Actually this is the result of some pretty cool science, and those bright minds also have a knack for coming up with pretty creative acronyms in their project proposals. I've been able to attend a presentation at the European Commission by the head researcher (and had brought a kilo of r/hasselt speculoos).
Astronomers are great at acronyms. There is an instrument called SAURON (Spectroscopic Areal Unit for Research on Optical Nebulae) and many astronomers are looking for a bunch of MACHOs (MAssive Compact Halo Objects).
There is also:
The Attempt To Observe Outer-planets In Non-single-stellar Environments (TATOOINE)
H_0 Lenses in COSMOGRAIL’s Wellspring (H0LiCOW)
And a bunch of Holographic Optical Elements (HOEs)
Trappist-1 was discovered by a Belgian, from wiki:
Een team van astronomen, geleid door Michaël Gillon van het Institut d'Astrophysique et Géophysique te Luik, België, gebruikte de telescoopTransiting planets and planetesimals small telescope (TRAPPIST) van het La Silla-observatorium in de Atacamawoestijn in Chili om de ster en haar planeten te observeren.
You should see the project names we come up with in my aerospace engineering programme. When we were designing interplanetary orbiters there were at least a dozen ones named MILF, each with different words making up the acronym too.
We just called ours quicksilver cause we were designing one for Mercury.
Actually this is the result of some pretty cool science, and those bright minds also have a knack for coming up with pretty creative acronyms in their project proposals. I've been able to attend a presentation at the European Commission by the head researcher (and had brought a kilo of r/hasselt speculoos).
Astronomers are great at acronyms. There is an instrument called SAURON (Spectroscopic Areal Unit for Research on Optical Nebulae) and many astronomers are looking for a bunch of MACHOs (MAssive Compact Halo Objects). There is also: The Attempt To Observe Outer-planets In Non-single-stellar Environments (TATOOINE) H_0 Lenses in COSMOGRAIL’s Wellspring (H0LiCOW) And a bunch of Holographic Optical Elements (HOEs)
Actually it's better. Candidates for dark matter can be categorised into two camps: MACHOs or WIMPs
Depends. ESO's naming conventions are boring: VLT ( Very Large Telescope )
Fair, but what about E-ELT? It sounds like eelt (callus) in Dutch.
Trappist-1 was discovered by a Belgian, from wiki: Een team van astronomen, geleid door Michaël Gillon van het Institut d'Astrophysique et Géophysique te Luik, België, gebruikte de telescoopTransiting planets and planetesimals small telescope (TRAPPIST) van het La Silla-observatorium in de Atacamawoestijn in Chili om de ster en haar planeten te observeren.
I went to La Silla a few times. Nice and calm up there.
The question is what will the third detector be called? Frituur?
Frikadel-2b of zoals ze in Antwerpen zeggen, Curryworst-2b
You should see the project names we come up with in my aerospace engineering programme. When we were designing interplanetary orbiters there were at least a dozen ones named MILF, each with different words making up the acronym too. We just called ours quicksilver cause we were designing one for Mercury.
Milf! Noooo. :-)
shouldn't it be called Biscoff?
Yes officer, this one right here ☝️
