Stella Koch Ocker

Congratulations to NANOGrav for detecting evidence that gravitational waves fill the cosmos. These ripples in the fabric of space happen when massive objects like black holes circle one another before colliding. The result brings us closer to understanding how galaxies evolve. go.nasa.gov/3PwynPD

In eight new papers, @NANOGrav presents evidence for a gravitational wave background. In this bite, we provide an overview of their results and their implications #pulsartimingarrays #GravitationalWaves astrobites.org/2023/06/28/dro…

Read all of our @NANOGrav articles in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, now live and open access!

If you like this hum, you’ll love the discussion of our 15 year results tomorrow at 1pm EDT from NSF headquarters. nanograv.org/news/2023Annou…

Mark your calendars and get ready for a major announcement from the NANOGrav collaboration on June 29th! #nanograv

@Astro_Chad ♥️♥️♥️♥️ ♥️ this is so accurate 😳

The immense difficulty I'm having making this hamentashen is representative of the struggle we have faced as the Jewish people

@Astro_Chad lol is that the only thing it overstates?

Emily in Paris far overstates how easy it is to make friends in your 20s in a brand new city

Did you know the Beatles turned down the chance to be on the @NASAVoyager Golden Record? For more fun facts about Voyager, check out my interview with engineer Todd Barber, scientist Alan Cummings, and Becky Ferreira from @motherboard @VICE! 🛰️🪐🎶 youtube.com/watch?v=jxTAW8…

Happy #PulsarFriday! Have you ever seen the picture below of the Crab Nebula? Did you know that this supernova remnant actually contains a very interesting pulsar? Learn more about it on this edition of Pulsar Friday! 🧵

Happy #PulsarFriday! Today's thread is going to focus on the amazing #WomeninSTEM from around the world who who study pulsars! 🧵

holy moly! thanks @Astro_Madden for the beautiful cover 😲

@Astro_Madden created this beautiful rendition of @NASAVoyager in interstellar space. The lovely wisps are clouds of interstellar gas imaged by the WHAM H-alpha survey.

What Fast Radio Bursts Tell Us About Galaxy Halos Scientists are leveraging enigmatic bursts of radiation to learn about the hot, ionized gas around the Milky Way and other galaxies. aasnova.org/2021/05/21/wha… @Cornell @CornellAstro @space_ocker

@astrolukaswenzl Congrats!!!!! 🥂🥂

My first, first-author paper is now available on arXiv: "Random Forests as a viable method to select and discover high redshift quasars", Accepted by AJ, link: arxiv.org/abs/2105.09171

🔊 From 14.1 billion miles from Earth, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has detected a new cosmic “hum” in interstellar space from the Plasma Wave System instrument aboard the craft! 🌊 Learn about what this fascinating discovery means to us here on Earth: go.nasa.gov/3hf1mGs

@steampunk82 One of my favorite places to start if you're interesting in learning more about Voyager is the NASA/JPL website: voyager.jpl.nasa.gov They have a lot of great materials about the mission and its many discoveries!

@space_ocker Thanks for this discovery! I’m fascinated by the real big picture out there. Do you suggest any readings to know more about it?

After >40 years of space travel, Voyager 1 has discovered an intriguing new signature of plasma vibrating in the interstellar medium. Thanks to this detection, we can now continuously track the structure of interstellar space traversed by Voyager 1!

🌟⭐️✨ My paper on using fast radio bursts to study ionized gas in galaxy halos is officially out in ApJ! You can check it out here doi.org/10.3847/1538-4… (arXiv:2101.04784), or alternatively, see the talk I gave to CHIME/FRB Journal Club: youtube.com/watch?v=C-pF1w… 🌟⭐️✨

Trained astrophysicist @Astro_Madden has found creative ways to use the #Wolfram Language whilst pursing a MFA. Here, Madden shares the process of mapping a list of colors with a list of characters to create beautiful images: wolfr.am/SucHNLyr #MadewithMathematica