Pratik Gandhi

p.s. shout out to everyone on our #AAS243 meeting team:
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13.01.2024 00:32 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

No worries at all! Good luck to your student 🙂

09.01.2024 01:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'll be at #AAS243 this week! I'm speaking on Monday at 2pm in Session 157 on our new *spectacular star* discovered in SDSS-V @milkywaymapper.bsky.social 🌟💥

07.01.2024 15:08 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

The Astrobites booth in the AAS 243 exhibit hall

#AAS243 we have a booth in the exhibit hall! Stop by for goodies like stickers and pins, and during the morning poster sessions this week we’ll have “meet the authors” where you can come by any ask us any questions! 📝✨

07.01.2024 21:04 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

I'll be at #AAS243, giving my dissertation talk on Thursday the 11th from 10-11:30am! Come by to learn about Local Group low-mass galaxies and how their fossil record sheds light on the high-z universe, complementing direct JWST observations -- session 416, room 210! ✨

05.01.2024 15:27 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

The shadow through the leaves is making a million pinhole cameras. #solareclipse2023

14.10.2023 16:47 — 👍 547    🔁 83    💬 8    📌 3

A black and white JWST image of the pillars of creation. At the bottom left of this vertical image are the thickest regions of gas and dust. There are many layers of semi-transparent gas and dust overlaying one another. A peak rises about a third of the way from the bottom, and becomes far darker toward the tip. The dust becomes more diaphanous about halfway up the screen. There’s a slight gap in the dust, which allows the background to come into view clearly. About 60% of the background in this image is littered with tiny stars. Most of the stars in this image have black points in their center. The pillars continue, taking the shape of a shoulder at the base, with three prominent columns rising out toward the upper right. The top left pillar is the largest and widest. The peaks of the second and third pillars are set off in darker shades.

JWST can produce beautiful images, but it's not quite a point-and-shoot camera.

For example, the stars in the Pillars of Creation don't actually have black centers, it's an artifact introduced by the NIRCam detector.

🧵 on JWST image artifacts. 🔭🧪
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Learn more: webbtelescope.org/contents/art...

02.10.2023 14:54 — 👍 35    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1

"Please explain this gap in your resume"

Oh I'm sorry Mr. LaTeX formatting genius

29.09.2023 18:12 — 👍 86    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 3

Girls do think about the Romans. The Romans(pace Telescope).

22.09.2023 04:32 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

So, it’s looking like COVID is really ripping through communities, finally felling people who’ve avoided it so far. As a member of team “I am totally screwed if I get COVID again”, here is some stuff you might want to consider layering on until more boosters are distributed and surges slow.

21.09.2023 02:09 — 👍 57    🔁 28    💬 2    📌 1