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Finally put up my #AAS241 swag: magnetic poetry from the GCN & HEASARC!

✨ Starry surprises in NGC 346
🌌 Early "green pea" galaxies discovered
🥇 First exoplanet confirmed by Webb
📀 New infrared look at dusty disk AU Mic
...and more!

#ICYMI, catch up on Webb updates announced during the recent #AAS241 conference here: https://go.nasa.gov/3ZOcjmj
#JamesWebb

✨ Starry surprises in NGC 346
🌌 Early "green pea" galaxies discovered
🥇 First exoplanet confirmed by Webb
📀 New infrared look at dusty disk AU Mic
...and more!

#ICYMI, catch up on Webb updates announced during the recent #AAS241 conference here: https://go.nasa.gov/3ZOcjmj
#JamesWebb

Six negative covid tests since #AAS241... maybe I was lucky enough to have dodged the bullet? (Thank you for the indoor masking policy AAS Leadership!)

Another one of our #JWST #ERS1328 papers hit the arXiv when I was busy with #AAS241 so apologies for the late post -- this one led by Jeff Rich is about the intriguing nature of the nuclear cores in #VV114, complete with #NIRSpec and #MRS SPECTRA!! You know you want to read this for your #JWSTCycle2 proposal... 😉

From Jeff: "We found an AGN where we didn’t expect to, no AGN where others had predicted one, and interesting ISM properties that require a lot more analyses."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02338

Another one of our #JWST #ERS1328 papers hit the arXiv when I was busy with #AAS241 so apologies for the late post -- this one led by Jeff Rich is about the intriguing nature of the nuclear cores in #VV114, complete with #NIRSpec and #MRS SPECTRA!! You know you want to read this for your #JWSTCycle2 proposal... 😉

From Jeff: "We found an AGN where we didn’t expect to, no AGN where others had predicted one, and interesting ISM properties that require a lot more analyses."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02338

Back from #aas241 and still (as of this morning) negative for COVID. So it’s farewell to the grey skies of #Seattle and hello to the wide blue skies of New Mexic… oh
#NMwx #Socorro

Back from #aas241 and still (as of this morning) negative for COVID. So it’s farewell to the grey skies of #Seattle and hello to the wide blue skies of New Mexic… oh
#NMwx #Socorro

The final daily Astro Vlog for #AAS241 is out! Thanks to everyone for watching this year, it sure was fun uploading videos again!

https://youtu.be/9Hkpz00amHM
#astrodon #astronomy #vlog #academia #academicchatter

The final daily Astro Vlog for #AAS241 is out! Thanks to everyone for watching this year, it sure was fun uploading videos again!

https://youtu.be/9Hkpz00amHM
#astrodon #astronomy #vlog #academia #academicchatter

Goodby Seattle! Had a blast at the "Superbowl of Astronomy" the American Astronomical Society meeting #AAS241.

See everyone at #AAS242 in Albuquerque.

Nice to run into the @[email protected] team at #AAS241 - hi @[email protected]!

Nice to run into the @[email protected] team at #AAS241 - hi @[email protected]!

My photos of #AAS241 at https://planet4589.org/jcm/pics/23/aas/index.html - nice to see @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] among others

My photos of #AAS241 at https://planet4589.org/jcm/pics/23/aas/index.html - nice to see @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] among others

@AlicesAstroInfo hello! I hope you enjoyed #AAS241 as much as I did!

A few highlights of #AAS241 and #ALMA were assembled together in our latest newsletter. https://alma.loadingediciones.cl/dev/news/aas/

Overheard while getting coffee after #AAS241:

"You know that astronomy conference that was in town? I read an article that came out of the conference, saying we found galaxies way further than we thought. I just love thinking about how vast space is!"

Agreed.

There was an announcement at the #AAS241 closing ceremony that, as of 5 PM, only one COVID case had been reported among the attendees. Obviously there's going to be a lot of under-reporting, but ... that's pretty good!

There was an announcement at the #AAS241 closing ceremony that, as of 5 PM, only one COVID case had been reported among the attendees. Obviously there's going to be a lot of under-reporting, but ... that's pretty good!

