janiceleeastro
✨ looking to our future with NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory (SuperHubble!) & AI
✨ studying star formation and star clusters in nearby galaxies with PHANGS, Hubble, JWST
- Congrats @leefeinberg.bsky.social !! 🎉🧪🔭
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- so grateful to everyone who showed up and made the case for sustaining science and discovery 🔭✨🧪
- “The Habitable Worlds Observatory is exactly the kind of bold, forward-leaning science that only NASA can undertake...” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman... 🔭✨🧪🧵☄️ #exoplanets #extragalactic
- “Humanity is waiting for the breakthroughs this mission is capable of achieving and the questions it could help us answer about life in the universe. We intend to move with urgency, and expedite timelines to the greatest extent possible to bring these discoveries to the world.”
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- arxiv.org/abs/2511.03715 #habitableworldsobservatory 🔭🧪☄️ The search for life is one frontier. HWO will be built to unlock all the others too.✨ #extragalactic
- NASA's #habitableworldsobservatory building a #superhubble in the race to answer fundamental questions about life in the Universe, the place of humanity in the cosmos, and where explorers could dare to go next✨🧪🔭☄️ #exoplanet #extragalactic
- Reposted by janiceleeastroChatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
- post-JWST deadline reflections... the ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week returns to the galaxy that started our PHANGS team journey with JWST ✨🔭🧪 iopscience.iop.org/collections/... and so much still to be learned 🤞 #extragalactic
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[Not loaded yet] - One of my faves, among the galaxies that we're studying. Uncommonly beautiful because of its striking "flocculent" spiral morphology. We've learned its star clusters tell a story of gas accreted from a neighbor, rejuvenating the disk🧪🔭 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... #extragalactic #astrosci
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- Reposted by janiceleeastroToday, we mourn the memory of those we lost on September 11, 2001. We also come together to honor the brave heroes, like our first responders, who risked their lives that tragic day to save countless others. Their sacrifice can never be repaid. We will never forget.
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- "no evidence supporting a statistically significant trend of [O star] multiplicity properties with metallicity" still high (~70%) in the SMC - interesting! 🔭🧪 #AstroSci #extragalactic
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- Reposted by janiceleeastroThe Habitable Worlds Observatory is early in its development as a large infrared/optical/ultraviolet space telescope. Many designs are under consideration, including this artist's concept animation. More about the planned observatory: go.nasa.gov/HWO #HWO2025 #HWO25 🔭 🧪 ☄️
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- what a week for our future✨ #HWO25 🧵coming soon🔭🧪☄️ @mmacgreg.bsky.social @hbhammel.bsky.social @bmacastro.bsky.social @dawngelino.bsky.social @aussiastronomer.bsky.social @stsci.edu @aura-astronomy.bsky.social @justtheletteru.bsky.social @vividreams.bsky.social @leefeinberg.bsky.social +500 others
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- "I've had to go through so much... just in order to become a child again and begin anew." - Hesse Life is a journey. Thank you to the (newly minted!) Dr @abigaillee.bsky.social for reflecting on it with me. 🔭🧪 astrobites.org/2025/05/28/i...
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- Jared Isaacman confirmation hearing for NASA Administrator scheduled to begin in just a few minutes✨🔭😜☄️ stream: www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/4/nomin... opening statement: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
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- Reposted by janiceleeastroVera Rubin has been selected to be featured on the back of a quarter. She is the first astronomer to be honored this way. Read about her research on the Andromeda galaxy and how it led to the discovery of dark matter in this article written by Rubin herself. doi.org/10.1063/1.24... 🔭 #WomenInStem
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- a bit of joy from connecting with someone by old-school post 📭 ✨🔭 store.usps.com/store/produc...
