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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 13/04/2026

Super excited for @balmer.bsky.social to be joining us this fall! Welcome to the @heisingsimonsfdn.bsky.social 51 peg b family!

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 17/02/2026

Great paper summary from Dino on his recent paper that giant planets spin faster than brown dwarfs!

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 30/01/2026

The application deadline for the 2026 Code/Astro workshop is in a couple of days. Open to anyone interested in learning how to develop open-source software for astronomy! Both in-person and virtual options available. Apply here: semaphorep.github.io/codeastro/

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Program Description

A Software Engineering Workshop for Astronomy

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 23/12/2025

On the first day of Christmas, numpy gave to me, release of v2.4 that breaks my continuous integration builds.

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 19/12/2025

The Fomalhaut system continues to deliver unexpected surprises!

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 12/12/2025

New orbit movie just dropped. This one is for the newly discovered circumbinary planet HD 143811 AB b. This 9-year timelapse was made through an international collaboration with me, Nathalie Jones (Northwestern graduate student), and Vito Squicciarini (Exeter postdoc)

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 25/08/2025

Does anyone else see Van Leeuwen merchandise (from the ice cream brand) and think why there's merch for the Hipparcos astrometry catalog?

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 29/07/2025

I'm apparently experiencing an adrenaline rush from a grad student in my group giving a talk at a conference I'm not even at?

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 29/07/2025

Not at #HWO25 but had to watch the Youtube stream to see the coolest version of the HR 8799 orbit movie from @bmacastro.bsky.social

A screenshot of the movie of the 4 planets orbiting HR 8799, but this time they have tails due to some video bug.

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 11/07/2025

Every time I blink, Roman gets even closer to launch!

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 11/07/2025

The 51 Peg b postdoctoral fellowship is out and Northwestern is one of the possible host institutions. Come join us! More information about the range of planetary astronomy research and other opportunities (like PI of Keck proposals) here: ciera.northwestern.edu/opportunitie....

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51 Pegasi b Fellowship at Northwestern

Northwestern University is excited to be a host institution for the Heising-Simons Foundation’s 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. Fellows can collaborate on planetary astronomy research and can benefit from aff...

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 27/06/2025

Help us decide how to allocate ~2200 hours of Roman Space Telescope time! The Roman Coronagraph team is soliciting white papers to get community input on how to use our observing time (reminder, there is no GO call for the Coronagraph). If you need more details about the Roman Coronagraph.. (1/2)

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 12/06/2025

We're looking to hire a director of operations for CIERA! Consider applying if you're interested in a position in astronomy where you enable others to do research.

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 07/06/2025

Loading up webbpsf to get the inside scoop

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

*speechless horror* (Guys the NASA Exoplanet Archive is in this box. My job is in this box.)

Screenshot of the president's budget showing that the Exoplanet Exploration budget would reduce from $54.4M to $3.3M.

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 30/05/2025

Just coming down from the adrenaline rush of participating in the public comment period of my town's board meeting.

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AstroMonnier @astromonnier.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Postdoc job Ad! Want to apply the latest technologies in laser combs and high-speed detector arrays for pushing heterodyne interferometry? Come to Ann Arbor to work with Prof Cundiff and me! Please repost this to help spread the word. Best to apply by Mar 31: apply.interfolio.com/162289

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 21/02/2025

AAS has a helpful page for contacting your congresspeople on the status of astronomy funding in the US: aas.org/advocacy/get...

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Action Alert 2025 | American Astronomical Society

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Jonathan Fortney @jjfplanet.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The 7th annual Other Worlds Laboratory (OWL) Exoplanet Summer Program is now accepting applications for our 3-week workshop in late July 2025. We seek to foster collaborations in exoplanet science with this workshop on the UC Santa Cruz campus. Applications are due March 15: owl.ucsc.edu/summer/

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Summer 2025

The Other Worlds Laboratory (OWL) at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) will soon be accepting applications for the seventh annual Exoplanet Summer Program (ESP), from July 14 – …

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 18/02/2025

Very excited to share that I was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow! Really thankful to all my mentors, colleagues, collaborators, and my amazing research group. Wouldn't have been possible with all of them!

