in the pandemic I started running this game, and when I got a capture card installed in my DS I almost *immediately* broke the DS shell doing this, it is unsurprisingly dangerous, especially in a console with a big wire coming out the back for streaming
Brian Eno: oh shit this sounds like an airport
seriously, our man blows a trumpet into a rock
In this case the logo makes a bunch of sense
you assume they named their general hardware store after the wheel on a car, and not on the verb
Come to Canadian Tire, leave sapped of energy, bored and listless
did you see that I managed to stumble on the solution to a thirty five year old Legend of Zelda mystery thanks to my mom youtu.be/SY00ri_a9y4?...
Why do all you solar astronomers still have questions you need answering, the sun is up every day, it’s right there, its so bright I’m not supposed to look at it with my eyes
I’m over here collecting what little photons I can get from the dawn of damn time
me sitting at the NIRCam console at JWST Mission Operations, wearing a mask because of COVID, it’s like the middle of the night and behind me is the primary control room for the telescope, over my shoulder you can see they’re watching the terrible 2022 film Morbius for some reason
one shift during commissioning the people who *are* allowed to play with the controls were watching Morbius (2022)
my parents are watching the olympics and there's a spanish ice dancer dressed in an arrakis stillsuit for some reason
first: it doesn't look like his boots were properly fit slip fashion
second: it seems kind of insulting to the proud fremen to freeze precious water just for dancing
stupendously lovely game to play and sit with. I had so much fun with exploring the national forest. Also it was fun to find weird stuff like this
A series of thumbnails for JADES galaxies at z > 10, showing these galaxies are complex, with multiple knots and clumps, from my recently submitted paper
This is entirely why I have “Ned Wright Cosmology Calculator” as bookmark, but ALSO these weirdly big z > 10 galaxies are actually (even when correcting for this effect!) still bigger than I might expect at this redshift
there’s this astronomer, Fritz Zwicky, who once got annoyed at how turbulent the sky was for observing one night that he told his assistant to shoot at the sky through the dome slit
It didn’t work but it would have been pretty weird if it did
very cool to hear a Chain Reaction mention, the very important and difficult-to-park-at venue of my own youth
I saw the original post and I yelled this song title out loud and then scrolled much too far to find it, this is the correct answer, this song is an entire awakening, it is how love feels when you don’t understand love, it is all time signature and woodwinds and horns and beauty
I went to Harvey Mudd College just after former drummer Michael Tapper graduated. They played a very early show (like, 2002) at this coffee place on the campus of nearby Scripps College, and I liked their music enough I bought a shirt, they claimed it was the first shirt they’d ever sold.
The JADES GOODS-N Fitsmap, a screenshot, like google maps, with an interface ready to zoom around, and in the center, two blobs representing a distant galaxy from the sample.
The JADES GOODS-N Fitsmap, another screenshot, but this time with the spectral energy distribution (SED) layer dropped down, and one SED visible for the source (1080088), demonstrating its brightness and distance.
You can search for these by ID on FitsMap. For instance, here's a link to 1080088: jades.idies.jhu.edu/goods-n/?ra=.... By clicking one of the layer buttons in the top right corner, you can select "NIRCam DR5 SEDs" and see the SED fit generated for the source.
eight galaxies from the sample, showing their red-green-blue color images in the left-most column, and then black and white NIRCam filter images in the next four columns. Each source has evidence of being at z > 10 (seen at some point less than 500 million years after the Big Bang), with strange shapes with multiple clumps in some cases.
I'm also quite excited to find that about a quarter of the sources have evidence of being morphologically complex, with a lot of objects showing flattened, or clumpy morphologies and shapes. The early Universe was wild. Look at all of these little weirdos!
On the left is an image showing a galaxy candidate JADES-GN+189.15982+62.28899 (ID 1019411) in various NIRCam thumbnails, and the brightness of that object in those thumbnails plotted against wavelength above, with a fit at z = 16.55 overlaid. On the right is a very low signal-to-noise spectrum with a couple of fits showing the range of redshifts consistent with the observed flux, in agreement with the photometric interpretation.
