Shashank Dholakia

One of my fav episodes to host so far!

Timelapse of the altocumulus undulatus clouds over Brisbane yesterday

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this is a good description

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which have data "up the ramp," which can be used to recover saturated parts of the image, as mentioned by another person on this thread

I processed the data for this image! I think I could have been more specific with this: there was missing data (nans, other termite holes in the image) which we filled in with interpolation. The saturated part in the core we had to deal with by going down to the level 1 data products (1/N)

Check out this incredible image of the nebula forming around a pair of Wolf Rayet (= very massive) stars - taken with #JWST + MIRI at 7, 15 and 25 µm. So gorgeous. 🔭

Just put out an article in @aunz.theconversation.com explaining this beautiful JWST image:

I'll say as the person that processed this image for this paper, hard relate 😆 the raw data is spectacular for the object but making it look clean was a challenge!

Everyone go check out Ryan's paper on one of the coolest star systems in the galaxy (not biased)

Also I was glad to contribute to this work in an artistic and scientific scope by creating this false color composite image!

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First time capturing this in a comic to raise awareness about my chronic illness (severe M.E.) 💗🥹 please read it took a month and I drew it with my fingers on my phone horizontal and bedbound 😭 (1/2)

Today's the day — it's officially T-0!

GET READY: Your full First Look at images from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory is just hours away! We're about to reveal the preview of the greatest cosmic movie ever made 🎬 #RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos 🔭🧪

⌚️ 11am US EDT
🔗: ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

rishabh pant almost falling over during a sweep shot

woke up early to watch something that'll cover the entire sky every three days

new blog post! I talk about the potential risks to science posed by "vibes-based" LLM programming, and how we could mitigate them aditya-sengupta.github.io/vibescience/

Cut trees stacked high.

Running in Druid Hill Park, or as @benjaminpope.bsky.social might call it, the Baltimore solar archive. 🔭

I keep thinking we should have cricket conferences like people have skiing conferences. Talks in morning, lunch, tea and at close of play. Lightning talks at drinks or between innings.

NSF and NASA Budget Requests Pose an Unprecedented Threat to Astronomy The president's budget requests for NASA and the NSF were released last week. This post summarizes the major cuts and the impacts they would have, and provides resources to help fight back against thi...

From Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social : This post summarizes the proposed major cuts to NASA and the NSF and the impacts they would have, and provides resources to help fight back against this wasteful and unnecessary attack on science. 🔭✨☄️
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map of the 22 countries never invaded by Britain

raising an eyebrow at Britain's newfound enthusiasm for sovereign borders

It's M.E. awareness day!

Myalgic encephalomyelitis has one of the lowest quality of life scores of any disease, yet most people have never heard of it.

I've spent the last two years bedridden w very severe M.E. Most of us are bedbound/housebound.

Rt for awareness please 💙

Don’t know why everyone’s so excited, I’ve been a Pope for years

Yeah but do YOU know Bayes theorem?

Fiery red image with filamentary structures all around. Dark spot above center showing a dark umbra and a slightly lighter penumbra. Superimposed photo of the Earth, around the same size perhaps a little smaller than the spot

AR (active region) 4079 on the Sun with Earth superimposed for scale. Trying out my hand at hydrogen-alpha solar #astrophotography

Taken with AT111mm refractor, Daystar Quark chromosphere and ZWO ASI715mc

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Really cool paper about mapping stars using their planets!

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Artist's conception of a planet orbiting a star with catalog name WASP 80, in whose atmosphere astronomers have discovered the presence of the molecule methane. On Earth, much of our methane is produced by the action of living things.

Apr. 9 UC Professor #JonathanFortney will give a free, public, nontechnical talk on latest #JamesWebbTelescope results on #exoplanet atmospheres. #FoothillCollege in Los Altos, CA, 7 pm in Smithwick Theater. If you can't go, it will be on the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures #YouTube channel later.

Just one exo-Earth pixel can reveal continents, oceans, and more Even from a single pixel, multiwavelength data taken over time can reveal clouds, icecaps, oceans, continents, and even signs of life.

Just one exo-Earth pixel can reveal continents, oceans, and more

Want to map out an exoplanet?

You don't need a direct image of many pixels; just one will suffice.

Here's the science behind how to accomplish that.

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#space #astro #science #exoplanets #exolife

I just hosted a new episode on astro[sound]bites!

White-winged fairywren:

These are very local and rare here in SEQ. We heard reports that a particular stretch of road near Oakey had these fairywren, and sure enough after a few hours there we did see some! Caught them just before moulting out of breeding plumage!

#bird #ausbird #australianbird

I've posted most of these as observations on inaturalist with their locations. Most of these were seen in locations around Toowoomba but DM for the details!

White-winged fairywren:

These are very local and rare here in SEQ. We heard reports that a particular stretch of road near Oakey had these fairywren, and sure enough after a few hours there we did see some! Caught them just before moulting out of breeding plumage!

#bird #ausbird #australianbird