Jennifer Andrews

LOOK UP: This evening, watch Makaliʻi - the constellation Pleiades, or Messier 45 - rise in the east at the exact same time the Sun sets in the west. In Hawaiian culture, this marks the beginning of Makahiki season, an important time of peace, appreciation, and celebration of the Hawaiian New Year. Every sunset after tonight, you’ll see the Makaliʻi star cluster higher and higher above the horizon as Makahiki season continues through late January or February 👉ksbe.edu/article/the-ri… 📸 credit: NASA/ESA/AURA/Caltech

Coatis gathered along the fence at the summit. Photo by B. Pinault.

@TrentDupuy I come home to random tropical fruits on my lanai from my neighbors, so it's not all bad here in Hilo ;)

Apparently, I live in an Edinburgh neighborhood where someone politely propped a Mercedes hub cap up against the retaining wall of a private garden. And rent here is ~half of what we paid in Hilo.

@_sublunar_ No one told me to negotiate for a barley allocation when I got hired. Now I feel like I missed an opportunity.

Just barley making ends meet

When we saw this #JWST spectrum of the peculiar 03fg-like or "super-Chandra" type Ia #Supernova 2022pul, our jaws hit the floor.

@sciencef1rst There will be a virtual component, and we plan to record talks so that they can be viewed by those who live in less conducive time zones!

@jendrews Is it online, and are journalists invited? : )

Please come and join us to discuss the current and future status of multi-messenger astronomy!

@brianschatz Pretty sure I bought the last bottle on the Big Island two months ago....

Once the sriracha shortage resolves it’s smooth sailing until the General Election.

@sciencepolicia Wait, what!?!?!?! He left us?? 🥹

Geaux Tigers!!!

@AstrogirlE33 I JUST finished rewatching it again and I agree- what an amazing show!!!

@astrothad Make sure to check out Charlie's paper too, which comes up with slightly different results using different types of data and analysis! arxiv.org/abs/2306.04722

Also includes archival NIR data from @GeminiObs North and new data from @mmtobservatory (two of my absolute favorite telescopes!)

Excited for this paper on the progenitor of SN 2023ixf! Jacob and our team used Spitzer and NIR photometry (including some taken less than TWO WEEKS BEFORE EXPLOSION!) to determine a period of the RSG progenitor, which may have been over 17 Msun in size! arxiv.org/abs/2306.08678

@astro_dan_mil Just showed this in a journal club I gave at Gemini, and everyone loved it!!!

Incredible. John Daglas was imaging the Pinwheel Galaxy M101 constantly during nights bracketing the moment light first arrived from #supernova 2023ixf. Read about it in his telegram, where you can access the original timelapse. Can you spot the transient? wis-tns.org/astronotes/ast…

'Astronomers' is an anagram for 'moon starers.'

@astro_dan_mil @GeminiObs @CNN Wooo! It's great to see all the time we spent setting up the OT for the right dithers and exposure times and the amazing post-proccessing done by our SOS team is being appreciated by all ;)

@jendrews your @GeminiObs image of the #supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy M101 was just featured on @CNN! cnn.com/2023/06/09/wor…

Yes!!! You go @jendrews! She and @GeminiObs colleagues are behind the best image of the #supernova in M101 yet! Be sure to check out the zoomable image. It’s hard to miss SN 2023ixf. noirlab.edu/public/images/…

@astro_dan_mil @GeminiObs We also have the data reduced with DRAGONS available for anyone to use. We're getting it all up on the archive very soon, but in the meantime feel free to let me know if you want access to any reduced GMOS spectra or imaging of this object from June 3!

@SquigglyVolcano As long as I don't look out my bedroom window and see lava, I'm happy! Oh the joys of living in the east rift zone region!

S’up! Just popping in quickly to say hi, and that this eruption is contained within the summit, that there is no sign it’ll overflow, that this is the norm for Kīlauea, and there is no sign of a flank eruption at present. In other words: this is essentially safe, and awesome. :)

It me. And all of my other amazing Gemini-N colleagues!