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The last day of meteorological summer - & my last day at the University of Portsmouth - and it is raining.
I'll miss the commute into the Uni: a 20-minute bicycle ride and then a ferry trip across the Solent. There is always something to see on this short stretch of water.
I was just showing these new #JWST data to our team yesterday. Apparently they've already been making the round on X, so I might as well share my own version:
Left: HST F814W filter; Right: RBG image in 3 JWST filters. I lack the skills to make it pretty but check out the southern component! 1/4
Ok, one last thing because supernovas are awesome.
Here is a timelapse showing how the SN 1987A supernova remnant has changed over time. We see the effects of a shock wave from the supernova blast smashing into the ring, which is about one light-year across. The ring brightens, revealing clumps of previously ejected material as the shock wave hits it.
https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/videos/2017/08/934-Video.html
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Instead of a typical intro, I'll reveal something unique about myself: I started in planetary science as an amateur.
I am what happens when spacecraft missions release their data to the public.
I went from image processing, to reading up on Titan literature, to going to planetary science conferences during vacations, to transitioning from a 20-year pharma career to a NASA senior postdoc in planetary science at JPL, to current job as scientist at JPL.