One object we found a few years ago, JADES-GN+189.15982+62.28899 (ID 1019411), which was the farthest in a previous paper I wrote about at a smaller JADES area. We find that it's still a pretty exciting candidate (z_phot = 16.55) with a (admittedly noisy!) spectrum consistent with that redshift!
A plot showing UV absolute magnitude (or intrinsic brightness of the galaxy) vs. the redshift, with an enormous number of tiny points, grey ones are the whole sample, and red ones are those discovered before JWST launched, mostly clustered at low redshift (on the left) and intrinsically brighter sources.
Here's the same plot, but I've colored the points known before JWST launched in these fields with red. This shows why people who study the early Universe are excited about JWST, not just being able to see farther, but being able to see intrinsically much, much *fainter* galaxies. I love seeing this!
A plot showing UV absolute magnitude (or intrinsic brightness of the galaxy) vs. the redshift, with an enormous number of tiny points, blue ones are in GOODS-S, red ones are in GOODS-N, and a small number have black outlines since they've been confirmed spectroscopically. The galaxies are from when the Universe was 200 - 700 million years old, as shown along the top axis.
My contribution to the JADES DR5 release was a paper showing off the TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHTY ONE farthest galaxies and candidates in the survey, a treasure trove of cosmic dawn objects that help us understand how the first galaxies came to be. The paper: arxiv.org/abs/2601.15959
I made this video a few years ago when we first released our public fitsmap, and it gives you an idea of how to look around the data and find interesting galaxies. It might be a little out of date with this new release, but generally it's useful. There are galaxies EVERYWHERE.
You can go and look at the data yourself using our interactive FitsMap viewer, which allows you to see the galaxies, their properties, and what they look like at a variety of wavelengths, including Hubble, JWST/NIRCam, JWST/MIRI, and even in the X-ray with Chandra!
a large image of the JWST / JADES DR5 GOODS-S region of the sky, patchy around the edges, but continuous in the middle, with zoom in regions showing dozens of galaxies.
another large image of the JWST / JADES DR5 GOODS-N region of the sky, patchy around the edges, but continuous in the middle, with zoom in regions showing dozens of galaxies.
Yesterday, the JADES team released our "Data Release 5," an enormous, many-year effort by quite a number of folks combining the 800+ hour JADES data with dozens of public datasets in and around the Hubble Deep and Ultra-Deep fields. It's so exciting!
jades-survey.github.io/high-redshif...
Peace Piece, off Everybody Digs Bill Evans, is perhaps the piece of music that most encapsulates what it feels like to live, daily, to be alive
Marcia Rieke, PI of NIRCam, at a pretend press conference, where she's saying "I find the most distant galaxies," with a label saying "Marcia J. Rieke, ScD: Space Science Pioneer." She's wearing a JWST image windbreaker, and there are fake reporters with phones photographing her in the foreground.
Marcia, wearing her cosmic cliffs windbreaker, at a *mock astronomy press conference* talking about high-redshift galaxies?
carlos in a bunny suit in front of a bunch of screens, including one showing the Large Binocular Telescope. Carlos is wearing an oversize white University of Arizona logo hat, and throwing up the WC wildcat hand gesture. He looks amazing. He's labelled "Carlos J. Vargas, PhD: Cosmic Mission Leader"
I mean, look at my friend Carlos here, this is the best
The University of Arizona Basketball team is doing an astronomy night ("Galaxy Slam") and they put out a trailer with astronomers from Steward and the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, including NIRCam PI Marcia Rieke, and I love it, it's *so* endearingly dorky.
Oh wait also the laminated Windows 98 cheat sheet you buy from Office Depot
Even just the weird shit behind him in his office, the mermaid statue, that crazy lamp with the switches above the lamp
I am not a rep of seestar, I'm just a dork who was way happy this year to have this thing, it makes doing astronomy education and outreach real helpful, but also it's kind of a sick thing to have around for boring but clear nights, this is from my parents house in southern california, still good
