Excited to share the 1st High-Level Science Product release from the Rocky Words DDT! Each RWDDT eclipse will result in HLSPs which you can use for preliminary science investigations or as a starting point for your own reduction/fit. Awesome work by Tyler Baines, Achrène Dyrek, and the RWDDT CIT 🪐🔭

Join us tomorrow (September 10) at 11:00 EDT to learn about What's New in JWST Cycle 5! Presenters will cover policy changes, tips on proposal writing, and updates to available tools. 🔭

Read the latest about JWST's Rocky Worlds Director's Discretionary Time program, including final targets and an upcoming information session: ow.ly/mgxA50WReQt

The Rocky Worlds DDT has published our final target list. Join us for an information session on September 15 to learn more about the 9 targeted planets and the goals of the program. 🔭 #exoplanets

STScI is now accepting applications for the Giacconi Fellowship in astrophysics. Start date is Fall 2026 and funding is available for 3 years. More info here: www.stsci.edu/stsci-resear...

“Our results confirm that there is no statistical significance for DMS or DMDS in K2-18 b's atmosphere. … we estimate that ~25 more MIRI transits would be needed for a 3-sigma rejection of a flat line relative to DMS/DMDS features ….” arxiv.org/abs/2505.13407

Upcoming JWebbinar on Exoplanet Time Series Observations, special MIRI edition! The @spacetelescope.bsky.social #JWST MIRI team has some great transiting exoplanet experts (including @taylorbell275.bsky.social) and they will be presenting this JWebbinar - registration details below.

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

Literally moments away from being safely transported to Maryland on a big auto transport truck, our car got rear ended while stationary... Thankfully still drivable and en route to Maryland, but really not what we were hoping for today... 🚗 💥 🚗

Proud to see the special collection of Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science papers out (all open-access)! www.nature.com/collections/... This has been such a whirlwind of effort over the last few years, with a great team - it's hard to even imagine the pre-JWST era now.

Excited to share that on Jan 27th I'll be starting at @spacetelescope.bsky.social as an ESA/AURA Astronomer on the JWST/MIRI team! Thrilled to be joining an amazing group of people where I'll spend 50% of my time on support work (including supporting the Rocky Worlds DDT 🪐) and 50% on research 🔭

Exoplaneteers! The leads of the @spacetelescope.bsky.social Rocky Worlds program with Hubble and JWST will be providing an update for the community on Jan 21st at 11 am Eastern Time. You're encouraged to submit your questions ahead of the event. More info here > www.stsci.edu/contents/new... 🔭

Happy to announce v1.0 of Eureka! for JWST time-series observations, with bug patches and new features. We made several backwards-compatibility breaking changes to make the pipeline easier to use and easier to maintain. Please check out the new version github.com/kevin218/Eur... 🔭🪐

This was a very exciting Hubble+NIRCam+MIRI dataset to work on, and happy to have it published now! A huge congrats to lead author @luiswel.bsky.social go.nasa.gov/3WNFMh9

I was pleased and surprised to be able to see tonight's Aurora from Mountain View, California!

Really excited to have this amazing JWST Early Release Science paper now published! This was a huge team effort, and it was such a pleasure working with everyone. go.nasa.gov/4dnI6RR

"The proposal does not adequately address the out of field impact, which counts as 1/3 of the total rating." Are others surprised that this was weighted so heavily for JWST Cycle 3? What are we supposed to say: "It is critically important to study Exoplanet # b to understand galactic formation"? 🪐🔭

My interview with @arfon and @abbycabs from the newly minted JOSSCast is now live! Check it out for a fun discussion on open source software and the Eureka! data analysis pipeline in particular blog.joss.theoj.org/2024/01/joss... 🔭🪐

Very excited to have this paper now published in Nature! Using the transit and eclipse methods with JWST, we found methane and water throughout the atmosphere of the warm-Jupiter WASP-80b at greater than 6 sigma. More exciting results from the MANATEE GTO team coming soon 🔭🪐

This sort of thing makes me very glad that we have NASA’s ADS in astro academia. So much neater, more reliable and easier to use than GScholar. And also free. Every time I look at paid tools for citation tracking, I dispair.

PSA: Tomorrow morning is an annular solar eclipse visible from many parts of the US. ⚠️DO NOT LOOK AT THE SUN WITHOUT PROPER PROTECTION.⚠️ During an annular eclipse, at NO TIME is it safe to look at the sun without specially manufactured solar viewing film or filters. 1/2

It's Friday night. I did enough this week. I can have a wonderful restorative weekend with my kids. You did enough this week. I hope you have a wonderful restorative weekend too. 🥰