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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Guess I need to change my handle on here. I got married two weeks ago, and I took my partner's last name instead of them taking mine. I'm now Doug Lewin :)

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This is probably the weirdest light curve out of the set of over 600 stars I've looked at for this class. 🔭

Lightcurve of TIC 65203528 showing lots of oscillations within oscillations within oscillations

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Surprised my love @katlikespie.bsky.social last night with a screening of arguably the greatest love story ever told, The Princess Bride. The movie was followed by a Q&A with Cary Elwes, and included signed copies of his book.

Kat and I recreating the lean on forehead still from The Princess Bride poster, which is shown in the background.

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Truly important question here... What do you listen to while working on your #Astronomy research/paper reading/paper writing? I saw someone recommend the Interstellar soundtrack (wrote her PhD dissertation to it), but I'm looking for other options.

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Did you know that different regions of the sun rotate at different rates? The sun is not a solid object, so rotation speeds can and do vary with latitude. The sun rotates once every ~24 days at the equator, and once every ~30 days at the poles! #SpaceFacts 🔭 www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

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Solar Rotation Varies by Latitude - NASA

The Sun rotates on its axis once in about 27 days. This rotation was first detected by observing the motion of sunspots.

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Final approach into Boston Logan airport. Not sure exactly where we are, couldn’t find it on the map.

Photo from an airplane showing ice covered islands and town below.

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Did you know all 4 outer solar system planets have rings, not just Saturn? Jupiter‘s rings are divided into 4 sections, Uranus has 13 known rings, and Neptune has 5! 🔭#SpaceFacts www.planetary.org/articles/rin...

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Your guide to rings of the Solar System

Tour the rings of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, plus asteroids, a dwarf planet, and an exoplanet.

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Sitting at the airport waiting for my connecting flight home, and taking advantage of the downtime to do some stellar light curve classification for my Research class. 🔭

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Nichelle Nichols was an amazing woman! Glad my daughter and I got to meet her once!

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I guess they know their audience… I was amused, even though it means I can’t find the paper I want. 🔭

Error message from ADS stating that the server response times are redshifted

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

When your professor asks you to create a plot for stellar Teff vs. Mv, and that's too easy, you do it in Python and learn a bit about MatPlotLib :)

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Never mind jobs you had, tell me classes you took in college: 1) Habitable Worlds (why I fell in love with exoplanets) 2) Research Skills in Astronomy 3) Gender, Race, & Sex in Sci Fi 4) Welcome to the Future 5) Principles of Programming

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Reading (and thoroughly enjoying) “The Possibility of Life” by Jaime Green, and who should appear as a source? @aussiastronomer.bsky.social talking about the #exoplanet archive at JPL and working with creatives to entice readers to read about the new discoveries.

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Proud to be working with @emily.space on this amazing community! Congrats to Emily and the rest of the dedicated team working behind the scenes to bring you the AstroSky Ecosystem! 🔭

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🔭 Adding to astronomy feed of the AstroSky Ecosystem (astrosky.eco)

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

#exoplanets Use of the Saturn emoji no longer posts to the exoplanets subfeed.

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The spring semester has started! Really looking forward to my research skills class at ASU!

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Kevin Hardegree-Ullman @kevinkhu.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

✨ New NASA #Exoplanet Archive Tutorial Video! ✨ This one highlights the differences between the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables. Take note of the strong warning NOT to use these tables directly for population or exoplanet demographic studies! youtu.be/MsUev8aMPKg

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Which Planetary Systems Table Should You Use?

YouTube video by NASA Exoplanet Archive

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Really cool gift I got for Christmas. Lit orb with the solar system etched in the glass. 🔭

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

A holiday gift for #exoplanets Chrome users: how to set up the coolest exoplanet shortcut ever. Click the three-dot menu in the upper right -> Settings -> Search Engine -> Manage search engines and site search. Scroll to site search and click Add. Fill like this and save: (1/2)

A screenshot of the Edit site search widget showing the following entries:
Name: Exoplanet Archive
Shortcut: exoplanet
URL with %s in place of query: https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/overview/%s

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Interview by @earthskyscience.bsky.social with the lead author Melissa McClure at Leiden University in the Netherlands on their amazing discovery of the very early stages of solar system and planet formation inside a pro-planetary disk around HOPS-351. #exoplanets 🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1za...

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BREAKING! Astronomers Witness The Dawn Of A New Solar System. With Melissa McClure

YouTube video by EarthSky

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This is ALL on Murkowski now! She ALONE could have stopped this! CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES - TELL THEM THIS IS A DISASTER AND THEY NEED TO VOTE NO! www.newsweek.com/big-beautifu...

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Republican Senator tells House not to vote on bill she just voted for

Sen. Lisa Murkowski backs Trump's megabill but urges House to return it for fixes, citing Medicaid cuts and tax impacts on Alaska.

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⭐️ RAVEN @sunnydaze27.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Lego art 🍳 😄

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Guess who just discovered that Zotero integrates nicely with Google Docs? This will make my English Composition class much simpler!

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Had to cringe at trivia tonight. The emcee asked what constellation was on the Alaska state flag :( 🔭

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Another thing Trump and the GOP are destroying: our first ever legitimate chance to detect life beyond Earth. Great article at SciAm: www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum... 🔭🧪

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It’s Not Too Late to Save NASA’s Imperiled Search for Alien Life, but the Clock Is Ticking

NASA’s astrobiology ambitions are at risk of collapsing under the White House’s proposed budget. But your voice can make a difference

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

In other news, the oriole and hummingbird feeders have been hung at the house in New Hampshire. Likely a bit early, but at least we will be the chosen stop when they come through! @katlikespie.bsky.social

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Have to write a how-to for the BlueSky #astronomy feed team to get some stuff set up locally, so why not take this opportunity to teach myself LaTeX?

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

France is joining Australia (and I’m sure many others - haven’t seen actual reporting) in openly recruiting American scientists, many from our TOP institutions. #science www.rfi.fr/en/internati...

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First US 'refugee scientists' to arrive in France in weeks, university says

The first researchers fleeing US spending cuts imposed by President Donald Trump are to start work at a French university in June.

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

More #citizenscience for #exoplanet research! This is a light curve of Kepler 17-b analyzed using data from the NASA Exoplanet Watch program, and the EXOTIC computer program to analyze about 85 images from 2006-12-08.

A light-curve plot showing a slight dip in the amount of flux (light) coming from Kepler-17 as viewed from Earth as the probably exoplanet Kepler-17b transitted the face of the star. The size of the dip shows the planet is about 2.3% the radius of the star.

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

🔭 This deeply saddens me as an aspiring astrophysicist.

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

@drbecky.bsky.social once again does a fantastic job explaining why the reported observation of DMS in the atmosphere of K2-18b is NOT the sign of alien life the media is making it out to be. #astronomy www.youtube.com/shorts/zPYHP...

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Did JWST find LIFE on the exoplanet K2-18b?! #science #astrophysics #astronomy

YouTube video by Dr. Becky

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Douglas Lewin 🔭 @dhilton.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

#exoplanets - the planet emoji has been deprecated from the Astronomy feed...

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