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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 27/08/2026

NASA and SpaceX are targeting #NASARoman’s liftoff for no earlier than 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, August 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 🎥 Launch coverage begins at 6:20 a.m. 🔭

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NASA Sets Coverage for Roman Space Telescope Launch from Florida - NASA

Coverage plans are ready for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope prelaunch and launch activities. Roman is NASA's next-generation observatory designed to

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 12/05/2026

I probably hadn’t slept enough! 🤣

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Sarah E Moran @offallingstars.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"We do what we can with the universe we've been given" (he was talking about direct imaging of exoplanets, but thta's some pretty profound and wide-ranging wisdom from @juliengirard.space at the BDExoCon meeting today)

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 07/04/2026

So so so deserved, happy for you William @balmer.bsky.social !!

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 07/04/2026

It’s really refreshing nowadays to hear the #artemis2 crew deliver humanist, universally good and sensible words while doing something extraordinary. The cognitive dissonance is real, what humanity can achieve and what humanity can destroy.

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 25/02/2026

AAS President Dara Norman and Past President Kelsey Johnson published an opinion article in SpaceNews today titled "The future of astronomy is both on Earth and in space." The article is signed by 15 past, current, and incoming AAS presidents.

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 23/02/2026

... before, kinda "every 10-ish years thing" but I didn't make it. 4 Months forwards, here it is, my new website is up and I geeked out a bit with github, html, AI... I wanted a single do it all html file and yet something that looked different than the templates almost everyone seemed to use 🙂 🫠 🙃

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 23/02/2026

On October 19 2025 it was my 20th PhD anniversary, believe it or not, I may have well consumed a bit of the second part of my career. I didn't feel like celebrating or posting anything then. Meh, just another year. I had been meaning to update my professional website.... www.juliengirard.space

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Julien H. Girard, astronomer, AURA Scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 13/01/2026

Enrique (lead author) and I met back in 2008 at a school in Mexida, Mexico! We finally have a paper together. Before exoplanets, my plan was to study active galactic nuclei with adaptive optics. 18 years later, I did it from space (unprecedented combination of sensitivity and spatial resolution).

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 13/01/2026

Our "Unprecedented Look Into Heart of Circinus Galaxy", an AGN using JWST/NIRISS Aperture Masking Interferometry (AMI) mode. NASA @stsci.edu Press Release: science.nasa.gov/missions/web... Nature Comm. paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Props to Anand Sivaramakrishnan who did so much for AMI!

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 13/01/2026

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 09/12/2025

Debris disk around TWA 20, a M star, imaged with JWST/NIRCam coronagraph at 2µm! Palatnick et al. 2025 arxiv.org/abs/2510.20216

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 05/12/2025

Very true! We struggle to have more than one each year (too many meetings...) but we have a very large crowd each time and nice venues. The concentration of exoplanet scientists in PA/DE/MD/DC/VA is amazing, similar to California's It's one full Friday, informal, no fee, a amazing platform for ECRs

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 05/12/2025

The CHesapeake bay area EXOplanet Meeting #CHEXO12 has started @jhuapl.bsky.social with a nice and big crowd despite the snow! www.chexo.org #exoplanets

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 12/11/2025

Good news! En hora buena! I know this is probably not the time yet but choosing Tenerife (or even Madrid or Barcelona) for Spanish HQ would be wise, more attractive for scientists, engineers, staff and their families :) No offense for Santa Cruz de La Palma, looks beautiful!!

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 11/11/2025

And on Keswick Rd yet again. I guess it’s wind + dry weather + leaves + restarting furnaces ???

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Kevin Hainline @kevinhainline.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

this is from a paper I'm putting together of a 300 K brown dwarf and it's kind of insane how similar it is

a chart showing the flux from a Y dwarf as a function of wavelength, with a picture of the little brown dwarf in the top right (it looks like a rose), and the 1D and 2D spectra underneath. It rises only at longer wavelengths. It looks a lot like this chocolate price chart.

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 29/10/2025

oops, that's next year for you and I

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Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics @mpe-garching.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

🤩The @4most-eu.bsky.social (#4MOST) facility on @eso.org VISTA telescope in Chile achieved first light. #MPE scientists played a leading role in developing the Operations System, enabling to link #eROSITA’s X-ray universe with large-scale structure of galaxies. ➡️ More: www.mpe.mpg.de/8102833/news...

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4MOST Begins its Journey of Cosmic Discovery

4MOST embarks on a cosmic journey, capturing spectra of thousands of celestial objects simultaneously, unlocking secrets of the universe.

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4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) @4most-eu.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

First Light for 4MOST! The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) has captured its very first spectra! Video Credit: AIP/R. de Jong, AIP/K. Riebe, AIP/A. Saviauk, CRAL/J.-K. Krogager

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First Light for 4MOST!

