ewan douglas
Professing on space telescopes of all sizes; Tucson, AZ.
- Reposted by ewan douglasGalaxy Slam! Meet Marcia Rieke, Regents Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory. As principal investigator for NIRCam on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, she helps reveal the universe’s earliest galaxies using infrared light. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhxf...
- why you need big telescopes for spectroscopy -- “You have to collect enough photons because you’re spreading them out,” said @chadfbender.bsky.social, an astronomer at the University of Arizona, which is in charge of LFAST. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/s...
- Reposted by ewan douglasJust spent the day doing a thing: www.science.org/content/arti... Roger Angel and I are Co-PIing the LFAST telescope, which is being built at @stewardobservatory.bsky.social and provides the ground based spectroscopic component of this venture. @schmidtsciences.bsky.social #AAS247 #Arizona #LFAST
- There is a great summary of the session from @astronomymag.bsky.social www.astronomy.com/science/eric...
- More Astrophysics for More People ✨ Join us for a virtual #AAS247 session and a first look at The Schmidt Observatory System—a new network of ground and space-based initiatives designed to break the traditional limits of discovery. 📆 Jan 7 | 3-5:30pm MT / 5-7:30pm ET Register here: buff.ly/kbbNFuB
- More Astrophysics for More People ✨ Join us for a virtual #AAS247 session and a first look at The Schmidt Observatory System—a new network of ground and space-based initiatives designed to break the traditional limits of discovery. 📆 Jan 7 | 3-5:30pm MT / 5-7:30pm ET Register here: buff.ly/kbbNFuB
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- New paper day! arxiv.org/abs/2601.02556 🔭🧪
- Reposted by ewan douglasMore Astrophysics for More People ✨ Join us for a virtual #AAS247 session and a first look at The Schmidt Observatory System—a new network of ground and space-based initiatives designed to break the traditional limits of discovery. 📆 Jan 7 | 3-5:30pm MT / 5-7:30pm ET Register here: buff.ly/kbbNFuB
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- Reposted by ewan douglasIn a new paper this month from Carlos Vargas and the Aspera team, readers get updates and context for the Steward Observatory-based mission. Learn more about this bold mission that aims to study galaxy evolution through UV light: bit.ly/3INfG93
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- new 🔭 paper day! Kian Milani and coauthors show how to save computing power and memory with an adjoint model to create high-contrast dark holes with a vortex coronagraph in simulation and reaching <1e-8 contrasts in the lab www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Jou...
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- New paper day from Carlos Vargas and the Aspera team! @stewardobservatory.bsky.social : www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Jou...
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- @stewardobservatory.bsky.social's Aspera Pioneer mission has a ride! www.nasa.gov/news-release...
- Reposted by ewan douglas"These guidelines were written by almost-retired professors who never could have met these standards back in the 1980s, when all you needed for tenure was 1.5 publications and a bottle of scotch in your desk." buff.ly/TOh3MUc
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- Reposted by ewan douglas“Women leave or consider leaving [faculty positions] because of workplace climate more often than work-life balance.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Reposted by ewan douglasExploring Tucson? The New York Times recommends heading to the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, where scientists lead "staggering viewings through giant telescopes." Be sure to book your viewing! skycenter.arizona.edu/news/nyt-spe...
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- We’re hiring a senior project manager for major space telescope programs🔭🧪🚀🚀 ask me questions! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
- Congrats Elisabeth! Many years of persistence paid off mightily!
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- New paper day! www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Jou...
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- Live feed of NASA GUSTO long-duration balloon, expected to launch any minute from near McMurdo astro.arizona.edu/news/gusto-i...
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- new paper day! Led by Postdoc Ramya Anche, this latest peer reviewed work in PASP shows the unique capabilities of the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Coronagraph modes to measure polarized light from debris disks around other stars iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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- new paper day! Monumental work by PhD candidate and NSTGRO fellow Jaren Ashcraft to implement 🔭simulation using gaussian beamlets to simultaneously propagate ray and diffraction effects
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- also at the intersection of astronomy lectures and today being indigenous people's day I learned that Kaibab Paiute is the world’s first dark sky nation. darksky.org/news/arizona...
- in the end picked a longer and more recent video, this seminar by Jon Barentine to the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association on dark skies in southern Arizona: youtu.be/9OfBe0hpl3Q?...
- in the end picked a longer and more recent video, this seminar by Jon Barentine to the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association on dark skies in southern Arizona: youtu.be/9OfBe0hpl3Q?...
- searching for good videos on light pollution to share as extra credit for 🔭 class and came across this adorable Roosevelt National Park 🏔️ video from 2015. hope they've gotten the unshielded lights replaced...
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