When an astrophysicist is listed as one of the 100 Most Influential People precisely because she is an incredible astrophysicist, my heart sings and I have ballooning hope for humanity. Congratulations Priyamvada Natarajan!

Etak, GPS, Pong, and Polynesian navigation, all in one article sharing some history of your in-car navigation system. So good! (sent to me by Aaron Dragushan) maphappenings.com/2024/04/11/sto…

I love framing research goals as Big Questions. w/ Interplanetary Initiative at ASU

We have a new postdoc position on exoplanet atmospheres (any combination of data analysis, forward models, and retrievals): jpl.jobs/job/R4921/Post… Join us for an exciting and rewarding time to develop your science/career, with the opportunity to work on many JWST observations

If you are at Space Symposium today, come hear about Habitable Worlds Observatory at 130PM at the Space Science track at Cheyenne. Super interesting panelists from science to technology to servicing + rockets!

Paul Byrne Yes the 360° sunset has always blown my mind during a total solar eclipse. Image from my 360° camera. Fredericton NB

The ASU/UofA team of the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project works in our Interplanetary Lab! They will release a high-altitude balloon Monday, 4/8, to view the solar eclipse!
Follow the livestream Monday: bitly.ws/3hqFe
More here: bitly.ws/3hqF2
#ASUSpace

NASA Wallops to Launch Three Sounding Rockets During Solar Eclipse  via NASA ift.tt/Yq2LWFt

I'm trying to convince someone that a partial eclipse is nothing like a total eclipse. I said, 'A partial eclipse is like a cup of flour compared to eating a hot pizza. You just can't imagine that cup of flour can turn into a delicious pizza.'

Got another one?

☄️It’s true! NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has brought back 121 grams of ancient matter from an asteroid named Bennu. It cost of $1.2 billion. But what it can tell us about the dawn of the solar system, and the creation of life itself, is priceless.

A 🧵on the key findings so far:

Super excited to have Luis Welbanks (Luis Welbanks) stay on and Megan Weiner Mansfield join us as 51 Peg b Fellows School of Earth and Space Exploration! Welcome aboard!

Studying the stars 🤩

ULLYSES, the largest Hubble program ever executed, is entering a new era.

After collecting data on ~500 young stars over the span of 3 years, scientists are ready to dig in to learn more on how stars form and impact surroundings: go.nasa.gov/3ISGtNY

Breaking news: the Event Horizon Telescope team unveils strong magnetic fields spiraling at the edge of Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*. This new image suggests that strong magnetic fields may be common to all black holes.

#OurBlackHole #SgrABlackHole

For those who heard me talk about coronal holes at #ExSSV , a new large one on the Sun may send us some high-speed solar wind. Geomagnetic storms may be coming...

It's a big day for our Nature paper (with a cover feature)! With Fan Liu, David Yong, and many other incredible colleagues, we demonstrate that planet engulfment is surprisingly common. It indicates that numerous planetary systems are unstable.
nature.com/articles/s4158…
More soon!

Hey, #ExSSV ! If you are excited about the prospects for finding auroras on exoplanets, come find me at poster 624.42 tomorrow (Thursday) and let’s chat! No auroras from exoplanets so far, but we’re knocking down those upper limits! I feel like we’re so close!

.NASA JPL is hosting a *UV Science and Instrumentation Workshop* May 7-9, 2024. Check it out! science.jpl.nasa.gov/workshops/uv/

My first PhD paper on 'The occurrence of small, short-period planets younger than 200 Myr with TESS' has been accepted to AJ and is now available on arXiv! I'll also be presenting a poster on the paper at #ExSSV (607.02)!

arxiv.org/abs/2403.03261