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Erica Dykes

@ericadoingastro.bsky.social

Ph.D. Candidate - UTSA Physics & Astronomy. Exoplanets and Protoplanetary Disks Are My Thing. she/her. AOTSATX organizer. Website: ericadykes.weebly.com

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If anyone wanted to watch my amazing friend talk about her journey as a science communicator, but missed her part of the stream, you can always catch us after the fact πŸ‘€πŸ‘€πŸ‘€.
youtube.com/@aotsatx

04.09.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hello Bluesky! πŸ‘‹

This is the official account for the Graduate Society of Physics Students (GSPS) at UTSA!

Follow for updates about our program, what students are doing, and outreach/fundraising events!

07.03.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ Let’s go Patrice!!!! πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

07.03.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Patrice Smith Named 2025 DPS-NSBP Speaker

Through a partnership between the AAS's Division for Planetary Sciences and the National Society of Black Physicists, Patrice Smith has been named the 2025 DPS-NBSP Speaker. aas.org/posts/news/2...

05.03.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world [1]. The industrial megaproject is planned to be located just 5 to 11 kilometres from telescopes at Paranal, which would cause irreparable damage to astronomical observations, in particular due to light pollution emitted throughout the project’s operational life. Relocating the complex would save one of Earth's last truly pristine dark skies.

The skies above Paranal are at risk from a proposed industrial megaproject.Β 

This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/
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πŸ“· ESO/P. HorΓ‘lek

10.01.2025 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 244    πŸ” 186    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 28
Elmo on fire meme

Elmo on fire meme

the parker solar probe after performing the closest solar flyby in history:

27.12.2024 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 265    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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NASA’s Webb Finds Planet-Forming Disks Lived Longer in Early Universe - NASA Science NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just solved a conundrum by proving a controversial finding made with the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope more than 20 years ago. In 2003, Hubble provided evidence of ...

to read more about this amazing discovery and what these results mean, check this out!
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

16.12.2024 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

If you’re in San Antonio, TX, come join us for our 50th event! If you’re not in the area, you should still join. We have a livestream available!

03.12.2024 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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As November wraps up I thought I might share the project that started off this month. After all, astronomers and physicists don’t always stare at computers all day. Sometimes we build pumpkin chunkin’ trebuchets.

01.12.2024 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
periodic table of the elements color-coded by origin in the solar system. Learning more at this conference about how much of orange should be turned green

periodic table of the elements color-coded by origin in the solar system. Learning more at this conference about how much of orange should be turned green

Updated periodic table with origin of elements in the Solar System (for boron and lithium at least)

18.11.2024 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 953    πŸ” 298    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 46
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My first paper is now available on ArXiv! If you’re curious about AB Aur or protoplanetary disks, check it out.

arxiv.org/abs/2410.11939

15.11.2024 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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