YouTube video by 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope

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Matthew Kenworthy @mattkenworthy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Two papers announcing the discovery of a directly imaged 6 Jupiter mass planet around binary system HD 143811 AB Squicciarini+ and Jones+ in Sco-Cen - Keck, Gemini and VLT all imaging this companion and confirmed with several years of common proper motion. #astrodon #exoplanet #exosci

Figure from Squicciarini et al. showing three panels with a white dot on a black and blue stippled background, indicating the location of the planet in GPI and SPHERE IRDIS data.&10;

Three panel image from Jones et al. showing a white dot on a stippled background. The planet is in the 11 o'clock position in all three images.

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

JWST successfully observed interstellar object (ISO) 3I/ATLAS. Interesting results. The composition of the coma could be due to a few different scenarios. Additional JWST observations of the object closer to the sun are needed. science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatla...

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NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Observes Interstellar Comet - NASA Science

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Aug. 6, with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument. The research team has been

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 26/08/2025

Amazing!!!! A NEW gap-carving planet! So far, we haven't been able to image many. WISPIT 2b, like PDS 70 b&c is imaged at many wavelengths from 656nm (H⍺, blue here) to 3.7µm (👏MagAO-X @xwcl.science.web.brid.gy). VLT/SPHERE polarized scattered light at 1.6µm+reddish planet at 2.2µm in the gap, wow!

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Next #SETILive: Closest Exoplanet Yet? TODAY, 8 August, 3:15 pm PDT Join astronomers @allplanets.bsky.social and Julien Girard (STScI) as they discuss recent evidence of a Saturn-mass gas giant orbiting Alpha Centauri A—located just 4 light-years away. 🧪 🔭 WATCH LIVE: buff.ly/TplMAD5

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 07/08/2025

Wow, Tonight I just completed 8 years @stsci.edu. I love it 😊 I realize I now have worked there in Baltimore as much as I spent @eso.org in Chile. 16 years as scientist, collectively supporting instruments, operations, maximizing the science return at major observatories, ground and space!

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Kelly Lepo @kellylepo.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The Space Telescope Science Institute's MAST archive contains 300 million astronomical observations from over 23 different missions. Here is an animation showing how the archive has built up over time. Credit: Julie Imig, STScI

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 29/07/2025

Experiencing FOMO big time, not attending #HWO2025) I am glad a lot is youtube broadcasted. I am especially eager to watch these panels sessions on ground/based synergies and on how the #RomanCoronagraph will inform the design choices of the HWO coronagraphs www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vq3...

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 23/07/2025

Who saw this coming? Maybe that should go into the discussion of what @eso.org will do after it's ELT, an ELT-N with a TMT design? I think as a community what we all want is A >25m telescope in the North.

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 23/06/2025

"This is just a small peek" In 9 hours, livestream!

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 10/06/2025

Please watch the @aas.org Press Conference where @balmer.bsky.social presented this thrilling result: THE NEW(even if expected from astrometry)LY IMAGED, COLD (~2ºC), MATURE giant exoplanet 14 Her c with JWST/NIRCam!!! Congrats Daniella, William and the whole team 😀 www.youtube.com/live/Z7niXAH...

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Matthew Kenworthy @mattkenworthy.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Dr. Kielan Hoch has a #Nature paper on #JWST observations of the star YSES 1 with its two gas giant planets. She and her team have discovered a circumplanetary disk around the larger 1b and silicate clouds in 1c. Wonderful results and more to come - watch this space! #exoplanet #astrodon

The two gas giant planets YSES 1b has a circumplanetary disk surrounding a purple coloured visualisation of the gas giant, and a sandy coloured gas giant 1c in the lower right. The star can be seen in the distance. The image is by Ell Bogat at UMD.

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 14/05/2025

Chen Xie, Christine Chen et al., colleagues of our EPSIG group at STScI/JHU just published water ice detections with #HighContrast Near-Infrared (IFU) Spectroscopy with #JWST/NIRSpec!!

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 27/03/2025

Je suis curieux des propositions et mécanismes pour accueillir (attirer?) des chercheurs/scientifiques en France et en Europe. Comment le faire sans revaloriser les chercheurs en France? A 50% du salaire US, je prends! À 25%, non.

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 26/03/2025

I could not help it… (note, the top picture was taken in Jura, France by the weather forecast group a météo franc-comtoise)

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 25/03/2025

We'll be presenting this Coronagraphy JWebbinar with Aarynn Carter and Jonathan Aguilar, register here before March 30 if you're interested. #JWST #Coronagraph www.stsci.edu/jwst/science... under 2025, it's number 40

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JWST Observer @jwstobserver.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

A new series of python-based Jupyter notebooks are now available for all four #JWST instruments and 13 observing modes. Read more: ow.ly/bjZ850VnlG8

Line drawing of JWST on a composite background of the Cosmic Cliffs observed by JWST

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Julien Girard @juliengirard.space · 25/03/2025

Well deserved on bsky as well, congrats!!

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