Ryan White
Astrophysics student at Macquarie University, artist, bread obsessed. Studying cool (but actually quite hot) stars 🌟 @astrobites.bsky.social author 🪐 i have art too! @ryanwhiteartist.bsky.social 🖌️
ryanwhite1.github.io
(he/him)
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteFrom Ryan White @astroryan.bsky.social : There are a few locations in the solar system where the push and pull of gravity mellows out and you can orbit in (relative) peace. Read all about these islands of tranquility we call Lagrange points! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/01/29/w...
- Reposted by Ryan Whiteyour top 5 home cooked breakfasts of 2025, wrapped 5. june 11- two hard boiled eggs, salt and pepper, eaten over the sink 4. september 3- two hard boiled eggs, salt and pepper, eaten over the sink 3. february 23- two hard boiled eggs, salt and pepper, eaten over the sink 2. november 14- two h
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteStories from #SpaceAustralia in 2025: Checking out the God of Chaos — Apep — using JWST and the VLT. This unique triple stellar system is wild! Some nice work on one of the papers here led by fellow Macquarie University student Ryan White! 🔭
- Two new papers have used data from JWST and ESO's VLT to help uncover new details of the chaos amongst the stars: Apep @rami.spaceaustralia.com spoke with one of the paper's lead authors @astroryan.bsky.social about this incredible system. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/order-a... #SpaceAustralia 🔭
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteThe 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteTerrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
- Reposted by Ryan Whitethe epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteI don’t know how these people have gotten guns, but there needs to be a crackdown. We cannot be like the US and allows this shit to happen. It’s unclear how many victims there are, but I hope for a speedy recovery for them. Fuck those shooter cunts.
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Ryan WhiteFrom Ryan White @astroryan.bsky.social : What does a stellar breakup look like? So dramatic that the stars can’t wait to get away from each other! Today’s authors use physics to search for the one who got away. ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2025/12/09/s...
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteEvery ad for AI is like Person: FUCK!! I don’t know what to get my loved one for Christmas!!!!!! I love them so much!!! Tell me what to do, AI!! AI: get sock Title Card: You are literally the smartest person for doing this
- Reposted by Ryan Whitewow, what a title !!! Rutgers University feature on me + GRB 250702B! It was so nice to work with Kitta on this. Hope you enjoy the read ! 🧪🔭👩🏼🔬☄️🦖 www.rutgers.edu/news/astroph...
- Reposted by Ryan White"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteEvery wondered how we know that supermassive black holes are so supermassive? Well one trick is to watch how light echoes around them, using "reverberations" to map how big they are. In my latest paper I close out the Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES) to measure the masses of hundreds of SMBH.
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteRyan White reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on simulations that explore whether a baby neutron star repeatedly diving into the envelope of its inflated companion star could be the cause of bumpy supernova light curves. aasnova.org/2025/12/02/b... 🔭
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteThis is a staggering cool JWST image of one of the most terrifying star systems I have ever seen. Apep is a monster… *three* monsters, actually, and blasting out radiation and dust and junk at speeds to freeze the soul. Read all about it! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-ridiculo... 🔭 🧪
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- Reposted by Ryan Whitei’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years
- This is absolutely unreal!! Our Webb image in APOD!!!! This is getting framed
- Reposted by Ryan White(guy running 26 miles) Those trash cans are too far
- i'm seeing cricket posts from people living in the US, trying to discern whether they're trashing england or australia. genuinely a hard exercise
- Reposted by Ryan Whitea good amount of cricket commentary is like "you may not realize it but it'd be good for the batting side to get more runs"
- Reposted by Ryan Whiteevery day I get emails
- A terrific writeup from @rami.spaceaustralia.com on our recent Apep results and press release! Would highly recommend giving it a read :)
