Dr. Jackie Champagne

Advertisement flyer for Space Drafts #103 happening tonight (1/21) at 7:30pm. Left: Picture of Jackie Champagne on top of pictures of the radio telescopes that make up the Event Horizon Telescope. Talk title: "Radio Interferometry: Whose Baseline is it Anyway?" Right: Picture of Meredith Stone on top of a spiral galaxy with a party hat. Talk title: "100 (Standard) Candles: A Century of Extragalactic Astronomy"

Space Drafts #103 is happening tonight (1/21) at 7:30p Tucson time at Borderlands Brewing Downtown and bit.ly/SpaceDrafts103. @whatamergerjr.bsky.social will be pulling back the curtain on radio telescopes and Meredith Stone will give us a crash course on the last century of extragalactic astronomy!

i think i've made it to the big leagues because now i get inundated with requests from students for research opportunities who all insist on calling me dr. champagne... just reminds me of being in their place ten years ago :')

The "No Math, Just Vibes" version of the passage of time for me is:
1984 = 26 yrs ago
1992 = 15 yrs ago
2000 = 10 yrs ago
2008 = 5 yrs ago
2016 = Also 5 yrs ago
2020 = Last Year
2021 = Also Last Year
2022 = The Present
2023 = 1 or 2 years from now
2024 = Next Year
2025 = The distant future

older?! there's another!? (congrats!)

Spider Webbs: Photograph of a lit jack-o'-lantern carved with Webb's characteristic segmented hexagonal mirror pattern overlaid with the shape of a spider. Next to the photograph are two stencils with instructions. One stencil is that used for the carving in the photo. The other stencil has a mirror pattern in the bottom-left that transitions to a spider web pattern in the upper-right.

Need some inspiration for pumpkin carving?
Enjoy these NASA pumpkin carving stencils and activities 🔭🧪🎢

JWST: webb.nasa.gov/content/feat...
More NASA: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13416
NASA Space Place: spaceplace.nasa.gov/pumpkins/en/
JPL: www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/pr...

Powerful black holes might grow up in bustling galactic neighborhoods An astronomer and ‘black hole historian’ explains how the parts of the universe black holes grow in might influence how quickly they become bright, supermassive objects.

My article for @theconversationus.bsky.social is out today! I had a lot of fun explaining protoclusters as little cities 🤓

WHAT IS IT WITH UNDERGRADS AND CROSSING BUSY STREETS WHEREVER THEY WANT agghhhhhhh 😱😱😱😱

Has the field decided if we use this place for self promotion? Idk the new rules man but check out my latest submitted paper 🫠 we think we found the highest-z heavily obscured radio-loud QSO candidate via cosmos-web
arxiv.org/abs/2308.12823

Congrats Wei Leong on an interesting paper!!

I was wondering where y'all went!!! Hello world!