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Thomas Moore

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UK and Irish Astronomer | Postdoc at STScI | Tennis Player | Hunting supernovae with ATLAS & JWST | Bayesian fits & SN obs Rebuilding a social presence in a post-twitter world. www.astronomoore.com

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🚀Kicking off #AAS247 in style!

@SpaceTelescope hosted a workshop on the #NASARoman #Nexus—a powerful cloud-based platform for exploring its petabyte-scale data. Attendees dove into new workflows, cutting-edge data analysis, and real-time collaboration.

How will you use Nexus?

04.01.2026 23:07 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Nice work! Always glad to see SN2022jli getting the attention it deserves!

02.12.2025 21:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.

Congratulations to Professor Michele Dougherty FRS, who has become the first woman appointed as Astronomer Royal in the post's 350-year history.
#WomenInSTEM

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

30.07.2025 08:31 — 👍 86    🔁 18    💬 5    📌 1

Congratulations! First of many from Teide!

18.07.2025 20:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Supernova eyeballing == macrodata refinement

02.04.2025 19:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A cartoon with a stick figure pointing at a whiteboard with an image of the night sky. A small patch on that image is amplified several times until one can read the name of a star and its distance. A text at the bottom reads: “Cosmology news: new telescopes are finally powerful enough to read the little labels next to stars showing how far away they are.”

A cartoon with a stick figure pointing at a whiteboard with an image of the night sky. A small patch on that image is amplified several times until one can read the name of a star and its distance. A text at the bottom reads: “Cosmology news: new telescopes are finally powerful enough to read the little labels next to stars showing how far away they are.”

To clarify: this is only possible thanks to adaptive optics, which corrects atmospheric turbulence and allows us to read those tiny labels 🔭.

xkcd.com/3066/

21.03.2025 17:06 — 👍 313    🔁 63    💬 11    📌 2

We are so back!

18.03.2025 10:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
SN 2023zaw: The Low-energy Explosion of an Ultrastripped Star - IOPscienceSearchopens in new tab SN 2023zaw: The Low-energy Explosion of an Ultrastripped Star, Moore, T., Gillanders, J. H., Nicholl, M., Huber, M. E., Smartt, S. J., Srivastav, S., Stevance, H. F., Chen, T.-W., Chambers, K. C., And...

I am pleased to see my first author work on SN2023zaw published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. The open access article is available here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

02.03.2025 06:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Do you wake up wondering what Trump will do next? | Fiona Katauskas You’ve just got to take it one day at a time

Do you wake up wondering what Trump will do next? | Fiona Katauskas

21.02.2025 14:45 — 👍 218    🔁 43    💬 49    📌 10
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Archive Request xkcd.com/3052

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SN 2023zaw: the low-energy explosion of an ultra-stripped star. (replaced) T. Moore et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13596

23.01.2025 04:19 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Obligatory XC ski stop off

26.01.2025 02:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Some nice work from those involved…

15.01.2025 18:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Enjoying Washington (during breaks in thesis writing and job apps)

13.01.2025 19:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I wish I was as successful at research as ResearchGate thinks I am.

31.12.2024 18:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0