Shivani P. Shah
@spshah.bsky.social
Astronomy graduate student at University of Florida
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Startled to find out that my grand-advisor has her very own coinage: www.usmint.gov/american-wom...
American Women Quarters 2025 Rolls and Bags - Dr. Vera Rubin | US Mint
Check out our American Women Quarters 2025 Rolls and Bags - Dr. Vera Rubin and more from US Mint!
www.usmint.gov
January 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Startled to find out that my grand-advisor has her very own coinage: www.usmint.gov/american-wom...
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The skies above Paranal are at risk from a proposed industrial megaproject.
This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/
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📷 ESO/P. Horálek
This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/
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📷 ESO/P. Horálek
World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject
On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world [1]. The industrial megaproject is planned to be located just 5 to 11 kilometres from telescopes at Paranal, which would cause irreparable damage to astronomical observations, in particular due to light pollution emitted throughout the project’s operational life. Relocating the complex would save one of Earth's last truly pristine dark skies.
www.eso.org
January 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The skies above Paranal are at risk from a proposed industrial megaproject.
This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/
🔭
📷 ESO/P. Horálek
This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/
🔭
📷 ESO/P. Horálek
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Good reminder of this fun wrinkle in sunrise/sunset times around the December solstice. Was reminded of it looking up high tide times to plan some walks! www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... 👩🔬🔭☀️
The Winter Solstice Has a Surprising Secret
How can the December solstice have the longest night in the Northern Hemisphere but neither the earliest sunset nor the latest sunrise? Earth’s orbital quirks offer answers
www.scientificamerican.com
December 23, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Good reminder of this fun wrinkle in sunrise/sunset times around the December solstice. Was reminded of it looking up high tide times to plan some walks! www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... 👩🔬🔭☀️
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“Do not use your phone to answer phone calls” is not advice as much as it’s a condemnation of regulatory inaction that has led a vital means of communication to ruin.
The first rule of avoiding scam calls is to never answer unknown numbers, and even some known ones.
Curious? Bored? Worried it’s an emergency? Wait the extra minute it takes for the call to go to voice mail, then decide if it’s legitimate.
Curious? Bored? Worried it’s an emergency? Wait the extra minute it takes for the call to go to voice mail, then decide if it’s legitimate.
Sick of scams? Stop answering your phone.
Phone scams are still hugely popular — and they depend entirely on people curious enough to answer.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 17, 2024 at 8:53 PM
“Do not use your phone to answer phone calls” is not advice as much as it’s a condemnation of regulatory inaction that has led a vital means of communication to ruin.
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Our paper on the Barbenheimer Star is now published in ApJL! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... We at @sdssurveys.bsky.social find evidence for an ancient explosion of an unusually massive star that should have collapsed to a black hole. Thread and 🔭
Image: UChicago/SDSS-V/Melissa Weiss
Image: UChicago/SDSS-V/Melissa Weiss
January 31, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Our paper on the Barbenheimer Star is now published in ApJL! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... We at @sdssurveys.bsky.social find evidence for an ancient explosion of an unusually massive star that should have collapsed to a black hole. Thread and 🔭
Image: UChicago/SDSS-V/Melissa Weiss
Image: UChicago/SDSS-V/Melissa Weiss
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The "Barbenheimer Star": Evidence for Spectacular Nucleosynthesis in the Early Universe
www.sdss.org/barbenheimer...
www.sdss.org/barbenheimer...
January 10, 2024 at 7:03 PM
The "Barbenheimer Star": Evidence for Spectacular Nucleosynthesis in the Early Universe
www.sdss.org/barbenheimer...
www.sdss.org/barbenheimer...
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Excited about near-field cosmology, Galactic dynamics, and Rubin/LSST? Apply for a postdoc in my new group at the University of Washington! Please spread the word to interested applicants, reach out if you have questions, and/or come find me at AAS! 🔭
Due: Jan 15
jobregister.aas.org/ad/82a47f8f
Due: Jan 15
jobregister.aas.org/ad/82a47f8f
January 5, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Excited about near-field cosmology, Galactic dynamics, and Rubin/LSST? Apply for a postdoc in my new group at the University of Washington! Please spread the word to interested applicants, reach out if you have questions, and/or come find me at AAS! 🔭
Due: Jan 15
jobregister.aas.org/ad/82a47f8f
Due: Jan 15
jobregister.aas.org/ad/82a47f8f
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It's paper day on the globular cluster M92! Evan Kirby went deep into the Keck/HIRES archive and measured r-process abundances. We confirm the long-debated r-process dispersion in M92, but it's confined to the normal/1G population.
arxiv.org/abs/2308.10980
🔭 and storytime in thread...
arxiv.org/abs/2308.10980
🔭 and storytime in thread...
August 30, 2023 at 2:26 PM
It's paper day on the globular cluster M92! Evan Kirby went deep into the Keck/HIRES archive and measured r-process abundances. We confirm the long-debated r-process dispersion in M92, but it's confined to the normal/1G population.
arxiv.org/abs/2308.10980
🔭 and storytime in thread...
arxiv.org/abs/2308.10980
🔭 and storytime in thread...