Astronomers using @NASAHubble have recorded a star’s final moments as it gets gobbled up by a black hole. Stellar shredding like this happens only a few times in every 100,000 years in any given galaxy with a supermassive black hole center: https://go.nasa.gov/3GLBRrA #AAS241
#NASA

Astronomers using @NASAHubble have recorded a star’s final moments as it gets gobbled up by a black hole. Stellar shredding like this happens only a few times in every 100,000 years in any given galaxy with a supermassive black hole center: https://go.nasa.gov/3GLBRrA #AAS241
#NASA

I want to thank the people who pushed to make #AAS241 safer for everyone to attend when the meeting didn’t make mask mandatory at first. The fact that speakers could safely unmask because the rest of the room was masked and well ventilated is a huge step forward. It gives me hope that we can indeed do better as a community. Looking forward to seeing this and daily testing being normalized for future conferences. #PPVII

Back home after a very successful #AAS241 meeting. Web site launch updates to follow over the weekend.

Back home after a very successful #AAS241 meeting. Web site launch updates to follow over the weekend.

What is the influence of source properties in strong gravitational lensing? Should we extend the formalism to higher orders (flexion) for galaxy-cluster lenses? The answers to these question can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243562
#NASA #AAS241 #astronomy #cosmology

NEW on the Astro Vlog: Day 3 of #AAS241!

https://youtu.be/5z4VKNBdSKA
#AstroDon #Astronomy

NEW on the Astro Vlog: Day 3 of #AAS241!

https://youtu.be/5z4VKNBdSKA
#AstroDon #Astronomy

Sixteen years ago, I chatted with Nobel-winning physicist John Mather about this big project called the James Webb Space Telescope. Now #JWST is a reality - though it took longer than Mather expected - and he's talking about improvements that could be incorporated in future space telescopes. https://cosmiclog.com/2023/01/12/webb-pioneer-gives-advice-to-future-telescope-builders/ #Space #NASA #AAS #AAS241

Sixteen years ago, I chatted with Nobel-winning physicist John Mather about this big project called the James Webb Space Telescope. Now #JWST is a reality - though it took longer than Mather expected - and he's talking about improvements that could be incorporated in future space telescopes. https://cosmiclog.com/2023/01/12/webb-pioneer-gives-advice-to-future-telescope-builders/ #Space #NASA #AAS #AAS241

For the final #AAS241 presser we have the papers https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac9f36 (Live to Die Another Day: The Rebrightening of AT 2018fyk as a Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Event) and https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202244805 (Deciphering the extreme X-ray variability of the nuclear transient eRASSt J045650.3−203750) with the releases https://thecollege.syr.edu/news-all/news-2023/a-stars-unexpected-survival/ and https://www.mpe.mpg.de/7920051/news20230112 and https://www.esa.int/Space_in_Member_States/Germany/Schwarze_Loecher_die_immer_wieder_dieselben_Sterne_verschlingen_XMM-Newton_spioniert_sie_aus plus the releases https://cfa.harvard.edu/news/hungry-black-hole-twists-captured-star-donut-shape and https://esahubble.org/images/opo2301a/

For the final #AAS241 presser we have the papers https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac9f36 (Live to Die Another Day: The Rebrightening of AT 2018fyk as a Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Event) and https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202244805 (Deciphering the extreme X-ray variability of the nuclear transient eRASSt J045650.3−203750) with the releases https://thecollege.syr.edu/news-all/news-2023/a-stars-unexpected-survival/ and https://www.mpe.mpg.de/7920051/news20230112 and https://www.esa.int/Space_in_Member_States/Germany/Schwarze_Loecher_die_immer_wieder_dieselben_Sterne_verschlingen_XMM-Newton_spioniert_sie_aus plus the releases https://cfa.harvard.edu/news/hungry-black-hole-twists-captured-star-donut-shape and https://esahubble.org/images/opo2301a/

