New from Nature: “I had to take a moment of silence to appreciate what I was seeing.” Astronomers reveal what could be the first ever image of a planet in its star’s habitable zone—and in the same star system as Avatar, no less www.nature.com/articles/d41...

WHOA. Astronomers may have found a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the closest sun-like star to the Sun! It's a binary system, too, so if this is confirmed it'll be an AMAZING discovery! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-planet-f... 🔭🧪

New kid on the block 🪐 Webb has found the strongest evidence yet of a gas giant around Alpha Centauri A! If confirmed, it would be the nearest planet that orbits in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪

The Alpha Centauri System ⭐ ⭐, the closest star system to our own solar system, system contains two Sun-like stars, Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, and a faint red dwarf star, Proxima Centauri, the only star of the system confirmed to host three confirmed planets. (1/7) 🧵 🔭 🧪

After years of searching, astronomers have found strong evidence of a planet around Alpha Centauri, a near-twin of our Sun in the nearest neighboring star system. This would also be the closest exoplanet ever observed directly. 🧪🔭 webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

NEWS: Will you be my neighbor? #NASAWebb has found strong evidence of a gas giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, a star in the stellar system closest to our own sun: webbtelescope.pub/4oyLiQa 🔭 🧪

It was a truly heroic effort by the team at STScI to see this series of programs through. Check out Sarah’s thread for why this has been one of the most challenging observations for JWST!

Check out our short update on JWST mid-infrared observations of the closest Sun-like star, Alpha Centauri A! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

I experiment with using a large archival PSF library to improve the performance of Reference Star Differential Imaging in Keck/NIRC2 observations! I have provided raw images, PSF-subtracted images, and contrast curves for ~4 years worth of survey observations on Zenodo. arxiv.org/abs/2408.14268

Submitted my first-ever proposal as PI in the first week of grad school!! Feeling super proud and excited!🥳🤞✅

First Post!🚨 Paper Day! 🥳 arxiv.org/abs/2309.03082 ✅New brown dwarfs, spectra, and parallaxes ✅Luminosities, masses, radii, temperatures, and gravities for 1000+ ultracool dwarfs ✅Polynomial relations (see Tables 5 and A1 👀) ✅Comparison to BT-Settl and ATMO 2020 atmospheric models