My teenage son has composed his first song and has shared it on YouTube. youtu.be/yFpCjoHW0Nw?... He titled it "Improvement" because it gets better as it goes on. I'm rather impressed with how it came out.

A little sneak peak from the MEAD survey of white dwarfs within 25 pc using MIRI 10 and 15 micron imaging filters. Visit 101 of the survey captured images of EGGR 199, which is just 16pc away. No planets down to 3 Mjup found nearby the white dwarf! (1/2) #astrosci 🔭

As NASA closes Goddard Space Flight Center, Union says: “High profile missions currently supported by the public, Congress and/or the President (e.g., Roman, Dragonfly) will be immediately harmed or endangered.” 🧪🔭

NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...

#astro if you do research in astronomy, Have you filled out the ADS survey yet?

In Cycle 2, I was co-PI of the largest volume limited survey of nearby white dwarfs with #JWST. Our first result is out! Out of 56 white dwarfs, one showed a possible candidate companion between projected separations of 0.5"-2" or roughly 10-40 au. 🔭 #astrosci ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXi...

In the event of a U.S. government shutdown, STScI will extend the James Webb Space Telescope Cycle 5 proposal submission deadline for affected scientists. Details: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news/jwst/2025/jwst-cycle-5-deadline-extension-in-case-of-government-shutdown #NASAWebb 🔭 🧪 ☄️

#SciX is created by the #ADS team & operates out of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under a NASA Cooperative Agreement. Created and developed by scientists, for scientists, SciX builds on decades of open research infrastructure and collaboration: https://bit.ly/CfASciXNews

@mast-news.bsky.social and is at Villanova @villanova teaching undergrads from nearby universities. They got a quick overview of NASA mission data available ilat MAST, astroquery, TESS and FITS/ASDF files.

New HLSP: First results from the Rocky Worlds DDT program are now available at MAST! This release includes calibrated light curves, model fits, preliminary eclipse depth estimation, and auxiliary data for GJ 3929 b. archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/rocky-w... #HLSP #RockyWorlds #JWST #HST #Exoplanets #MAST 🔭

Went to see Ceilidh the musical last night. Such fun for those who like to participate in the shows they attend. Thanks for bringing this show to Baltimore, Noisemaker. www.noisemaker.org.uk/ceilidh-1

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...

Mmm... Sausage and mushroom, I remember it well.

For the morning crowd, here are all the observations stored in the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes. A visual created by Julie Imig, one of our amazing astronomical data scientists. Follow the link below for more colors and even a movie.

Ever wondered what the "MAST Sky" looks like, from our ~6 PB of data spanning 3 decades...check this out! spacetelescope.github.io/mast-blog/ma... Really fun project led by the very talented Julie Imig at MAST, showing mission coverage sky-projected! They make VERY good video backgrounds, btw. 🔭

Have you read the latest MAST blog? MAST's view of the sky: Your Next Wallpaper spacetelescope.github.io/mast-blog/ma... by @mast-news.bsky.social Think of what we have learned and have yet to learn from investing in these missions and making their data open and available to everyone.

What a little curiosity and ingenuity can do -- 3 years of Webb science. White dwarf planets made number 8! science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

New 🪐 around white dwarfs (WD) paper by yours truly! My collaboration had a Cycle 1 #JWST program to look at WDs accreting dust from planetary systems. We looked at four targets and found extra light at 21 microns for two of them! #astrosci #exoplanets 🔭🧪https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21224 (1/n)

Like #Hubble spectra, but it's hard to access? My working group @stsci.edu launched the Hubble Advanced Spectral Products, joining COS and STIS spectra across different modes and instruments for every HST program for the first time 🧪🔭https://archive.stsci.edu/missions-and-data/hst/hasp (1/4)

Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory! Can you guess these regions of sky? This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪 #RubinFirstLook ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

Hello from #NoKings Towson!

