emdwarf.bsky.social
Staff scientist at Caltech/IPAC, working on the NASA Exoplanet Archive, and studying small stars and planets. But you’ll mostly find baseball and snark here, with occasional scientific interruptions.
👤 Joined on 27 May 2023
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@emdwarf.bsky.socialI booked a flight at WHAT time tomorrow morning?? Aaargh.... Present me hates past me.
Show PostBut what good is my astronomy degree if I don't get to periodically explain leap seconds to close friends and family.
Show PostOh, innovative strategy. Do you think we could apply it to the Earth, to improve ground-based telescope observations? I'm frankly getting tired of this whole "adaptive optics" thing - it's a lot of work - and calibration would be much easier without absorbing species in the way.
Show PostOver 1,000 planets have been discovered with data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)! These additions bring the NASA Exoplanet Archive's total confirmed planet count to 6,445 🪐 Read more here: www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/more-th... 🔭
Show PostHubble Symposium as 2nd year Sagan Fellow! Presented some prelim cloudy retrieval results. Had a great time catching up with folks #BlackInAstro
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