- Two new papers have used data from JWST and ESO's VLT to help uncover new details of the chaos amongst the stars: Apep @rami.spaceaustralia.com spoke with one of the paper's lead authors @astroryan.bsky.social about this incredible system. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/order-a... #SpaceAustralia 🔭
- Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry. 1/? ⚛️🔭🧪 science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
- We have modelled the 3D geometry of the nebula better than ever before, learning about the Wolf-Rayet binary orbit and confirming that there is a third star (an blue supergiant) in the system too! 2/? ⚛️🔭🧪
- Both my and our team's companion papers are also published in ApJ today! Take a read for all of your Apep needs: My paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... Yinuo Han's paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... 3/? ⚛️🔭🧪
- To finish it off, I've also done an annotated version of the paper complete with silly drawings and accessible language! These are inspired by @clairelamman.bsky.social , and you can read this and more here: ryanwhite1.github.io/wolf-rayet.h... 4/4 ⚛️🔭🧪
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- Reposted by Ryan Whitebeing a part of @astrobites.bsky.social was one of the best things I did in grad school !! such a supportive collaboration where everyone just wants to make astronomy better apply ! apply ! apply ! 🧪☄️🔭
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteYou might’ve heard the news: SpaceX just passed 10,000 Starlink satellites launched. And that number is already old news, as there’s now a new Starlink batch launched every other day. Here’s what that looks like in a short animation of Comet A6 Lemmon courtesy of Michael Jaeger:
- Reposted by Ryan Whitethe Americans might be emotionally ready for cricket now
- nothing more disappointing to me in contemporary classical than a banger of a piano song that's only 1 or 2 minutes. give me an 8 to 20 minute song that will leave me an emotional wreck, please
- the astrobites content is going crazy this week: a new bite by me about a neat result. check it out!
- From Ryan White @astroryan.bsky.social : What does the surface of a red supergiant star look like? It’s no polarising statement to say that it has more in common with a pot of bubbling soup than you might think! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/10/21/a...
- Reposted by Ryan White*shouting over the sound of cooling fans* CLOUD COMPUTING? NO, I SAID LOUD COMPUTING!
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteWhat do marine microplankton have to do with high energy cosmic rays? Astrobites author Ryan White @astroryan.bsky.social explains! 🔭✨☄️ You can learn more by checking out Ryan’s piece “What doesn’t kill them makes them (marine microplankton) stronger”: astrobites.org/2025/10/15/m...
- Reposted by Ryan Whiteas a several-movies-a-week-american i need "now you see me, now you don't" to flop like i need oxygen to breathe
- Reposted by Ryan Whitethis is bait for the losers who always comment on these "haha yeah I think it's dumb too...I only use it for these things that I don't realize are also dumb"
- Reposted by Ryan White1.5 hour timelapse of the Sun in hydrogen-alpha. I set this up quite late in the day and the Sun was pretty quiet so I was surprised how much evolution is visible in the prominences, granulation and the active region. I'll have to try more of this. Video is set to loop forwards, then in reverse 🔭
- Reposted by Ryan Whitesometimes after they tuck the president in at night he secretly stays up past his bedtime posting a hundred AI slop videos from the same account he uses to issue official policy statements. it rocks.
- Reposted by Ryan Whitefarm to table doesn't impress me. let my food go on a journey. let it see the world
- BREAKING: me
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteCurious what is it like working at ESO? @jaydewst.bsky.social describes the experience of a Summer Research Student at our HQ in Germany 👇 jaydewillingham.github.io/Rd2Dr_Pages/... By the way, several opportunities for students are still open 👉 recruitment.eso.org 🔭 🧪
- new from me! with a little drawing to boot
- From Ryan White @astroryan.bsky.social : As the Sun bobs its head above and below the Galactic plane, the Earth’s marine microplankton flock in crowds to see the beautiful view. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/10/15/m...
- i guess i'm out of retirement folks
- Hot off the press - a wonderful oceanic sunrise scene. And so my 5 year art hiatus is officially broken... #D2 - 'Sunrise Waves', painted with Clip Studio Paint and completed on 15th of October, 2025.