TOMORROW! We're just a day away from NO KINGS DAY in Patterson Park! Here are Saturday's schedule and our march route.

#aas246 MAST @mast-news.bsky.social was saved from the evil plans of Dr. Nefarious by the team of scientists attending the AAS. Thank you to those who attended this escape-room-themed MAST workshop at the AAS, had a little fun, and learned a bit about our archive.

And now it's the other white dwarf planet candidate's turn!

Smile pretty little white dwarf star, JWST is taking your picture.

#astronomy #AAS246 Astronomers, If you are coming to the summer AAS in Alaska, come a day early and join us for a fun MAST workshop.

Join MAST at the summer AAS #aas246 and learn about data discovery and analysis in the cloud. Plus have some fun along the way by defeating Dr. nefarious before he deletes all of the MAST data!! I hope to see you in Anchorage.

My daughter also thinks the one that hugs the city line on the north east looks like a curled up fox.

Baltimore County is in the process of redistricting to gain 2 new districts. Interestingly enough, One of the proposed districts looks suspiciously like a Salamander, as shown by my daughter's handiwork.

Join us at the summer AAS meeting for a MAST workshop to help defeat Dr. Nefarious in a short data challenge. The workshop is on Saturday and will show you how to make use of MAST data and compute in the AWS cloud to do astronomy. archive.stsci.edu/contents/new... I hope to see you there!

Happy 35th Birthday Hubble! What a great time to remember how a small investment in science can inspire a generation. More here: science.nasa.gov/mission/hubb...

BREAKING NEWS: Our Umani herd just got a little bit bigger! At 9am this morning — after a pregnancy that kept us all waiting — Zongoloni’s baby was finally ready to make his debut. Zongoloni gave birth amidst her human-elephant family, safely delivering a beautiful little boy.

I wrote a research note about the recent publication of the MIRI/LRS spectrum of K2-18b. The authors had claimed the detection of potential signs of life. I find the data to be consistent with a flat line 🔭🧪

Registration is now open for the next #JWST JWebbinar – Exoplanet Time-Series Observations with MIRI: From Pixels to Transit/Eclipse Light Curves to Results  – to be held on May 5th. Get the details: ow.ly/r0VK50VxvbB

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall. 1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.

Maryland voters: join me on the @aas.org Zoom on Friday at noon. I'll give a short summary of the congressional appropriations process, and I'll walk you through making your own request for funding for NASA, NSF, and DOE Office of Science. 🧪🔭 Zoom at noon on Friday, April 18: bit.ly/3Y1cJq2

"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

I scrapped my plans for my classes today and had my students build a timeline of the Kilmer Abrego Garcia case - then we articulated the constitutional issues at every step. We noticed how the Trump admin consistently reads court orders in bad faith. Sidestepping responsibility. #BringHimHome

Astroquery.mast is one of the many ways MAST helps astronomers and everyone who knows how to use Python get access to NASA's data.

For those interested in studying transiting exoplanets with MIRI.. www.stsci.edu/contents/new...

Laura Chomiuk, Raffaella Margutti, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, and Nathan Sanders are strong mentors to me, and as I read their description of Alicia, I see how much of her shines through them. It's an honor to get to know her through their eyes. I encourage all to read. baas.aas.org/pub/2025i006...

Do yourself a favor and just take a look at the RR Lyrae light curve from TESS. mast.stsci.edu/viz/ui/#/lcv... And remind yourself that the Universe is constantly changing.

More than 24 hours of #GoodTrouble www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMx...

Technical reports containing in-depth analysis of observatory performance and instrument calibration are available to #JWST observers. ow.ly/hRGm50VpUEA

I'll be on Maryland Public Television's Direct Connection tonight at 7 pm to talk about this new JWST image, plus share some favorite JWST and Hubble images. The theme of the evening will be "star formation" 🤩

Come work with us at STScI in Baltimore and help make the universe available to everyone.

An interesting opportunity in Baltimore.