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- Relieved to report that our PHANGS paper has finally been accepted for publication in ApJ! To our knowledge, this is the first census for dust obscured star-formation at the star cluster scale across a broad set of nearby galaxies. 🧵[1/n]🔭🧪#extragalactic
- #extragalactic #paperday arxiv.org/abs/2412.07862 ✨🔭🧪 with STScI postdoc Jimena Rodriguez! where we search for dusty star clusters in 19 nearby galaxies using the PHANGS-JWST Treasury Survey, and find a very short timescale (<3 Myr) for the dust embedded phase. Fig 17 & 18 are my favs!
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- “Think of #habitableworldsobservatory as a #superhubble... capable of.. transformative astrophysics” said Arney, “as well as.. the 1st observatory ever designed to search for signs of life on planets outside of our solar system.”#exoplanets www.thespacereview.com/article/4930/1 🔭@jfoust.bsky.social
- JWST N628 Stamp issued🔭 #extragalactic🧪https://shorturl.at/Xqrtk Easy to forget that this is an actual place, a place w/ billions of ✨ and planets where we cannot travel. Astronomy has guided humanity through the cosmos Humbling to reflect on the role we will play as our presence grows beyond Earth
- My eyes are closed here, but what's important is that Hubble and JWST's are wide open 👀 & you can actually scan the QR code in the photo 🔭🧪 Amazing PHANGS showing @ #AAS245 with >30 talks+posters✨ A privilege to be working with such a fantastic group of scientists & human beings #extragalactic
- "65 Hubble orbits for spectral mapping of Haro 11 in the ultraviolet.... that's not ok." Dr. Bethan James We need a #superhubble! Come join us at the #AAS245 #habitableworldsobservatory special session 10am Wed, Potomac Ballroom C ✨🔭🧪 #extragalactic
- Fantastic #aas245 poster by undergrad Sophia Rivera! A pilot study on whether convolutional neural networks can be trained to predict star cluster ages directly from PHANGS Hubble images✨ check out her Chambliss finalist poster 👉 aas245-aas.ipostersessions.com/default.aspx... 🔭🧪 #extragalactic
- ✨may 2025 bring you strength, courage, renewed determination, and hope✨🔭 #extragalactic
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- surreal 🔭🧪 #PHANGS-JWST NCG628 imaging is being turned into a US POSTAGE STAMP ✉️ !! ✨The imaging has truly taken a life of its own. Grateful for the amazing village of collaborators, comms folks, USPS for bringing the universe to people's doorsteps.✨ #extragalactic www.space.com/usps-james-w...
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- #extragalactic #paperday arxiv.org/abs/2412.07862 ✨🔭🧪 with STScI postdoc Jimena Rodriguez! where we search for dusty star clusters in 19 nearby galaxies using the PHANGS-JWST Treasury Survey, and find a very short timescale (<3 Myr) for the dust embedded phase. Fig 17 & 18 are my favs!
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- at #AGU24? check out the Habitable Worlds Observatory events! cool flyer from @vividreams.bsky.social ✨🔭🧪#exoplanets #planetsci #hwo
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- #extragalactic testing...testing...
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- ✨🔭🧪 Looking ahead to #HWO25, inspiration from 1989: the 1st JWST workshop proceedings, 9 months b4 Hubble’s launch. On cover: the then-imagined groundbreaking observations of a galaxy at redshift ONE. How far we’ve come! #HWO25 will shape a similar 'community science book' for the next era.
- Seeking community input for HWO tech development roadmaps to be draft by year end! 🧪🔭✨ exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/events/...
- Huge news! an official project office for Habitable Worlds Observatory, the next NASA astrophysics flagship mission, opened for business at GSFC on Aug 1✨🧪 The HWO Technology Maturation Project Office (HTeMPO, pronounced “tempo”) will lead development of HWO science objectives and architectures🔭
- Imagine space servicing of observatories at Lagrange Point 2 and multiple generations of instrumentation - workshop starts tomorrow! #habitableworldsobservatory ✨🔭🧪 Check out apd440.gsfc.nasa.gov/2024Workshop...
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