Category: astronomy
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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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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.
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astronomy communication in the age of slop
i’ve been wading through the increasingly sloppy internet for most of my adult life. one of the places that i always seem to encounter low effort content is in astronomy “communication”