Matthew Kenworthy / is on Nostr

Associate professor at Leiden Observatory taking photos of planets around other stars and seeing the shadows of rings around other worlds.

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2024-08-30 10:39:38

With astronomy job season approaching, if you’re a PhD or early postdoc, PLEASE make a webpage and put your current contact details on it, so that searching for “< your name > astronomer” finds you first - more explanation how and why here: Unsolicited Advice #astrodon 🔭🪐 https://kenworthy.space/advice/

2024-08-14 12:37:39

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...and to whet your appetite, here's an animation of the rings moving in front of #ASASSN-21js - go read the paper!
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2024-08-14 12:28:51

ASASSN-21js: A multi-year transit of a ringed disc: https://kenworthy.micro.blog/2024/08/14/asassnjs-a-multiyear.html

2024-08-13 00:39:02

Aurora seen over #Leiden right now… you can see a red glow with your night adjusted eyes but the camera phone easily picks it up along with some green structure too. #astrodon
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2024-07-29 18:04:30

I am sensitive to optical aberrations.: https://kenworthy.micro.blog/2024/07/29/i-am-sensitive.html

2024-07-12 10:18:40

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@npub1knz…c73p oh wow, I would be delighted if you find a use for them, I'm flattered! A credit sounds wonderful, thank you :)

2024-07-12 09:49:21

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@npub1knz…c73p Spell the words out on a Game of Life board and show the next few frames.

2024-05-16 06:55:07

One of this morning’s posts on #arxiv had quite a sobering lede: ☀️☠️ #astrodon
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2024-05-06 14:41:36

Student paper day! Kleisioti+ on “Direct detectability of tidally heated exomoons by photometric orbital modulation” where she shows that a tidally locked #exomoon with a volcano can be detected with #JWST and two IR bands, even if it’s NOT transiting its parent exoplanet 🔭🪐 #astrodon https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01970
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2024-05-04 10:13:29

In my astronomy career I have had my foot run over by Stephen Hawking, had Neil deGrasse Tyson come to my seminar and promptly fall asleep, and stood in an elevator with Roger Penrose where he was wearing exactly the same clothing as the publicity poster on the elevator wall behind his shoulder.
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2024-03-16 00:54:52

Secretly delighted that someone has a far worse taste in designing water fountains than I do #ExSSV
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2024-01-04 21:32:24

Collaborator Ernst de Mooij brought a 3D printout of the data we are analyzing in our latest research paper, a fantastic and very tactile gift! Any guesses as to what the data represents, and which star we're looking at? 🔭🪐Hint: it's not pulsar data! #astrodon #3dprinting
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2023-12-08 09:27:13

The best time to learn #emacs and #orgmode is ten years ago. The second best time is today. I use #orgmode as my calendar and organiser, and each year I discover something more awesome in it. I didn't realise how good the exporter is and how well formed the HTML is, so now I'll keep my notes on astronomy literature in a new org file. Future proofing through flat text files FTW.

2023-08-21 08:10:30

The most surprising fact I learned from #Oppenheimer is that if you have a crying toddler you can just GIVE THEM to a fellow academic for several months at a time. Absolute game changer!