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to baltimore
you were no detour, no pitstop on the way to better things jazz, bands in wyman, exchanged near where the herons lurk where the water sparkled like gemstones cast down past the bridge no, not that one, the other one, with the graffiti of the, you know the one stumps remembered as reading spots, pedestals…
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the road goes ever on and on
I defended my PhD thesis this past month
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back to basics
i consider my physics education incomplete, i suppose any honest physicist would…
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what does an exoplanet look like?
Large telescopes have allowed us to take unresolved pictures of exoplanets around a few dozen nearby stars, in many different colors of light. What do they look like?
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the first week of august, remembering july, looking towards september
all work and no play makes summer a bummer
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we used the billion dollar observatory wrong, on purpose
this march, i published my fifth first-author research paper in The Astronomical Journal (not my first fifth-author paper, which i think is yet to come). i was required by my collaborators to use a title prefix to indicate this paper is part of a series published by our team, so in a small act of…
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into the biosphere
Well, really, it’s the Biosphere 2.
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nircam coronagraphs
I was invited out to arizona this past weekend to attend the ultimate (read, last planned) NIRCam Team Meeting. NIRCam is the Near Infrared Camera, an instrument aboard JWST that is responsible for many of the awe inspiring images you’ve seen from the observatory. There, I got to see a physical copy of the sapphire…
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a sword and sorcery story out now
check out my flash fiction piece “against the witch-prince of emdal” in issue 3 of New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine
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expect the expected | my latest first author paper on af lep b
in my latest paper (published on the pre-print site arXiv today, and by the Astronomical Journal in a few weeks), i took a closer look at a nearby, young, gas giant exoplanet.
