@farhantasy.bsky.social
Astrophysicist. Postdoc at Space Telescope. Galaxy evolution, cosmic web, and the gaseous universe πβοΈπ π§π© Views my own
War ravaged Portland.
27.09.2025 15:07 β π 4389 π 1218 π¬ 178 π 81Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin β¨ figured out what stars are made of β¨ when she was just 25. ππ§ͺ
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department β at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
It's also amazing to think that JWST has revealed so much new about the first-billion years of our Universe.
Anyway the discussions led to the below Nature Astronomy paper!
The Nature Astronomy link is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Say Cheese. π§ It's time for your official Symposium photo.
In fact, Swiss cheese reminds us of the galaxies, clusters, filaments, and holes that make up our Universe.
#RomanCartography #ExpandOurView #NASARoman
I need this book! Lol π π€£π
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My mind is absolutely blown by these stellar halos nearby NGC 4364!
Left: DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (DR10)
Right: Newly released @vrubinobs.bsky.social imaging!!!
#AstroSci π§ͺπ
The Roman core community surveys and Galactic Plane Survey are going to be absolutely bonkers. You can read more about some of these here: arxiv.org/abs/2505.10574
I'm so privileged to have worked on this mission for 2.5 yrs! #astrosci π§ͺβοΈπ
JWSTβs most ambitious view is now available to everyone π§ͺβοΈπ. The COSMOS-Web survey is now complete, combining JWST and Hubble infrared data. Its spectacular views show us the Universe as never before by @startswithabang.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/startswi...
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#NASARoman will track cosmic changes over time in unprecedented scale and clarity. Discover the dynamic universe with Roman. Credit: NASA, STScI, Caltech/IPAC. π π§ͺ
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Been an exciting week for @galaxyzoo.org - our relaunch with JWST imaging has resulted in highest daily classification rate since March 2020. www.galaxyzoo.org. ππ©βπ¬π
01.05.2025 13:12 β π 22 π 11 π¬ 0 π 1I came up with a somewhat unusual theory β published today β for why JWST is seeing surprisingly bright galaxies in the early Universe: it's due to dark matter. [1/n] π§ͺ
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
Jerry Ostriker has died
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...
Happy to announce our accepted paper on the HI and star formation in simulated and observed galaxies in different cosmic environments is now on ArXiV!
arxiv.org/abs/2504.03585
Alt Text: The class of 2025 NHFP Fellows are shown in a photo montage. Left to right, top to bottom: The Einstein Fellows (whose headshots appear in blue hexagons) are: Shi-Fan Chen, Nicolas Garavito Camargo, Jason Hinkle, Itai Linial, Kenzie Nimmo, Massimo Pascale, Elia Pizzati, Jillian Rastinejad and Aaron Tohuvavohu. The Hubble Fellows (whose headshots appear in red hexagons) are: Aliza Beverage, Anna de Graaff, Karia Dilbert, Emily Griffith, Viraj Karambelkar, Lindsey Kwok, Abigail Lee, Aaron Pearlman, Dominick Rowan, Nicholas Rui, Nadine Soliman, Bingjie Wang. The Sagan Fellows (whose headshots appear in green hexagons) are: Kyle Franson, Caprice Phillips, and Keming Zhang.
The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program recently named 24 new fellows to its 2025 class. The program enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research in any area of NASA astrophysics: bit.ly/4c2ZJpI π π§΅
31.03.2025 14:59 β π 65 π 11 π¬ 0 π 6
star light is supposed to be cool and romantic not to be cross dispersed H is a letter not an element wanna know something? donβt! iβm using iraf to manually measure the line width of that calcium h emission this is a nonsensical statement made by r deranged people look at what spectroscopists have been demanding your respect for after all the red lights we put in their observatories this is real astronomy done by real astronomers if spectroscopy was real how come no one thought of flipper? they have played us for absolute fools
STOP doing SPECTROSCOPY
25.03.2025 03:50 β π 63 π 11 π¬ 3 π 2Gonna use no. 46 π
24.03.2025 03:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy birthday!!
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JUST RELEASED: DESI DR1 & BAO RESULTS FROM DR2π
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Euclid Q1 data release fields
It's #Euclid data release day!
@esa.int and the Euclid Consortium are making 63 degΒ² of Wide Survey data available to the world. Imaging and spectroscopy data, catalogues and masks for 20+ million galaxies, quasars, stars and substellar objects.
#astronomy #science #space
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βand that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.β
This is the oath that I, like every other US federal civil servant, swore. I could make more $ outside the gov. I chose public service. I believe in our mission.
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βI do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; β¦
Leave it! This is Denali National Park in Alaska.
Leave it!
This is Denali National Park in Alaska.
A big ol beautiful fluffy colony of dog vomit slime mold. It looks like a round sponge or maybe scrambled eggs with a perfect yellow tone.
Rise and shine! Itβs time for slimes!
#SlimemoldSunday
There is a global climate catastrophe underway, multiple genocides happening, a housing and unhoused people crisis, a child poverty crisis, people are struggling to afford food and what are moderate Democrats and GOP concerned about?
"Where people pee."
These fascists don't want us to survive.
1. Water bottle
2. Headphones
3. Band aids
4. Ibuprofen
5. A charger
