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Astronomer, astrophysicist, professor. He/him.

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Eric Agol
4 years
The TRAPPIST-1 planets now have the best measurements of any set of terrestrial planets other than our Solar System. and they look different than our terrestrial planets. With Caroline Dorn @Nonomamades @ElsaDucrot @LaetitiaDelrez Michaël Gillon @AbVsm @brettmor @fselsis +++.
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ARCHIVED NASA Exoplanets
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The TRAPPIST-1 star is home to the largest batch of roughly Earth-size planets ever found. Now we know even more about the densities of these seven rocky worlds. And the composition of the TRAPPIST-1 planets could be notably different than Earth's!
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RT @LIGO: The discovery of #GW231123 was announced today to scientists at the #GR24Amaldi16 meeting with talks by Amanda Farah and Sophie B….
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RT @UW: The largest digital camera ever is snapping ultra-HD shots of space — and Huskies made it possible! UW helped build the new Rubin O….
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RT @Michael59607421: Incredible honor for our SPECULOOS project to welcome Their Majesties the King and Queen of Belgium at our Chilean obs….
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Dr. Vera Rubin is the first Astronomer to be featured on a US Coin. Rubin is also the namesake of the new Rubin Observatory in Chile, honored for her discovery of evidence of dark matter in galaxies.
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A large gas giant exoplanet eclipsing small M dwarf star makes for *very* deep transits ~17% depth [1] Also interesting is that a second example has just been found with a 12% transit depth!
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RT @NASAWebb: A never-before-seen planet! 🪐. This is Webb’s first discovery of a planet using direct imaging. With a mass similar to Saturn….
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RT @mjuric: For the astronomers among us, here's the (a, e) plot of the asteroids we reported today, with the dynamical classification. 7 N….
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RT @NSF: In about 10 hours of test observations, NSF-DOE @VRubinObs already discovered 2,104 never-before-seen asteroids in our solar syste….
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RT @mjuric: Rubin First Look livestream: June 23rd, 8am PT --
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RT @mjuric: 🚨 Rubin First Look: a small section of the large map of the Virgo Cluster. Look at the NGC 4410/11 interacting galaxies near th….
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I’m verklimt.
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Apparently I haven’t been properly observing transiting planets…
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RT @scimeetsfiction: This is an uncomfortably accurate analysis of the state of #exoplanet science today:
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RT @djulik: Watch the #AAS246 Press Conference where @astrobalmer presented this thrilling result: THE NEW(even if expected from astromet….
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RT @jjfplanet: 17% transit depth! A Saturn-size transiting exoplanet around a small 0.2 M_Sun star:..
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RT @NatureAstronomy: A 10 M⨁ planet is detected in the habitable zone (HZ) of the solar-type star Kepler-725 using the transit timing varia….
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RT @david_kipping: “we estimate that ~25 more MIRI transits would be needed for a 3-sigma rejection of a flat line relative to DMS/DMDS fea….
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Landing page for Wikipedia (english) today features a planet system we announced in 2017.
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RT @miquai: One week ago, I saw this post by @AAS_Office, and I decided to put pen to paper. Here's the result: a call to support one of t….
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Nice visualization of the black hole binary mergers detected (as of 2018; now there are of order 300 detections):
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“I am most proud of is the LIGO-Virgo Binary-Black-Hole Orrery. I felt like I was part of a cool secret because these events were not public at the time, and I was an undergraduate working on a really exciting project” – Teresita Ramirez . #HumansOfLIGO #BlackHoleWeek
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