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteHaving fun with Letterboxd Lists
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteAnd as a bonus, here's a false-color composite of the same. Blue is mapped to all of visible, green is infrared beyond 850nm, and red is the methane band at 889nm. 🔭 #astrophotography #saturn
- Been imaging Saturn while its rings are nearly edge-on and tried some infrared filters. At this 889nm methane band, Saturn strongly absorbs light, whereas its rings scatter equally across wavelengths. Also a good visual demo of how astronomers measure exoplanet atmospheres! 🔭🧪 #astrophotography
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteBeen imaging Saturn while its rings are nearly edge-on and tried some infrared filters. At this 889nm methane band, Saturn strongly absorbs light, whereas its rings scatter equally across wavelengths. Also a good visual demo of how astronomers measure exoplanet atmospheres! 🔭🧪 #astrophotography
- Reposted by Ryan Whitegot a nice email from someone in austria asking me to rotate a Leberkässemmel, an austere meatloaf and mustard sandwich on kaiser roll i was previously unfamiliar with. i figured what the hell, let's rotate it and rotate it fast
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteI'm delving quite heavily into digital art for the first time and it's amazing to me how streamlined it makes everything. The atmosphere gradient here would have taken me *hours* with physical media, but took about 10 minutes with Clip Studio Paint. I'm in awe
- i just had a look at the materials i need to teach for a data science course this week and the lecturer teaches students to do `fig, ax = plt.subplots(...) ax.plot(...)` rather than `plt.plot(...)` i have never been so happy
- you definitely want to see One Battle After Another in the cinema. good lord.
- im tired boss
- well this just makes me equal parts furious and sad
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteNew paper by me and @benjaminpope.bsky.social! How well can we map a star using optical interferometry? This is just a submitted preprint at the moment--comments and questions welcome! (1/N) arxiv.org/abs/2509.25433
- The art:
- the artist:
- Reposted by Ryan Whitehere are some helpful steps for academics who are considering creating genAI images to use for lab branding: 1. don't
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteTawny Frogmouth. Looks like a cross between a muppet and an owl. Possibly one of Australia's weirder birds. Taken with Canon R5 & 300mm f4 on Aug 31 #birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #ausbird
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteThis is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteThis week began my new grad class on time domain astro. Wrapped first class with an activity: campfire stories, draw the light curve of a camp fire. Students had a ton of great intuition and I hope it sets the stage for some critical data analysis! 🔭🧪⛺️🪵🔥
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteNew dice from The Dice Lab (me and Robert Fathauer), which may (?) be useful if you regularly write equations. youtube.com/shorts/fgMox...
- For those of you who don't know, I used to be a professional landscape artist! I've made an account for my art here on bsky, and I'll be trying to post a painting every day from my back catalogue. Follow to see how I developed as an artist over the years!
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteThe JWST had a new look into the IC348 star forming region last year, and here's my processed image of that observation! 🔭 IC348 is located some 1,000 light years away from us and is made of hundreds of new stars born there. HD: flic.kr/p/2ruCvCz
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- you can export .pptx slides to pngs with Office365, but if you want to change the dpi of the .png end product you need to *hard code* the dpi into a registry subkey on your computer... what the hell even is Windows
- anyway here's the .png export from powerpoint in question
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteI've been nothing but a paragon of civility while using my fork and knife to carve a bit of your flesh out—just a bit, not even a lot—and you've done nothing but argue loudly and even scream at me.
- Reposted by Ryan WhiteWhile housing is not a human right, investment absolutely is. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- just ate instant noodles while watching The Bear and i feel like a criminal
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- Reposted by Ryan Whitethe final insult of AI is going to be forcing us all to become linux guys. we're all going to be like oh yeah downloading stuff on linux is super easy you just juice the tarball and compile the pulp in the sudo command line. not like windows where you have to click on things
