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stevegoldman.bsky.social
Astrophysicist & Software Engineer for the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes @ The Space Telescope Science Institute. Evolved stars, image alignment, woodworking, and hot takes.
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I figured they’d appoint a flat earther as NASA administrator . . . . so at least there’s that.

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Some people aren’t immediately astonished by images like this, and that fact hurts me inside.

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New paper✨ Some of the dustiest evolved stars might not lose as much mass or produce as much dust as we thought. It’s looking like they might have equatorially enhanced dust envelopes 🍩 possibly shaped by binary companions💫. arxiv.org/abs/2501.027... @anywaythewind.bsky.social #astronomy #stars

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New paper✨ Some of the dustiest evolved stars might not lose as much mass or produce as much dust as we thought. It’s looking like they might have equatorially enhanced dust envelopes 🍩 possibly shaped by binary companions💫. arxiv.org/abs/2501.027... @anywaythewind.bsky.social #astronomy #stars

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My favorite citation was when a group cited my dusty wind speed measurements when discussing the weather patterns in the Helmand Basin, Iran. We measured the wind speeds around red giant stars. ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021JESS...

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

The more I study dust, the more I start to agree with Daniel Craig.

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My wife and I need to settle an argument. True or false: Pasta is noodles

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone else pointed out the fact that the place where they were secretly testing the new stealth bomber was at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center . . . and there’s a not so hidden stealth bomber in THE LOGO!

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One of the two original designs for the James Webb Space Telescope was for it to be a MOON-BASED! The instruments would be underground, to protect against radiation and meteorites, and the rails in the image were for the hanger-like shield.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Since Trump planned a hasty withdrawal of Afghanistan for Biden’s first months in office I feel like it’s only fair if Biden starts planning a withdrawal of say . . . Guantanamo?

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Even in my research, I can’t help but feel a dark force is amassing its armies.

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Check out the new press release on our spectacular new VLTI/GRAVITY images of the dusty red supergiant WOH G64! m.youtube.com/watch?v=XYdX...

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Today we got new Hubble imaging data of the dwarf galaxy DDO 68! We’ll use it to better understand how sun-sized stars contributed to the regeneration of the universe, and whether they created the dust that we see at high redshift. spacetelescopelive.org/hubble?obsId...

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I went to a talk with friends by UFO guy Louis Elizondo. I got to ask the final question of the night and used it to pressure him on “anti-gravity”. The whole experience left me with mixed feeling. They have so much enthusiasm for UFOs, but also astronomy. I feel we need to reach out more to them.

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Some stars will slurp up their neighbors, explode, and then they'll both pretend like nothing happened (Goldman et al. 2024) ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXi...

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