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🤩 Proud to be collaborating with the #Kapteyn Astronomical Institute and Delft University of Technology in a €1.5 million NWO-funded project to develop an open science platform for orbit calculations in space research!🚀

The 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗢𝗿𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 (𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗) platform will be hosted by the facility for 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 (#BDAIRR) of the CIT.

ℹ️ https://www.rug.nl/society-business/center-for-information-technology/news/0213-1-5-million-nwo-grant-for-open-science-platform-for-orbital-calculations

#opensource #openscience #fair #bigdata #research

1.5 million NWO grant for open science platform for orbital calculations

The UG will receive EUR 670.000 for developing a digital platform

University of Groningen

Science Newsroom - FSE - UG Dec 16

🪐What can we learn from exoplanets?

🔭 Using NASA’s #JamesWebb Space Telescope, astronomers from the UG's #Kapteyn Institute found strong evidence for a thick atmosphere around the ultra-hot super-Earth TOI-561 b.🔥

🧪 #SciComm #astronomy #KapteynInstitute #JamesWebbspacetelescope #astrophysics #physics #extraterrestrial #ET #exoplanets #planetary #research #scientistsOnMastodon @universityofgroningen

Tim Lichtenberg Nov 8, 2022

Paper day on #ScienceMastodon! Because of my recent move to #Kapteyn I did not get to toot (!) about Matt Clement's and my recent #paper "Reduced Late #Bombardment on Rocky #Exoplanets around M #Dwarfs", which was published in the #Astrophysical #Journal Letters a few weeks ago. You can download the paper here: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ...938L...3L. And a ~20 min presentation on it from late October is here: https://youtu.be/M2CopK35Jrs. A short 🧵 on our findings. 🙂 #astronomy #astrodon #astrophysics #science

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Tim Lichtenberg Nov 7, 2022

In October 2022 I started at the #Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of #Groningen as Assistant Professor. I am now looking for two #PhD students to study the evolution of hot rocky #exoplanets, with a focus on magma ocean #interiors and #atmospheres. 🌍🌋🔭 #Application deadline is 1st December 2022. More details can be found at: https://formingworlds.space/post/phd-positions-october-2022.
Please boost. 🙂 #ScienceMastodon #geophysics #planets #astronomy #astrodon #academia #university #research

Scott Trager Nov 2, 2022

#introduction
I'm an #astrophysicist at the #Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the #UniversityOfGroningen in the Netherlands. I study the most massive #galaxies in the Universe and build #AstronomicalInstrumentation to observe them. I'm originally American but have lived in the #NL for more than 20 years now.

I love music, play guitar badly for nearly 40 years, and am an avid board and #TTRPG gamer. I have a deep fondness for comic books and strategy games. #astrodon #astronomy