New article dropping today on a very important and timely topic — the potential planetary system of Zeta² Reticuli, and what it might mean for planetary security #exoplanets 🔭
The food was just ok at best but I had so much fun
totally worth it
I've been traveling for 19 hours and I woke up at 3am with barely any sleep, so the food in this conference better be good 😭
Yeah it's very effective self-marketing, and most people add pages about themselves, outreach and so on.
I'm having some kind of confirmation bias where I only see astronomers do this, tho
I meant investing time and effort, but thank you!! I'm meddling with github.io domains :D
Why is it so common for astronomers to have personal websites? I really don't see that happening in other fields
Should I invest in one? 🤔
Fun that the day before I got accepted for a PhD fellowship, the government suddenly decided to merge the (national) funding institution
And the president accepted it yesterday :)
Illustration of a large spherical object that looks like a gas giant planet. The object appears to have bands of tan, orange, and dark red horizontal lines forming patterns similar to those in the atmosphere of Jupiter. The background is filled with thousands of distant stars that form a Milky Way-like band running from left to right. The host star, Alpha Centauri A, appears as a glowing white circle to the upper left of the planet. Further off in the distance above and to the right of the planet is a smaller glowing circle, nearby Alpha Centauri B. The words “Artist’s Concept” are in the lower left corner.
New kid on the block 🪐
Webb has found the strongest evidence yet of a gas giant around Alpha Centauri A!
If confirmed, it would be the nearest planet that orbits in the habitable zone of a sun-like star.
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪
now I'll try to enjoy holidays before starting the PhD and writing the thesis paper
>defended thesis before summer holidays
>got a pretty good grade in both the thesis and the master
>got national funding for the PhD (last one to get it), in a super interesting topic
academic and existential anxiety got a beating, feels good!
I am very happy (and mostly relieved) to announce that I will be doing my PhD in Porto, starting this september :D
It's NIRPS day! Today we are publishing the first results of the new near infrared planet hunter. A high resolution spectrograph with YHJ coverage and capable of measuring radial velocities with a precision better than 1 m/s.
We debut it with the detection (in the NIR) of Proxima b. #exoplanets 🔭
This truly was our Vinland Saga
10/10 manga
Officially a free bird and a master in Astronomy and Astrophysics!!
Master on Astronomy and Astrophysics!!!
As far I understood, it can be English + mother tongue for EU citizens
Thank you Atanas!
In 4 days I will be officially "unemployed" (not studying, not working) and without a clear and linear path for the first time in my life
Scary, but let's see how this goes
Very nice work, congrats! Do you know when the full table with the rotation periods will be online?
I'm studying a (much smaller) sample of M dwarfs so it would be interesting to see if there's any overlap between the two samples :)
I had forgotten how much of a banger Muse is and how much I love their music, and now I am listening to them while doing my thesis defence slides. At the same time they're performing live in Lisbon...
Going to Tartu, Estonia, for a conference in october :D
Eluveitie's new album is amazing
The second generation would be HARPS-N?
Is HARPS-3 expected to be better than ESPRESSO? Interesting work!!
try not to give a nerd acronym name to every piece of code (impossible)
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
country of meritocracy amirite
Portugal in the fkin handball world semifinals!!!!! INTENSE GAME
Wtf
> 1 day team event on planetary sciences at the institute
> theme is astrobiology
> researchers spent 30 minutes of the discussion session discussing if "astrobiology" is the right word for it
instructions not clear just queued a League ranked game
videogames are good for your mental health.
