ALMA has captured extremely detailed radio images of the turbulent atmosphere of a dying star 📡 🌟
It observed tens of molecular spectral lines, each one revealing a different atmospheric layer.
Read more: www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-rel...
Misread that as LOTR, and it gave me joy.
When circulating a new paper to collaborators around the holidays is it better to do it:
- before the holidays?
- after the holidays?
- not at all
Thoughts? 🤔
I made my son a Hubble Space Telescope, and he seems to like it 😊
One of the authors here 👋
Happy to answer question!
Travel to a dying star!
Known as WOH G64, this object is roughly 2000 times bigger than our Sun and lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, 160 000 light-years from us. It is in the last stages before it becomes a supernova 😯
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2417/ 🔭
Pretty good for under a hundred bucks!
Root Down Brewery in Phoenixville, PA. It’s a bit of a hike from Baltimore, but it’s a cool space.
My wife and I won the “Adult Science Fair” at our locally brewery.
How far down my CV should I add this victory?
I’m thinking directly below my name.
The core portion of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully completed vibration testing, ensuring it will withstand the extreme shaking experienced during launch: go.nasa.gov/4jNWjcK 🔭 🧪
💰💰
You two were the only reason I was able to continue teaching that Astro101 class in 2023.
Thank you both ❤️
This is my go-to figure for AGB talks.
Oh my god, it’s:
“the straight and narrow path”
and not
“the straightened arrow path”
How am I just learning this?
My wife made this for one of my papers on supernova progenitors.
Core collapse or type 1a?
I'm so excited I'll be starting as a Hubble + Miller fellow at Berkeley this Fall!
I've never lived in an area with a large population of Asian-Americans so it's always been my dream to move to California. Can't believe it's actually happening this year 😱
science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
Yeah @stevegoldman.bsky.social!
Some people aren’t immediately astonished by images like this, and that fact hurts me inside.
I’d like to chat with other professional astronomers. I am an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Yes
New paper✨
Some of the dustiest evolved stars might not lose as much mass or produce as much dust as we thought.
It’s looking like they might have equatorially enhanced dust envelopes 🍩 possibly shaped by binary companions💫.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.027...
@anywaythewind.bsky.social
#astronomy #stars
My favorite citation was when a group cited my dusty wind speed measurements when discussing the weather patterns in the Helmand Basin, Iran.
We measured the wind speeds around red giant stars.
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021JESS...
The more I study dust, the more I start to agree with Daniel Craig.
My wife and I need to settle an argument.
True or false: Pasta is noodles
Its maser emission is bonkers so we always figured it was a weirdo.
@hankgreen.bsky.social 99PI socks?
Has anyone else pointed out the fact that the place where they were secretly testing the new stealth bomber was at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center . . . and there’s a not so hidden stealth bomber in THE LOGO!
They considered nuclear power, but were partly worried about the stray heat and radiation.
One of the two original designs for the James Webb Space Telescope was for it to be a MOON-BASED!
The instruments would be underground, to protect against radiation and meteorites, and the rails in the image were for the hanger-like shield.
