If I may brag a sec, I climbed a friggin’ mountain today while 19 weeks pregnant! Definitely no speed records set, but worth it for this view...11mo ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I am delighted to announce that I have just accepted a faculty position in the physics department at the University of Oregon. I’m gonna be a professor!!!1yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Astronomer here! Call me crazy, but after all the work and expertise I’ve done for free on this website, it’s pretty ridiculous that this is the message I’ve gotten from Reddit marketing11mo ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Fun times today filming a big documentary in my role as a “black hole expert!”1yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
New little stargazer arriving around Halloween! We can’t wait to meet her!1yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
When a Top Mind of Reddit decides he knows my research better than me3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Visited the VLA yesterday! Finally got a pic I’ve been meaning to get for the longest time :D1yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
It took me over a year, but I *finally* finished my cross stitch of the solar system!!!2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I’ve been quiet lately because of some exciting future plans in the works. Sorry about that- please accept this cat picture until regular service resumes!1yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I gave an invited talk at the invited meeting of the American Physical Society! 🤩1yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
So apparently in my absence my husband has hung cat-level wall art. So sophisticated!1yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Greetings from MIT! Was honored to give the first in-person astro seminar in two years today!2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
The Harvard astronomy library is doing a small art show this summer! Here’s my contribution1yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Today's little discovery: a supermassive black hole in my MeerKAT data launching two edge-on jets of material at relativistic speeds. Not sure exactly how many millions of light years away this is, as it's not in the literature1yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. -Carl Sagan2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Needed some new professional photos. I like how you need one with arms crossed so everyone knows you’re a Serious Scientist! 🧐2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I got a new shirt for when conspiracy theorists annoy me too much 😏2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Found this cute li’l bow tie in my VLA image and thought y’all might like to see it! It’s actually two jets being shot out of a supermassive black hole millions of light years away!1yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
While I try my best to answer messages I get, it turns out I have my limits and if you start your question like this I'm not going to respond to you2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I made a new whiteboard sign at work because getting roped into telescope proposals is becoming a severe occupational hazard. Top is this morning, bottom is just now!1yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
HOW AMAZING IS THIS!!! MeerKAT, the South African radio telescope, took an observation for me last night. EVERY circled object is a previously unknown supermassive black hole beaming relativistic jets into space, millions of light years from us. Thought you guys might like to see it too!3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I tested OpenAI because I have colleagues convinced this means the end of written homework and/or civilization. Hmm...1yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Got a picture in front of space shuttle Atlantis while wearing my space shuttle dress! 🚀2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I’M GOING TO CAPE CANAVERAL TO SEE THE SPACEX CREW 4 LAUNCH TO THE ISS!!!2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I just submitted my *12th* proposal for telescope time as lead investigator in 9 months, and have reached the mindset where I really just want to include this with each one2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Greetings from Pittsburgh! Excited to be in my hometown for the first conference of my postdoc career!2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
For whoever was complaining here that my sub doesn't have enough cat pictures, I present you with this tacocat!2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I got a lot of wonderful messages on my phosphine on Venus post, but this one really melted my heart. I'm not crying, you're crying3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
My PhD defense is tomorrow morning, and I wanted to share this part of the acknowledgements before I forget. During the darkest times of my PhD when no one believed in me, talking astronomy on Reddit meant so much. Thank you all. <34yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I just got 25 hours of VLA time to look for radio emission from exoplanets!!! Naturally caused emission, sure, but it’s all part of my long con of 20 years to be Ellie Arroway when I grow up2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Greetings from snowy Minneapolis! I’m at the spring meeting of the American Physical Society, and think I’ve just gotten my best piece of conference swag ever1yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Just got some new observations from the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa, and thought you'd like to see this. EVERY circled source is a supermassive black hole, millions of light years away...2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
The MeerKAT radio telescope took an observation today for me! The dots in this image are not stars at all- every one is a supermassive black hole, millions of light years away. Space is awesome!2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
After a wonderful (pandemic delayed) wedding reception, off on the honeymoon!2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I’m starting my 3rd year as a postdoc next week, but it’s my *first* time traveling for work! Heading to Cleveland to give a colloquium talk at Case Western Reserve University2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Today is my first day as a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics! :D4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
My husband updated a wedding present that was rendered obsolete a few weeks ago 🥰4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Ok, I have to show my newest discovery off! This is the radio emission captured by the VLA that is the last gasp of a star as it was ripped apart by a supermassive black hole. Thought you all would like to see it too!2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Holy cow! Another MeerKAT observation, and this was *incidentally* in the observation field of view. Two bright radio galaxies shooting out relativistic jets, hundreds of millions of light years away...3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
