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i made a star in python with these 4 easy equations (clickbait)
stars are complex, dynamic objects, but we can simulate the interior of a star using some simple equations.
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a simple plot belies tremendous difficulty
there’s an exercise, exercise 3.8, in Stellar Interiors: Physical Principles, Structure, and Evolution (2nd ed) by Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble (HKT) that’s stuck in my brain. let me try to explain.
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open sky, heavy heart
“When I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn’t do. All that I might have been and couldn’t be. All the choices I didn’t make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to…
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i helped capture the first image of an exoplanet taken with JWST!
I helped work on the publication that showcased the first direct images of an exoplanet taken with JWST, and I made some art from our data!
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first time out of the country
in which I travel to “across the pond” for astronomy conferences and enjoy the summer sun
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my first article as a freelancer is out!
my first article as a freelance science journalist has been published at the Planetary Society!