at everything*
A meme based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, but for star clusters. The basic levels are: photometric and astrometric data, cluster catalogues, cluster parameters, spectra/abundances, and hydro/n-body simulations
A maslov's hierarchy of needs pyramid, from top to bottom: spinny data taking top hat (in space!!!) (R.I.P.), new clusters, cluster isochrone fits that don't suck, Fe/h and shit (feels like real science now), and pretty cluster pics for talks (I need to convince my mom that my work isn't boring)
A meme, showing two people doing a sort of warrior-like handshake/embrace thing I can't remember the name of. One person is labelled "astronomers", the other is labelled "cloud security teams." Where their hands embrace (the 'common goal') is labelled "Trying to find all the open clusters".
A meme showing a person fading away, captioned "Low-mass clusters after feedback."
A meme. A large book on the left is labelled "Reasons why Blanco 1 is the best open cluster." A small book on the right is labelled "Reasons why literally any other cluster could be the best."
A meme of omega cen depicted as a giant omnipresent being, looking down upon two tiny beings - "the other globulars" and "open clusters"
A meme titled "Think you have it hard? Imagine being 2MASS-GC01 WHEN WILL THIS CLASSIFICATION MADNESS END???"
A meme. A dog, labelled "my supervisor", is looking curiously at another dog labelled "me". The me dog looks uncomfortable, and has an orange balanced on his head. The orange is captioned "yet another awful, difficult task"
A Barbie movie meme. Barbie is driving a car happily, while labelled "Globular cluster tidal tails, enjoying the outer galaxy." Suddenly, Ken pops up in the back seat of the car. Ken is "dark matter haloes." Both Barbie and Ken look extremely distressed.
A scene from a Marvel movie. An evil character labelled "High-Mass open clusters" is labelled saying "You can't defeat me!". But another character - Spiral Arm Potential - says "I know, but he can." The bottom panel shows a massive being known as Giant Molecular Clouds smashing in to the scene, presumably to defeat High mass open clusters.
A photo of a distressed cat looking at an emoji brain, with the caption "WHY CAN IT NEVER REMEMBER THE MAGNITUDE EQUATIONS?"
A very chaotic meme with many speech bubbles around a person with the caption "I just need to find all the open clusters"
A meme. The top row reads "NGC 2264 from January to November" and includes a picture of a sad-looking Timothee Chalamet. The bottom row reads "NGC 2264 during Christmas" and includes a picture of Timothee Chalamet wearing a high fashion outfit on the Met Gala red carpet, flanked by paparazzi.
A meme of a dog standing precariously on four beer cans. The dog is labelled with a statement: "Open clusters look as cool as other objects in astronomy." However, the dog's feet are placed precariously on beer cans labelled "the Pleiades", "the Trapezium cluster", "Yet another picture of the Pleiades", and "that one in the Orion nebula... oh shit that's just the Trapezium cluster again."
A meme with the caption "Whenever someone asks me to define what an open cluster actually is." Below are three pictures of the actor Pedro Pascal in the show The Last Of Us. He looks like he is in great pain in all three of the pictures.
A meme about working on cluster catalogues. The first panel is a picture of the pope titled 'Me before I started working on a cluster catalogue.' he looks happy and like his life is put together. The right panel, captioned 'Two years later after publishing', shows a bedraggled, dirty, hopeless-looking religious leader character from Game of Thrones.
A meme showing two wrestlers. The wrestler in the front is smiling, and is captioned "open clusters." The wrestler at the back looks ominous and is captioned "the gravitational potential of the Milky Way."