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Laura Fissel

@LauraMFissel

Astronomer and ballooning enthusiast. Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy @queensu. (Pronouns: she/her)

 Kingston, Ontario
Joined January 2017
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Solar eclipse glasses are available starting today!🌞🌑 #QueensU is providing 120,000 ISO-certified eclipse glasses for the safety of our campus and #YGK communities. Get your free 🕶️ on Queen's campus or at a @KFPL branch. Find glasses near you: bit.ly/49WSygT
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Launching in 1.5 hours! I'm in Kingston so all I can do to check the status of our experiment is to watch our status LED blink on the HiCIBaS live video feed. – at Kingston, Ontario
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Live feed for the balloon launch here: facebook.com/hicibas/videos/… – at Kingston, Ontario
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And it our experiments are off to the stratosphere! Thanks to Hicibas for streaming the launch so we could follow along from home.
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Leaving Timmins, ON after a busy few days! – at Timmins, Ontario
BVEXTeam at Gillies Lake

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Fireweed at Gillies Lake

ALT Fireweed at Gillies Lake

An small experiment being installed on a balloon gondola

ALT An small experiment being installed on a balloon gondola

A stratospheric balloon lit up by the setting Sun

ALT A stratospheric balloon lit up by the setting Sun

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To test out our ability to track position the Canadian Space Agency will launch BVEXTracker. Basically it is a shoebox-size plastic box full of position tracking sensors. – at Timmins, Ontario
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Our experiment will launch after we are back in Kingston but as a bonus we got to watch the BeSAFE experiment launch last night at sunset and it was spectacular! – at Timmins, Ontario
BVEX team with an inflating balloon in the background

ALT BVEX team with an inflating balloon in the background

A stratospheric balloon released and moving towards a smaller balloon and gondola

ALT A stratospheric balloon released and moving towards a smaller balloon and gondola

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On April 8th, 2024, the first total solar eclipse in almost 700 years will pass through Kingston! A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon lies perfectly between the Earth and Sun, completely blocking the Sun's light. In Kingston, this blockage will last 3 minutes and 4 seconds!#ygk
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Exactly one year from today at 3:22pm Kingston time there will be a total solar eclipse. The Moon will fully block our view of the Sun and we will have a full 3 minutes of darkness! #Eclipse2024 – at Kingston, Ontario
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Itziar Aretxaga@ItziMex30 Jan 2023
Our first @LMT_TolTEC images from commissioning data are beautiful. Here M1 (Crab Nebula) at 1.1/1.4/2.0mm. More engineering and commissioning data tonight, hopefully, and more info on first images here: toltec.astro.umass.edu/news.… @gtmlmt_oficial @inaoe_mx
A mm-wavelength view of M1 - the Crab Nebula. This three-color composite is made up of 1.1mm (blue), 1.4mm (green), and 2.0mm (red) emission detected by TolTEC. Warning: this preliminary reduction is right off of the telescope. Don't attempt to use this for scientific purposes.

ALT A mm-wavelength view of M1 - the Crab Nebula. This three-color composite is made up of 1.1mm (blue), 1.4mm (green), and 2.0mm (red) emission detected by TolTEC. Warning: this preliminary reduction is right off of the telescope. Don't attempt to use this for scientific purposes.

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This story from @nasa is causing confusion- black holes don’t make sounds! So what’s actually happening?
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@NASAExoplanets21 Aug 2022
The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!

NASA Data Sonification: Black Hole Remix

In this sonification of Perseus, the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time. The sound waves were extracted outward from the center.

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Our next Astronomer in Residence (AIR) is arriving at Killarney Park this July 18th! Astronomer Parisa Nozari will be up at Killarney Park until July 31st. Parisa is a graduate student in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Queen's University.
Image from Allan I. Carswell Observatory (@yorkobservatory)
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The space telescope is IN SPACE 😭😭😭😭
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Congratulations to everyone involved - so many years to get to #JWSTLaunch and what a launch it's been! The number of people it takes to get this done is mind-boggling. Whole careers have been spent on it. So much joy 🥰
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El Telescopio Espacial James Webb, con la Tierra a su derecha. Una imagen histórica #GoWebb #UnfoldTheUniverse
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There it goes!! #JWST #UnfoldTheUniverse
Image from Joalda Morancy (@solarrsystem)
Image from Joalda Morancy (@solarrsystem)
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