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Solar astrophysics PhD candidate ☀️ NASA FINESST ✨ FURST instrument scientist 🚀 drives the IRIS satellite sometimes 🛰️ Montana State University 🏔️
WOOHOO!!
12.06.2025 01:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Enjoying all the daylight here in Alaska for #AAS246! ☀️ I’ll be giving my first SPD talk on Wednesday! I also came prepared with a PUNCH lanyard and fun pins! 🚀🛰️ #heliophysics
08.06.2025 21:05 — 👍 30 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
A half-ton sounding rocket payload after landing in the desert down range at White Sands Missile Range. Attached is a bright orange-red and white parachute.
It’s easy to say “yes” to the dress when it’s made from the space-flown parachute that carried my experiment safely back to Earth! 🚀☀️
Designers found, docs signed, payment sent — I’m officially getting my dream wedding gown made from material that’s been to space!!! 🪂👰🏼♀️✨
Go PUNCH!! 🥊☀️
12.03.2025 03:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A scientist holding a poster that reads “Science Saves Lives, Denial gets you fried!” with an image of the Sun hitting the Earth with a CME.
poster that reads “Science Saves Lives, Denial gets you fried!” with an image of the Sun hitting the Earth with a CME.
poster that reads “Science Saves Lives, Denial gets you fried!” with an image of the Sun hitting the Earth with a CME.
Poster that reads “mad scientist” with an arrow pointing down.
#StandUpforScience #heliophysics #sunscience #spacescience #spaceweather
07.03.2025 22:23 — 👍 37 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0Caught some awesome solar limb activity with the IRIS satellite! 🤩☀️🛰️ (AR13998) #heliophysics #sunscience #LMSAL
02.03.2025 19:28 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Happened to point IRIS at active region 13993 on my sister's birthday (born in '93) and caught some fun eruptions!
@roytsmart.bsky.social and I worked on a custom color map of her fav colors and turned it into a bday card!
#heliophysics #sunscience
Plot of predicted positions of the Sun and Moon as viewed by the IRIS satellite with emojis of the Sun and Moon laid over top of their positions.
The Moon is sneaking into IRIS’s solar observations this Friday! 🌑🛰️
I’m directing the Sun-observing IRIS satellite this week, and we’re aiming to catch a grazing event as the Moon briefly photobombs our view of the Sun. ☀️📸👀 #sunscience #heliophysics #lunarphotobomb
That tie is perfect! 🚀
19.02.2025 03:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Valentine’s Day! ☀️💥❤️
15.02.2025 00:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A heart-shaped coronal mass ejection from the Sun, with the text “Happy Valentine’s Day, Sol-mate!”
Happy Valentine’s Day, Sol-mate! ☀️☺️
This heart-shaped CME was captured last year, but it’s too cute to not share again! #valentinesday #heliophysics #sunscience #NASAValentines
vacuum ultraviolet — it can only travel freely in a vacuum! Approximately the 10-200 nm range.
29.01.2025 19:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0⛷️ pizza and french fry
🚴🏼♀️ HTFU… or just walk this section
🚣🏼♀️ rig to flip
🎾 serve (and get salty about pickleball)
🏜️ sleep under the stars with lizards
🎨 blame the digitizer on my ipad
☢️ collect spicy things
🏳️🌈 support LGBTQ+ friends and STEMs
🐶 cuddle with my pup, Tycho
Person leaning against a sounding rocket payload that is bolted vertically to a spin balance table.
Howdy, 🦋! I’m Cappy—an art major turned physicist working on my PhD! I study solar and stellar atmospheres in VUV using data from space-based telescopes, and I build solar telescopes that launch on sounding rockets. 🚀☀️ #instrumentation #sunscience #heliophysics
When I’m not sungazing, I like to…
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19.01.2025 05:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I study solar astrophysics and work on space-based instruments.
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16.01.2025 05:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Haha it's all good! Thanks for the help!
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15.01.2025 20:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Same! My friend worked on an instrument that’s on Blue Ghost! Wild 🚀🌕
15.01.2025 07:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Apologies for my ignorance, I’m part of this team, could you clarify the different meanings of ‘FURST’ and ‘sounding’? Ty for your patience.
15.11.2024 19:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My Grandpa Wiley and I both pointing out dents in our rockets. 🚀 …and both holding the hard hat that Grandma Margaret painted for him!
#nasa #msfc #wsmr #sunscience
The launch of FURST! This is the suborbital sounding rocket I’ve been working on for the past 5 years. It’s meant to observe the VUV spectrum of the Sun as a star! 🚀☀️✨
13.11.2024 09:04 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