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CIERA @nuciera.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

A cosmic love story? In a new study, CIERA graduate student Fulya Kıroğlu discovers that binary black holes formed in crowded star clusters align their spins - in a seemingly choreographed dance - before merging. Learn more: bit.ly/cieravalentine 📹: Jamie Lombardi / Allegheny College

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Ava Polzin @avapolzin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Our second Picture an Astronomer public lecture -- in person (Chicago) and online Friday! Hear @astrokatie.com talk about the end of the Universe! More information + registration at pictureanastronomer.github.io/lectures/ 🔭🧪👩‍🔬

Flyer for Katie Mack's Picture an Astronomer public lecture -- February 7 in Chicago and online.

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 28/01/2025

Final week to apply for the Code/Astro workshop! Come learn about open-source software development in Python.

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Ava Polzin @avapolzin.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Our Picture an Astronomer series starts in just over a week! Free to attend (in person in Chicago and online) and an incredible opportunity to engage directly with the scientists behind cutting edge astrophysics research. More info (including registration) at pictureanastronomer.github.io 🔭🧪👩‍🔬

Flyer for the Picture an Astronomer public events — all on the University of Chicago campus (unless stated otherwise) and online.

Jan. 30 — kick-off celebration featuring lectures from Chicago astronomers, bingo (with prizes), and a free book for in-person attendees
Feb. 3 — public lecture by Dara Norman, president of the American Astronomical Society
Feb. 7 — public lecture by Katie Mack, author of “The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking”
Feb. 19 — public lecture by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell at the Adler Planetarium
Feb. 25 — public lecture by Anna Frebel, author of “Searching for the Oldest Stars: Ancient Relics from the Early Universe”

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 14/01/2025

The Roman Coronagraph team is soliciting input on what to do with 2200 hours on the highest contrast coronagraph ever flown! There is no open-time program, so fill out this survey on the technology demonstration and science that you think would be most interesting! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Roman Coronagraph Community Interest Survey

Context: The Coronagraph Instrument onboard the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (scheduled to launch no later than May 2027) will enable an in-space technology demonstration of a high-contrast coron...

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 07/01/2025

Excited to share our interdisciplinary work on developing new methods to subtract off the glare of the star to reveal fainter exoplanets. We show in simulation that we can build a full optical model of JWST/NIRCam and generate images of the star to subtract off and reveal faint planets (1/3)

A series of images showing our new algorithm to detect planets compared to a standard KLIP algorithm. The images show that our new method enables a boost in SNR.

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 04/01/2025

Want to learn how to make your astronomy code open source? The Code/Astro workshop is happening this Aug 4-8th at Northwestern! We typically get a strong demand so we ask those interested to fill out an application by Feb 1st. See Sarah's post below for details.

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 26/12/2024

Duolingo is having me speak sentences about how parents-in-law tell bad jokes, while I'm at the in-laws.....

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 22/12/2024

I actually followed through on a new year's resolution!

A Duolingo 365 day learning street with a very bright owl

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Black In Astro @blackinastro.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Black In Astro and @aascsma.bsky.social are hosting a free networking dinner on January 15, 2025, from 6-9pm at the 245th @aasoffice.bsky.social meeting in National Harbor, MD! Please express interest in attending by Dec 30 by using the QR code! 🔭🪐☄️. Link 🔗: forms.gle/ged5tKkYYTVS...

Poster that says "Black in Astro and CSMA Networking Dinner, January 15, 2025, 6-9pm Eastern. 245th American Astronomical Society (AAS) Meeting, National Harbor, MD. A space for Black in Astro and CSMA members and interested allies to meet and network. Express your interest by December 30. Open to all attendees of the 245th AAS conference". Includes a QR code that links to the form to express interest in attending.

