*.* Astronomer. Instrument Builder. Enthusiast and enjoyer of life in the Universe .*.
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What are UFOs? The answer is out there... check out this special from @novapbs premiering TONIGHT and hear was @UCSDAstro prof Shelley Wright has to say about searching for intelligent life in the universe.
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#SXSW2023 #PanelPicker: buff.ly/3OP9yO7
Please vote for our panel: Finding E.T. – Then What?
Speakers: @allplanets, @Astro_Wael, @ikashell, and @danieladepaulis
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🚨 Call your congresspeople now to ask for support to fund @NASA and @NSF, protect these agencies from severe budget cuts, and let them know how important federal funding is for the astronomical sciences in the United States. aas.org/advocacy/get-involve… #astronomy
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NOW: We're holding a public meeting of our independent study team for categorizing and evaluating data of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP. More info on today's meeting: go.nasa.gov/3nVqp7g xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1djxXlRVN…
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I think @ikashell runs a super exciting program and I think that research in techno-signatures is critical and worthy of doing.
That is why I pushed NASA to accept that kind of work as part of its R&A program. It is tough for me to read some of the reviewers comments! C’mon!!😔 – at Kaanapali, HI
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How did we get such a big black hole relative to the galaxy's mass so early in the Universe (~570Myr after the big bang)? We don't know! But we can make some educated guesses! Below is a beautiful illustration by @astrosteven on different formation scenarios.
ALT A plot of black hole mass versus redshift (time increasing to the right) showing different starting masses and times for our observed black hole. The most likely scenario in our case is that this black hole was a Pop III Star (first-generation star) that collapsed and accreted material in quick bursts over ~400Myrs.
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Time to bunny suit up! Under the guidance of @ikashell & @QuinnKono physics grad student @AstroClary assembles optical mechanical components for the Gemini Planet Imaging (GPI 2.0) program in the OIRlab clean room. GPI 2.0 will improve ways to image planets around other stars.💫
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Interesting astronomy/SETI history: in the 1950s, the 61" Oak Ridge telescope at Harvard was not doing much, so Prof. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin put some graduate students up to fixing it.
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Fun for the whole family: Be sure to visit our Portable Planetarium today, hosted by @UCSDPhySci! Be an astronomer for the day with an immersed, galactic experience. Located in Student Services Center - Multipurpose Room until 5:30pm. Learn more: bit.ly/3eTcCtn
ALT Individuals sit and gaze upward at the galaxy in the Portable Planetarium.
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He was there when I entered this world, and I was there when he left:
Frank D Drake, May 28, 1930 - September 2, 2022.
Rest among the stars, my sweetest Papa D. You will always be my brightest star.
More info here: nadiadrake.com/
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Made a saturated version to pull out all the faint galaxies and wow….we are not ready for how much we going to find!
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Thanks to the contributions of a generous donor, we have revised our ticket pricing for this event! In-person event tickets are now $25 (from $50) and virtual tickets are now $10 (from $20). Please come join our celebration of Drake Award recipient Dr. Shelley Wright, @ikashell.
UPCOMING EVENT: buff.ly/3EB1CJE
Join us in person in Menlo Park, CA, or virtually to honor this year's Drake Award recipient Dr. Shelley Wright, together with a celebration of undergraduate recipients of the SETI Forward Award and the Carl Sagan Center Director's Award.
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Interested in launching your astronomy career? @UCSDPhysics has an Astronomy Ph.D. Program! Application deadline is Wednesday, Jan. 12 astronomy.ucsd.edu/admission…
@browndwarfs @ikashell
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Meet our instruments: Aloha! My name is OSIRIS. Part spectrograph, part imager, I produce some of the sharpest images. I played a key role in proving a supermassive black hole lives at the center of the Milky Way—a discovery that won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. #TechTuesday
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This is bonkers.
It turns out this is NOT a picture of Johannes Kepler!
Astronomers, update your slide decks!
physicstoday.scitation.org/d…
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2021 #NobelPrize laureate Klaus Hasselmann created a model that links together weather and climate. His methods have been used to prove that the increased temperature in the atmosphere is due to human emissions of carbon dioxide.
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Syukuro Manabe – awarded the 2021 #NobelPrize in Physics – demonstrated how increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere lead to increased temperatures at the surface of the Earth. His work laid the foundation for the development of current climate models.
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Applications for the first ever Astro Phd class at UC San Diego due January 12, 2022! Info here: astronomy.ucsd.edu Please share!
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'Just as the computer, the bicycle is a tool that amplifies our inherent abilities to spectacular magnitudes'
— Steve Jobs
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Very exciting news, our new Astronomy PhD program at UCSD was just approved by the UC Office of the President. We will be accepting applications this winter!! Please spread the word to students interested in Astro! @ikashell @coolstarlab @QuinnKono