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Dr. Saavik Ford on Twitter: "Funny anniversary story: LIGO found GW170817 4 years ago yesterday... and I found out about it 4 years ago today. Of course, most folks in the astro community found out something was up with the infamous HST tweet, that it was observing UGC 2885... 🧵"

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CUNY Astro prof, AMNH research assoc, runner, astronomer, crafter, camper, gardener, mom, all opinions completely my own (she/her)

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Funny anniversary story: LIGO found GW170817 4 years ago yesterday... and I found out about it 4 years ago today. Of course, most folks in the astro community found out something was up with the infamous HST tweet, that it was observing UGC 2885...

Me too! But the first thing I did when hearing about it was to Google UGC 2885. Google helpfully informed me that people who searched UGC 2885 *also* searched a list of 20-ish other galaxy names...