JOCELYN BELL BURNELL CAME TO MY OFFICE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT MY SCIENCE AND THEN I GAVE HER AN EMBROIDERED PLOT PROFILE OF THE FIRST PULSAR SHE DISCOVERED!!4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I’m reviewing some science proposals to use the National Radio Astronomy Observatory today (including the VLA). Decided to do it in some pretty surroundings!2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I can totally stick this in the empty awards section on my academic CV, right? :)2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I got frustrated that there were no good articles for the public about black holes shredding stars, so wrote one myself! It's in the Dec 2021 issue of Astronomy magazine, available electronically or from something called a newsstand!2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Today I climbed Mt Moosilauke, the 10th highest peak in New Hampshire. My highest solo hike so far!3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I think this project is titled “when your cross stitch wasn’t geeky enough...”3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Waited four months for a referee report from the journal for my paper on Type Ia supernovae. Referee report was the shortest ever, and after literally editing a figure caption and one sentence it was accepted by the journal!4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Happened this weekend. I am truly touched that so many of you are interested in what I have to say. Thank you so much!4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Fall vs spring semester at my place of employment, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. I miss working here :(4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Astro self-care: whenever I've had a tough day lately, I pause to pan around my MeerKAT observations a bit. EVERY dot and squiggle here is a supermassive black hole, millions of light years away. My problems never seem quite so big after taking a good look!3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Went into my office for the first time since March to grab a few things. The most vibrant place in astronomy in the known universe is now quiet enough for the scene of a good ghost story4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I'm pretty happy because I found a new radio observation of a black hole that ate a star in VLA survey data today! Image on left taken Oct 7, 2017, and on the right the same object on Aug 4, 2020. It faded in brightness between observations by a factor of 4.3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
They’re getting close! Jupiter and Saturn to the left of the Great Refractor dome at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
We just brought these two home from the shelter! Anyone have naming suggestions for two sisters? Astro names encouraged but not required :)3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Anyone interested in what raw astronomy data REALLY looks like? This is an observation I'm working on from Chandra X-ray Observatory right now. Orange dots represent ONE photon, yellow is ~2-15, green circle is at my area of interest. I find it wild that in X-ray you count individual photons!4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Finally figured out how to sneak onto the institute roof today during my break!3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
TFW you find a beautiful little galaxy in your radio data! :D NGC 3310 is a starburst galaxy ~60 million light years from us, meaning star formation is happening everywhere. These regions light up in radio, so you can see the entire galaxy3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Fun fact, I noticed the VLA is observing for me RIGHT NOW! Here’s what it looks like on the webcam!7mo ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
My first pandemic research talk (and first talk on my new research as a postdoc) is happening in a bit! Wearing my VLA earrings for good luck!4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I've made a plot of everything I've looked at in the sky so far as a professional astronomer!3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I'm sure they sent this to everyone who applied, but at least I can say I got an email from NASA about my astronaut candidacy!3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I started a new stitching project this weekend and it’s really taking off!!! 🤩🚀4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
TFW you wake up at 4:45am for what’s basically a weird sunrise, and you’re thwarted by the one cloud in the area3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Today is my Hungarian name day (like a saint’s day). The traditional gift are flowers but I think we can all agree my husband thought of a more unique one 🤩4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Ok guys, just found this. This quarantine got WAY more interesting!4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Got some work done at the Widener Library at Harvard. Normally I don’t work on this side of campus, but if I’m lucky enough to have access to the biggest private library in the world, I’m determined to use it.4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I posted this a year ago but it’s so cool I’m doing so again for those who missed it. Figure 1 from my paper on Supernova 1987A showing its evolution in radio from 1991-2017... in cross stitch!4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Wow. I have been to over 60 countries but there is still nowhere on Earth quite like autumn in New England!3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
So one of our pandemic hobbies is checking out covered bridges, because no one else is ever there. And today we found a COVERED RAILROAD BRIDGE! 😍🚂4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Thank you all for the kind words over recent days! :) Just wanted to share the English doctoral certificate I’ve received as I thought it was great. “Our ancestors, in their wisdom...”4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Stumbled across the first commercially available calculator, used by Harvard astronomers at the turn of the last century. “The Millionaire” debuted in 1899, and could multiply two eight digit numbers in under ten seconds.4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Finished the LEGO ISS and then went outside to watch the real one overhead to celebrate!4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Might not look like much, but today I worked with optical data for the first time! 🔭🤩3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Today begins the meeting of the American Astronomical Society, the biggest astronomy conference of the year! Sad it's not in person, of course, but I gotta say I do appreciate taking advantage of decorating your virtual booth with your radio telescope or observatory3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
