Chandra, the space-based observatory that brings us incredible x-ray images of extreme environments in the cosmos, is at risk of cancellation. It’ll be a huge loss to astronomy if the mission ends early for budget reasons. Go to savechandra.org to help #SaveChandra

NASA recently approved a new space telescope - UVEX - that will map the ultraviolet universe, starting in 2030

Space Sciences Laboratory will manage, Caltech will lead survey of low-mass galaxies around the Milky Way news.berkeley.edu/2024/03/25/uc-… UC Berkeley

We got on astrobites! 😍Thanks Alex Masegian for the very nice article. ✨
astrobites.org/2024/02/28/the…

This feels serendipitous. 7 years ago I took an undergrad course at UCSD with Shelley Wright and Andrey Vayner who encouraged me to go to UofT's instrumentation camp where I met my future advisor. I'm now TAing it in my last semester of grad school! #FullCircle

Please join us in congratulating U of T Arts & Science Professor Maria Drout, who was awarded the 2024 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize by American Astronomical Society (AAS) today! 👏

More about the award & Prof. Drout's research: dunlap.utoronto.ca/maria-drout-aw…

#UofT astronomers discover first population of binary stripped stars 🔭 uoft.me/a1j

Wait - what?!? The Small Magellanic Cloud is actually 'two, superimposed, star-forming systems with similar gas mass separated by ~5 kpc along the line of sight'! Read the paper by Murray et al: arxiv.org/abs/2312.07750 Image: noirlab.edu/public/images/… 🔭

New research published today by astronomers @uoft in Science Magazine confirms the existence of binary stripped stars long thought to be at the heart of hydrogen-poor supernovae and neutron star mergers.

Learn more ow.ly/Oo0c50QiTHu

'The universe only made sense if these stars existed': 25 ultra-rare stars are 'missing link' in supernova science trib.al/T4HO1ha

I'm so excited to see these results! ~6000 1d models with tides + winds + rotation reveal the conditions leading to mergers. A stellar leap in understanding the dynamic lives of stars! 🌟🔭 #BinaryStars #StellarEvolution

My Chandra proposal got accepted today and I literally skipped all the way to my advisor's office 🤩💖👻
Three more stripped stars! 💫

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Martine Lokken on successfully defending her thesis! The second of the #hnauts to defend, Martine did work in two areas, superclustering and transient cosmology. She is moving on to IFAE (Barcelona) UofT D. A. Dunlap Dept of Astronomy & Astrophysics CITA Dunlap Institute

JJ Eldridge tweeted my paper/thesis topic???🤯BRB low-key fangirling✨

I can't get enough of this PhD Comics, special PTA edition!! AHHHH!
Check it out - The Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Detection Explained physics.aps.org/articles/v16/1…
Was great to work with Jorge Cham on this! Fast learner :)

I'm very excited to share my and my collaborator's work analyzing the environments and spectra of a population of super-AGB stars we previously identified. The paper came out on the arXiv Wednesday! arxiv.org/abs/2211.12438 Paper thread below, with a quick recap of Paper I!