Rebecca Oppenheimer
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Astrophysicist, Writer, Degenerate beccasubstellar.com or rebeccaoppenheimer.com
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Hello people! I'm a professor and curator of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. I study strange new worlds in the solar neighborhood. If you want to learn more about my work:
beccasubstellar.com
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And now for something completely different: For the best time call +1-303-499-7111 it's best to call at the top of the hour, but anytime works.
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One of the best stamps ever from the USPS. Thank you,
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I love stamps and the USPS. Here are two new examples of expedited or same day delivery stamps that feature astrophysics. These I got recently to move physical items swiftly through the mail, and the mail is one of the most fabulous things we have in the US.
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This is a real storm. I love storms. It's the storms, not the harsh Sun, that create life.
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Here is the poster that Paco presented about what it is like to be an astrodog, Chapter IV. He presented it in the front of the room at a conference in Delaware some years ago. The Brown Dwarf-Exoplanet Connection Conference (BDExoCon) at the University of Delaware, Newark, October 2019.
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Here is Paco, guarding PARVI, an instrument my team and I deployed and have now automated to understand what our solar system might look like from ~30 light years away. Paco is gone now, but he had true pride as our spokesdog for two projects. He had a paper published and went to Palomar 10 times.
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Have you ever thought about the origin of the word pixel? In footnote 114 or so of my book, minor changes to come, before I get it out there, you might find something like this, well, fun! Let this post be a teaser.
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My robot vomited in my lab. It's ok. We cleaned it up.
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Regarding Gliese 229B, seen first in 1994 by me: a team lead by Jerry Xuan revealed it to be two strange worlds whipping around each other every twelve days as they orbit a nearby star with other companions or planets. Binary worlds are no longer sci-fi. They exist.
www.caltech.edu/about/news/i...
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It's Twins! Mystery of Famed Brown Dwarf Solved
Astronomers have discovered that a well-studied brown dwarf is in fact two that are orbiting closely around each other
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/its-twins-mystery-of-famed-brown-dwarf-solved
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Hello people! I'm a professor and curator of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. I study strange new worlds in the solar neighborhood. If you want to learn more about my work:
beccasubstellar.com
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