By the way, if you were wondering why we were in Puerto Rico... :)5yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Checking into the (virtual) summer American Astronomical Society meeting today. I admit while the interface is cool, I *really* look forward to in person meetings again!3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Nothing to do with astronomy, but I made a new bookmark for all my quarantine reads! Left vs right is to show what a difference the backstitching makes4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Today/tomorrow I'm attending a workshop on how to deal w mega-constellation satellites and astronomy. It's organized by the friggin' UN, and I had to apply, and when I realized I was actually qualified I just about fell out of my chair3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Leaving my office today after packing up the monitors and non-cacti plants to head home for the duration. I know it’s not a goodbye, just a so long for now, but still feel sad today and know I will miss it. :(4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Full house tonight at Astronomy on Tap Boston for my talk about supernovae and if Betelgeuse will become one soon (for those who didn’t go: probably not)4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
In the Netherlands, it's standard for a PhD thesis to have 10 propositions, or statements you learned during your PhD that you're defending. They start scientific, and get more broad as you go along. I'm pretty happy that I got the last one approved!4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
My former supervisor was a bully who tried his best to kick me out of astronomy, and censored my research. I have now finished the probationary period proving I'm a competent scientist to be a thesis candidate at a second university. I get to keep being an astronomer! :D6yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
TFW the local library is so excited about your talk next month that they make a little display about it 😊5yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
When writing a paper draft I often put filler in sections w nothing yet. I wish I could submit my paper with this conclusion though! (This object was the first discovered event of a black hole tearing apart a star.)4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I mean, I’m sure you all subscribe to Cross Stitch Crazy, but just in case your magazine got lost in the mail check out this page of the December issue!4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I need to get a few dozen copies of my thesis printed for my PhD ceremony. I think it’s a pretty archaic tradition but I’ll be damned if the title page doesn’t look cool4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
I’m corresponding with a ten year old who had an astronomy question. Based on how the envelope looks after I addressed it to him I’m not sure which of us is having more fun out of this!4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Bought this for my baby. It feels like the most controversial title possible for a board book library4mo ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
My work from home office for the next few weeks! Already finished a proposal draft, so guess I’ve found a funny kind of normal4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Found an extended radio source in my data set of galaxies far, far away that is likely a black hole spewing out two giant lobes, and thought you guys would like to see it5yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
One of my pet peeves is when I come across astronomy that is WRONG on Reddit that no one corrects, and I show up too late to explain why to most viewers. I’m going to take a soapbox this time to explain why this gif is cool, but the interpretation is incorrect.5yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Mildly interesting- I found an old moon globe in the astronomy library with a still-uncharted far side4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
This is SOFIA, a NASA infrared telescope that takes data out of the side of an old Boeing 747. It flies out of Christchurch, NZ in winter here to and sometimes past the Antarctic Circle, OH AND JUST CONFIRMED I’M FLYING ON IT FRIDAY NIGHT!!! :D5yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Nothing to do with astronomy, just I made this for my boyfriend who has a thing for otters and I wanted to share it5yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Saw an ancient astronomical observatory yesterday! Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico was used by the ancient Puebloan people to track the motions of the sun and stars a thousand years ago, evidenced by petroglyphs found on top.4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Weekend project: I traced out all the routes I’ve ever gone on in North America in black marker4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
My dissertation talk at the American Astronomical Society went well! So guess I should finish writing my PhD thesis...5yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Working on a piece about my flight on SOFIA last June, the world's only flying observatory. Here's me chatting to the telescope operators at 43,000 feet above the Antarctic Circle- the telescope to the right. Still can't believe I was lucky enough to go on this adventure!4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Moon, Venus, Jupiter, sailboat, and dolphin. Happy Thanksgiving from south Florida!4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Today at work I’m putting the final touches on VLA proposals due this weekend! The most annoying part of this process is getting super excited about the science I want to do, then realizing it can be over a year until I get the data. :(4yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts! For some reason I’m thinking today about how many scholars of all fields have done this move over the centuries, and how cool it is to say today is our turn :)5yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
HIFW I get confirmed to present my research at the Harvard astrophysics high energy seminar this fall6yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
Sorry for those tired of my post-PhD trip posts, but Milford Sound, New Zealand was too beautiful today to not share5yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
In the middle of the Earth, in the land of the Shire, lives a brave little hobbit whom we all admire!5yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
It turns out when you visit George Washington University Physics you get to use George Gamow’s desk where he formulated the Big Bang theory!5yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Andromeda321
