@Astro_Chad

Astronomy PhD student @Cornell researching Cosmology & Galaxies

 Ithaca, NY
Joined May 2021
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Randall Munroe
@xkcd8 Jan 2024
Supernova xkcd.com/2878
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I keep seeing cosplayers from the fan expo and thinking that I deeply misunderstood the vibe of #AAS243 and came severely underdressed
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HEY CHECK IT OUT!!! what gorgeous art from my DPS talk yesterday!!!!!
James Tuttle Keane@jtuttlekeane2 Oct 2023
Madeline Pettine—@NASAJuno’s polar orbit gives unique views of Io that enable global mapping of infrared volcanic emission. They find that the heat flow doesn’t match tidal heating models particularly well. #TeamIo #DPSEPSC2023
A sketch of a talk from DPS/EPSC 2023 showing the results by a talk from Madeline Pettine. The sketch shows the Juno spacecraft flying past Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io. In the distance is Jupiter. Io is mottled, yellow and orange, with active volcanic plumes over the horizon. To the bottom right is a Mollweid projection of Io showing their derived IR flux map, which doesn’t have any particularly striking pattern. Their paper is currently on ArXiv.

ALT A sketch of a talk from DPS/EPSC 2023 showing the results by a talk from Madeline Pettine. The sketch shows the Juno spacecraft flying past Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io. In the distance is Jupiter. Io is mottled, yellow and orange, with active volcanic plumes over the horizon. To the bottom right is a Mollweid projection of Io showing their derived IR flux map, which doesn’t have any particularly striking pattern. Their paper is currently on ArXiv.

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Altoona Tribune, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1938
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Ethan Siegel@StartsWithABang21 Aug 2023
New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension JWST finally weighs in on the expanding Universe, and confirms previous results from Hubble about Cepheids, with the smallest errors yet. The puzzle over the expanding Universe deepens. bigthink.com/starts-with-a-b…

New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension

How fast is the Universe expanding? Two major methods disagree. New JWST data, just released, strengthens this Hubble tension even further.

bigthink.com
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Expanding the search for advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, @CornellAstro researchers are monitoring wideband pulsating signals from a star-dense region toward the core of our galaxy. reuters.com/science/scientis…

Scientists expand search for signs of intelligent alien life

Scientists have expanded the search for technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations by monitoring a star-dense region toward the core of our galaxy for a type of signal that could be...

reuters.com
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Chad Popik retweeted
Maura@mklally926 May 2023
POV you’re a rascal vs. POV you’re a rascal vs. POV you’re a rascal
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I am so excited to announce I am pursuing my astronomy PhD at @CornellAstro ‼️ I’m returning home to NY after a decade away, and I couldn’t be happier for the reason (warning sentimental content below)
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hello people in my app i'm genuinely excited to say i will continue to study my silly little exoplanets and substellar objects in grad school at THE cornell university. very grateful to the folks at @SESEASU and @NASAJPL - wouldn't be here without the support of good people :-)
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Chad Popik retweeted
Maura@mklally910 Mar 2023
what did my professor mean by this
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A green comet will be closer to our planet today, Feb 2, than it's been in over 50,000 years! The brightness of comets is unpredictable, but with clear skies, you could see Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)! go.nasa.gov/3wQA6Vu
A star-studded night sky with a green comet visible in the bottom left corner. The comet’s tail stretches from the comet in the bottom left across to the top right.

ALT A star-studded night sky with a green comet visible in the bottom left corner. The comet’s tail stretches from the comet in the bottom left across to the top right.

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hm must have missed this meeting
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what they don’t tell you about grad school is that they make you get matching haircuts with your cohort
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god tried to murder Alphonse Sax so many times for the same reason He destroyed the Tower of Babel
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the audacity of bottom-feeding fake-blue-check content scrapers to insult actual astrophysicists 🙄 usually I don’t QT but here’s an easy add to your block list
Curiosity
@MAstronomers18 Jan 2023
Replying to @fille_delespace
At least 90% of the content is from NASA, which is public domain. Hardly 1 or 2% is without credit as we can't find the original author, hence contact details in the bio. We update asap when the original author is found. Congrats on the most-read tweet on your account though.
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I think it's unfair to say that Ithaca is in the "middle of nowhere" since that implies it's some sort of centralized location and it is verifiably Not
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when is grad school supposed to get better
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Chad Popik retweeted
Maura@mklally914 Dec 2022
telling my phd advisor I prefer to communicate over Nintendo DS PictoChat
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I didn’t realize what academia was doing to me until I received some positive feedback today and it felt like taking a party drug
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"This is a whole new chapter in astronomy." Webb researchers found 2 early galaxies, one of which may contain the most distant starlight ever seen. These 2 unexpectedly bright galaxies could fundamentally alter what we know about the very first stars: go.nasa.gov/3XdhoDa
Countless glowing galaxies of all shapes and sizes speckle the black backdrop of space. Some are spiral, some more disk-shaped and others spherical. Farther galaxies are only seen as dots. Their colors include blue, pink, orange, and white. Towards the center left, a red dot of a galaxy, along with some surrounding streaks of galaxies, are framed in a tiny white box. This box is attached to a close-up view in a much larger inset box. The red dot is a never-before-seen primordial galaxy discovered by Webb, thought to have existed 350 million years after the big bang.

ALT Countless glowing galaxies of all shapes and sizes speckle the black backdrop of space. Some are spiral, some more disk-shaped and others spherical. Farther galaxies are only seen as dots. Their colors include blue, pink, orange, and white. Towards the center left, a red dot of a galaxy, along with some surrounding streaks of galaxies, are framed in a tiny white box. This box is attached to a close-up view in a much larger inset box. The red dot is a never-before-seen primordial galaxy discovered by Webb, thought to have existed 350 million years after the big bang.

Large, bright white stars with long diffraction spikes are seen among countless glowing galaxies of all shapes and sizes against the black backdrop of space. Some galaxies are spiral, some more disk-shaped and others spherical. Farther galaxies are only seen as dots. Their colors include blue, pink, orange, and white. Towards the bottom left, a small reddish disk is framed in a tiny white box. This box is attached to a close-up view in a much larger inset box. This red disk is a never-before-seen primordial galaxy discovered by Webb, thought to have existed 450 million years after the big bang.]

ALT Large, bright white stars with long diffraction spikes are seen among countless glowing galaxies of all shapes and sizes against the black backdrop of space. Some galaxies are spiral, some more disk-shaped and others spherical. Farther galaxies are only seen as dots. Their colors include blue, pink, orange, and white. Towards the bottom left, a small reddish disk is framed in a tiny white box. This box is attached to a close-up view in a much larger inset box. This red disk is a never-before-seen primordial galaxy discovered by Webb, thought to have existed 450 million years after the big bang.]

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