EVERYONE!!!! MY FIRST FIRST AUTHOR PAPER OUT NOW! Read all about the work I’ve done these past 2 years searching for triple systems unbound by supernovae 💫💫💫💥

arxiv.org/pdf/2404.06540…

The plot that triggered this verbatim comment:

All-time combined spending on NASA, across 65 years of budgets, after adjusting for inflation, is less than the last three years of Pentagon budgets.

All-time combined NASA spending in RY$ is less than 1 year of Pentagon spending.

Flagship NASA space telescope faces a penny-pinching death

In the Presidential FY2025 budget request, Biden called for decommissioning NASA's Chandra: our flagship X-ray telescope.

The reasons given? All untrue.

So here's what we can do.

bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…

Astronomers are fighting to save the Chandra X-ray Observatory, one of the 'Great Observatories' of the 90s, after NASA budget cuts threaten to bring the telescope to a premature end.

Story by me @SciAm
scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-s…

.Chandra Observatory Director Dr. Pat Slane has posted a statement to the Chandra community related to the demonstrably incorrect statement used to justify Chandra’s catastrophic cuts in the FY25 Request cxc.harvard.edu/cdo/announceme… #SaveChandra

#SaveChandra savechandra.org

NASA’s FY24/25 budget request will close down Chandra Observatory. This would be a devastating blow to astrophysics in the US. 24 years from launch, Chandra is still doing hugely impactful science, adding enormous value to JWST programs and vital in the era of time domain astronomy (1/)

Working on Chandra Observatory proposals due tomorrow amidst the observatory's uncertain future, I feel sad and am looking at beautiful pictures from past work like it is an ailing family member.

Chandra Observatory The narrative that efficiency has fallen is wrong: Chandra Observatory is in great health, the team has been immensely innovative (e.g. the ACA background patch which brought a fountain of youth to the aspect camera), & a thermal solution will buy us a SOLID 8-9 years of operation... 3/

Chandra Observatory Chandra is doing some of its most impactful science, e.g. amazing time domain/multi-messenger astronomy & and synergizing with NASA Webb Telescope. This efficiency is WELL in excess of mission requirements & higher than Hubble on a per orbit basis... 4/

Attention! The FY24 and FY25 Congressional budgets lead to cancellation of Chandra Observatory on a very short timescale & end of X-ray astronomy in the US! I heard they will have to lay off between 50-80 people this year alone! 😲😲 1/

Woo our teams results on the Neutron star in SN1987A are now live. We got this data in the very first week of JWST science operations and have been working on it since then to rule out all other scenarios.

Congratulations to Dr. Tyler Holland-Ashford, my first OSU Astronomy PhD student, who was awarded a NPP Fellowship at NASA Goddard, his top choice! 🥳🔥🤩 #BlackinAstro

Congratulations to CTAC Postdoctoral Fellow Brenna Mockler on being selected as one of three finalists for the American Astronomical Society (AAS) High Energy Astrophysics Division's (HEAD) Dissertation Prize. Mockler will present a talk at the division's meeting in April. head.aas.org/dissertation/d…

I will be starting a tenure-track position at UNSW in Sydney starting in May! I am looking for two PhD students to pursue projects in radio cosmology. More details here: nicholebarry.com

The 2024 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, which is awarded for outstanding achievement in observational astronomical research based on measurements of radiation from an astronomical object, goes to Maria Drout (@uoft). aas.org/grants-and-pri…

For comparison, here was the Hitomi spectrum of N132D just before it lost attitude control (from arxiv.org/pdf/1712.02365…)!! 🤩🤩🤩

I can barely form words today I’m so completely overjoyed. Today my advisors and I as well as our amazing collaborators published a paper in Science Magazine confirming the existence of #strippedstars for the first time.
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Excited that our SIRIUS B book is now up on arXiv!

arxiv.org/abs/2312.04041

Should serve as a primer for students looking to pursue astro professionally. Participants in our 2024 program will get printed copies thanks to the NA-ROAD Women & Girls in Astro mini-grant. 1/

Did you know your phone can act like a military jammer if you don't put it in airplane mode?
Check out my new TED-ED to learn all about it!
youtube.com/watch?v=iKYHf2…