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Dino Chih-Chun Hsu @chihchunhsu.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Northwestern press and Nature Astronomy research highlights nicely summarize our new paper on a baby planet’s atmosphere news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Young exoplanet’s atmosphere unexpectedly differs from its birthplace

New study shows planet formation might be more complicated than previously thought

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Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Hey folks! Just popping in to announce that the full recording of the 2024 Code/Astro workshop is up on youtube. Playlist here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Code/Astro is a week-long software development workshop for astronomers. More info about the workshop here: semaphorep.github.io/codeastro/

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Code/Astro 2024 - YouTube

Hello world! This is the full recording of the 2024 Code/Astro workshop. Here are some useful resources: Workshop website: https://semaphorep.github.io/codea...

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🔭🧪 Things that make me happy: This is the first image from Mars, taken July 1965. Why does it look like this? Because computers were slow and it was going to be hours before the computer processed it enough to make an image. The scientists and engineers were impatient. 1/5

Shades of brown and red colored in on top of strips of paper on a bulletin board. It's a fairly large board, though you can't really tell that from the photo! The lower right is dark and the upper left is brighter.

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Ava Polzin @avapolzin.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

You can learn about this discovery directly from Jocelyn Bell Burnell during one of our Picture an Astronomer events! More information at pictureanastronomer.github.io, including registration (in person and remote). For astrophysicists, come to our symposium, too -- all genders welcome! 🔭🧪👩‍🔬

Flyer for the Picture an Astronomer events, which have in person and remote attendance options. More details, including registration, at pictureanastronomer.github.io.

January 30 - Kick-off event
February 3 - Dara Norman Public Lecture
February 7 - Katie Mack Public Lecture
February 19 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell Public Lecture
February 25 - Anna Frebel Public Lecture
March 4 - 6 - Symposium

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 27/11/2024

I may have been thinking too much about optics recently because the first thing I thought of when I saw these truck lights is GMT pupil.

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 26/11/2024

NASA is soliciting additional funded teams to join the Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Participation Program. Help us demonstrate the technology to image habitable worlds in space! Happy to chat with anyone that's curious about getting involved. nspires.nasaprs.com/external/sol...

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NSPIRES - Solicitations Summary

NASA and U.S. Government policies address research and personal misconduct, and provide avenues for reporting potential violations.

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 25/11/2024

Check out our new paper on the first system where we can measure the C/O ratio in both a protoplanet and its disk!

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 23/11/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Exoplanetary scientist: We've detected water in the cup!

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 20/11/2024

Was I not paying attention or did Duolingo just add triple XP boosts? Is this a ploy to make me learn more?

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 18/11/2024

I'm pretty sure I've seen each of these at SPIE this year.

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Dino Chih-Chun Hsu @chihchunhsu.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hello blue sky! Ready to catch up with friends and colleagues here, and share some my new science in the future 😁

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 16/11/2024

Realized I never shared this when I was at OHP: this is the now-retired ELODIE spectrograph that discovered 51 Peg b. You can see the fibers that inject both starlight and calibration lamp light, the echelle grating that dispersed the light, and the detector that captured the spectra.

The hardware of the ELODIE spectrograph, including gratings and detector. The optical path is traced out in the display.

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 15/11/2024

Let's see how the algorithm here likes coronagraphs. Can you see the small black dot at the center of this optic? (you might need to zoom in) That is used to occult the light of a star to see planets around it.

A golden reflective optic with a small dot in the center that is used to occult the star. The optic is in a display case

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 09/11/2024

In addition, I hear there's a really interesting episode on exoplanets this year

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 24/09/2024

I had the opportunity to make a pilgrimage to the Observatoire de Haute-Provence and see both the telescope and the spectrograph that discovered 51 Peg b. Super cool and awesome that the telescope is still detecting new exoplanets!

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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 09/07/2024

Northwestern is now a host institution for the 51 Pegasi b fellowship. Applications are due October 4. Happy to chat about the fellowship and/or opportunities here at Northwestern! www.hsfoundation.org/programs/sci...

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Guidelines and Application - Heising-Simons Foundation

The fellowship provides an opportunity for recent doctoral scientists to develop innovative instrumentation or to conduct novel theoretical and observational research in planetary astronomy. Planetary...

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