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Maddie Lam

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PhD in Astrophysics at Trinity College Dublin studying atmospheres and clouds on brown dwarfs (aka overachieving planets) ☁️🪐 Previously at: University of Sydney, Lund University they/them https://madeline-lam.github.io/

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Evert Nasedkin @evertnasedkin.bsky.social · 16d

🔭 It's paper day! Today I'm sharing the latest in a series of papers looking at the weather on other worlds, in this case bringing you the weather report from a nearby T-dwarf, SIMP-0136. 🪐

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ESO @eso.org · Aug 26

A very hungry planet! 🪐

What appears to be a ripple in space is actually a newborn planet, eating its way through its dusty cradle around a younger version of our Sun 🌞

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/

🔭 🧪 #exoplanets
📷 ESO/R. van Capelleveen et al.

A white protoplanetary disc at the centre of the picture takes up most of the frame. The elliptical cloud of dust and gas consists of some gaps creating a ring-like structure to the cloud. In one of the larger gaps/rings a little dot (a planet) is visible.

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Maddie Lam @maddielam.bsky.social · Jul 22

Congrats Cian!!! Super hyped to see what comes out of it

Cian O'Toole @astrotoole.bsky.social · Jul 22

I'm absolutely delighted to share that my Hubble Space Telescope proposal has been accepted! We will search for the first UV detection of an aurora outside the solar system on the brown dwarf 2M1047, using simultaneous observations from HST and the VLA.
Stay tuned for some very exciting science! 🔭📡

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Maddie Lam @maddielam.bsky.social · Jul 16

Attended my first ever conference last month at #EASCork! Super inspiring to hear about what’s going on in exoplanets and brown dwarfs!

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