A radar view of the Apollo 15 landing site at 1.25-meter resolution! The Lunar Module is in there...but still really hard to spot, since it's just 3 pixels wide. https://public.nrao.edu/news/successful-test-new-planetary-radar/ #Moon #radar #AAS241

A radar view of the Apollo 15 landing site at 1.25-meter resolution! The Lunar Module is in there...but still really hard to spot, since it's just 3 pixels wide. https://public.nrao.edu/news/successful-test-new-planetary-radar/ #Moon #radar #AAS241

Just in time for #AAS241, I want to share an opportunity to learn #datascience techniques for #science --

The #LaSerenaSchoolforDataScience is now accepting applications. It will be back in person in #Chile this year and is open to advanced undergraduates and junior graduate students.

http://lssds.aura-astronomy.org/winter_school/

If you're interested in learning more about possible program outcomes, here's the paper that was developed out of my group's project at the 2021 LSSDS: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac912a

Just in time for #AAS241, I want to share an opportunity to learn #datascience techniques for #science --

The #LaSerenaSchoolforDataScience is now accepting applications. It will be back in person in #Chile this year and is open to advanced undergraduates and junior graduate students.

http://lssds.aura-astronomy.org/winter_school/

If you're interested in learning more about possible program outcomes, here's the paper that was developed out of my group's project at the 2021 LSSDS: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac912a

Last talk for #AAS241

Great quote from @dfm on releasing scientific software as Open Source : "Releasing your code in the open, does not mean your are guaranteed to support it. People can still learn from it. But maintaining it can lead to higher impact."

#AAS241 #OpenScience

Great quote from @dfm on releasing scientific software as Open Source : "Releasing your code in the open, does not mean your are guaranteed to support it. People can still learn from it. But maintaining it can lead to higher impact."

#AAS241 #OpenScience

Attended my first science talk at #AAS241, which happened to be my own. Thanks to Grant Tremblay for the photo that makes me look like a plenary speaker. #Astrodon

Attended my first science talk at #AAS241, which happened to be my own. Thanks to Grant Tremblay for the photo that makes me look like a plenary speaker. #Astrodon

I left #AAS241 early this morning and it was great talking with so many people in the past week. But this means I get to watch @dfm plenary on Open Software in Astrophysics from my couch in my slippers (win for virtual events)!

He even has shared his slides: https://speakerdeck.com/dfm/open-software-for-astrophysics-aas241

I got back from #AAS241, walked into the house, and found my spouse was virtually attending talks still. Weird!

News from #AAS241!

Hubble recorded a star's final moments as it was ripped apart and eaten up by a black hole – getting twisted into a donut-like shape in the process.

Find out more: https://go.nasa.gov/3W8wBDY
#Hubble

And here comes the 8th and final #AAS241 press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcatuINTtS0 is about "Signals from Black Holes and Neutron Stars", https://aas.org/meetings/aas241/press-kit#Thu_pm

Had a very #HarryPotter moment trying to find the link rail station which was supposed to be right there according to the map but the building just appeared abandoned and inaccessible to #muggles.

Thanks for a great conference #AAS241! My heart has already gotten ahead of me back to the kiddos.

Some more details on the NSF-SpaceX astronomy coordination agreement, even as another organization goes to court to appeal the FCC’s license for Starlink Gen2. #AAS241 https://spacenews.com/nsf-and-spacex-reach-agreement-to-reduce-starlink-effects-on-astronomy/

Fischer: satellite constellations are an “existential threat” to astronomy without mitigation and cooperation with industry. She cites as an example of such cooperation the recent NSF-SpaceX coordination agreement for Starlink Gen2, a model for others. #AAS241

NSF’s Debra Fischer says NSF has not decided whether to support either or both of the extremely large telescopes (GMT and TMT) recommended by Astro2020. Engaged in a preliminary design review to study potential scope, cost and benefits of funding them. #AAS241

Last day of the #AAS241 conference. Great to hear John Mather talk about the successes of JWST this morning, a nice complement to George Esthafiou's cosmology talk yesterday (also shout out to @[email protected] for her plenary talk on axions etc!)