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Jenna Moore, Ph. D. 🔭✨ @drjmo.bsky.social · Jun 11

it me!

arXiv bot (astro-ph) @krxiv-astro-ph.bsky.social · Jun 11

Integrated Galaxy Light from Stacking $10^5$ Random Pointings in the Dark Energy Survey Data
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08162
Jenna E. Moore, Seth H. Cohen, Philip Mauskopf, Evan Scannapieco.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08162

arXiv abstract link

arxiv.org

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Jenna Moore, Ph. D. 🔭✨ @drjmo.bsky.social · Jun 2

timeline cleanse (feat. local dahlias!! in june!! 🫨)

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Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · May 29

Take a bit of time today to explore this mind blowing JWST image 🤯

You’re looking at a cluster, 4.5 billion light years away, whose gravity is warping space and lensing the light of background galaxies. This is one of the deepest JWST images ever… (cont.)

📸: NASA, ESA, CSA, H Atek, M Zamani

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Jenna Moore, Ph. D. 🔭✨ @drjmo.bsky.social · May 1

timeline cleanse

a large flower arrangement sits on a small table. the vase overflows with peonies, ranunculus, snapdragons, and baptisia in shades of pink, white, orange, and yellow.

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Simons Observatory @simonsobservatory.org · Apr 28

We had snow last week at our site! Our telescopes 🔭 like being cold, our teams not so much. Here you are looking inside the sun-shield of one of the SO SATs, the actual lenses and the focal plane sit beneath that shiny cover, cooled to cryogenic temperatures.
Image credit: Dr Elle Shaw, UT Austin

A front view of one of the SO Small aperture telescopes from up close. The top half of the image is filled by a conical structure we are looking into: its inside is covered with a white, wallpaper looking structure. There is snow piled up on the bottom lip of the cone. At the end of the cone is an aluminium foil cover.
Beneath and behind the cone you can see a white metal platform that holds the rest of the telescope, including its mount. Various surfaces are covered in snow, black cables meander around the scene.
In the background, a deep blue sky and a shiny screen that provides additional sun and terrain shielding.

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Jenna Moore, Ph. D. 🔭✨ @drjmo.bsky.social · Apr 15

normalize WFP (work from porch)

a laptop sits on top of a patio table on a wooden deck. tall, green, leafy, trees surround the entire deck. the morning sunshine peeks through the leaves.

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Jenna Moore, Ph. D. 🔭✨ @drjmo.bsky.social · Apr 14

😌

a raised bed garden, one plot has a teepee with a few small green bean plants, another plot has many small edamame plants.

Jenna Moore, Ph. D. 🔭✨ @drjmo.bsky.social · Apr 10

@evevavagiakis.bsky.social introduces Large™️ @simonsobservatory.org telescope to a standing room only crowd at @astronomyontap.bsky.social Durham!

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Jenna Moore, Ph. D. 🔭✨ @drjmo.bsky.social · Apr 5

timeline cleanse

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Jenna Moore, Ph. D. 🔭✨ @drjmo.bsky.social · Mar 29

nutmeg hopes you have a great weekend 🐐

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Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · Mar 27

Hold on to your butt because we got an incredible new image from JWST! 🤯 This is an Einstein ring, formed by the gravity of a massive elliptical galaxy (center) warping space and distorting the light coming from objects behind it….

📸: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Mahler

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Jenna Moore, Ph. D. 🔭✨ @drjmo.bsky.social · Mar 27

the horrors persist, but so do the tomatoes (and eggplant!)

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Eve Vavagiakis @evevavagiakis.bsky.social · Mar 27

@drjmo.bsky.social cross stitched this incredible sign for the lab, and today our amazing undergrad researcher Haley sent me this photo of a new plant next to it 🥲 I can’t handle how nice this is

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Jenna Moore, Ph. D. 🔭✨ @drjmo.bsky.social · Mar 22

timeline cleanse

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Jenna Moore, Ph. D. 🔭✨ @drjmo.bsky.social · Mar 22

employee perks!

Eve Vavagiakis @evevavagiakis.bsky.social · Mar 22

We enjoyed the cherry blossoms yesterday at Duke Gardens! A lovely end to Phil Mauskopf’s visit. @drjmo.bsky.social

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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · Mar 18

The @simonsobservatory.org recently completed the installation of its Large Aperture Telescope, joining its three Small Aperture Telescopes. These telescopes will collect the most precise measurements yet of the universe’s oldest light. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/03/17/s... #science #astronomy

Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Achieves First Light Milestone

Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Achieves First Light Milestone on Simons Foundation

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Jenna Moore, Ph. D. 🔭✨ @drjmo.bsky.social · Mar 19

despite the horrors, tomatoes.

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Simons Observatory @simonsobservatory.org · Mar 17

We have first light on our Large Aperture Telescope! www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/03/17/s...
After installing our mirrors over the last few weeks, we have started looking at the sky. We are still tuning the telescope, but we can already make maps of objects in the sky, like Mars. ☄️🔭🧪

A green dot (Mars) surrounded by a white ring on a purple background. A faint white x pattern is visible

One of the mirrors being lowered by crane inside the white box that constitutes the LAT housing. Behind it is the barren landscape of the Atacama desert

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Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · Mar 14

Y’ALL. You know how we had a lunar eclipse last night? Well if you’re on the moon, what you see is a SOLAR eclipse where the Earth blocks out the sun. And the Blue Ghost lander SAW THAT LAST NIGHT. THIS IS A SOLAR ECLIPSE FROM THE MOON 🤯

📸: Firefly Aerospace

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Jenna Moore, Ph. D. 🔭✨ @drjmo.bsky.social · Mar 12

bye, SPHEREx! do great science! 🥹

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Jenna Moore, Ph. D. 🔭✨ @drjmo.bsky.social · Mar 12

go SPHEREx!! go PUNCH!! 🚀✨

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Simons Observatory @simonsobservatory.org · Mar 4

We have two preprints out on the arXiv today 🔭☄️!
The first one is about an #NSFFunded upgrade to our Large Aperture Telescope, roughly doubling the number of detectors in it: arxiv.org/abs/2503.00636 enabling us to probe the sky deeper than ever. The paper was led by Susan Clark and Colin Hill.

A timeline of the LAT's status between 2020 and 2034. Construction lasts until 2025, the LAT gets upgraded sometimes in 2028, sensitivity raises with time to 2.5 microK/arcmin over 20000 square degrees. 3d renders show the LAT and the focal plane getting filled up

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Jenna Moore, Ph. D. 🔭✨ @drjmo.bsky.social · Mar 3

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Jenna Moore, Ph. D. 🔭✨ @drjmo.bsky.social · Mar 3

the marathon experience summed up in one photo

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Jenna Moore, Ph. D. 🔭✨ @drjmo.bsky.social · Mar 3

two weeks, two readout harnesses for advanced @simonsobs.bsky.social!

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