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Michele Limon

@michelelimon.bsky.social

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Photons collector, boater, nerd.

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Europe could be a ‘haven’ for US researchers, says ERC (European Research Council) president Maria Leptin #AcademicSky sciencebusiness.net/internationa...

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Europe could be a ‘haven’ for US researchers, says ERC president

The EU’s research funding bodies are thinking of ways to welcome US scientists and European ex-patriots who might be looking for a more sympathetic place to work now that Donald Trump is in the White ...

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

For your consideration: the full SO Large Aperture Telescope arxiv.org/abs/2503.00636

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The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large Aperture Telescope (L...

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Bernardita Ried Guachalla @bernarditaried.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The Fulbright scholarship for US citizens to visit countries like Chile is now open 🇨🇱🌌 There is a specific category for astronomy you can check here: fulbrightscholars.org/award/astron...

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Astronomy and Antarctic Studies | Fulbright Scholar ProgramHome Icon

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Michele Limon @michelelimon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The M1 mirror (primary) being lifted into the Simons Observatory LAT telescope. #cosmology

Large crane lifting mirror into a telescope

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Michele Limon @michelelimon.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

First light? The LAT M1 mirror exposed to the sky for the first time in Chile after opening the shipping box. If the weather cooperates it could be installed in the telescope today. #cosmology @simonsobs.bsky.social

Radiotelescope mirror composed of 77 individual aluminum panels

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Ned Wright @mapping3k.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

WISE is now in a 196x203 km orbit - just below 200 km! It hasn't much more time. The HgCdTe detectors worked great until we stopped observing at the end of July, and all the spacecraft systems were working when we turned off the transmitters on 8 Aug. 'Twas a great robot observatory for 14.7 years.

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