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@SciBry Nice job keeping the musical 🎵 🎶 theme going for the WIM!

Blair Savage, professor emeritus of the University of Wisconsin, died of cancer last night (July 18), preceded in death by his wife Linda just a few months ago. I will share more later, but he was a huge influence on my life and a source of support and encouragement. RIP Blair.

I'm hiring a postdoc Fall 2022 to work on the “The Large Magellanic Cloud’s Galactic Wind through the Eyes of ULLYSES” Hubble Legacy Archive project to characterize the mechanical feedback from the LMC and its impact on the galaxy’s environment: jobs.tcu.edu/en-us/job/4973…

Outrageously excited to share that starting July 2021, I will be an NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow @JHUPhysicsAstro and then move on to a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the Physics Department @ColoradoCollege! A dream becoming my reality!

I'm been officially awarded an @NSF grant to do research using @WHAM_CTIO telescope. This is a collaborative grant with @LMHaffner at @EmbryRiddle as the lead. The @TCU portion of the grant will help provide resources for undergrad & graduate student research.

For the first time, scientists have found evidence to suggest that the center of the Milky Way Galaxy may share characteristics with some distant galaxies classified as LINERS, which emit more radiation than an ordinary galaxy but less than an active one. fcld.ly/azrz2nm

Did you hear about my discovery that the bar of the Milky Way is now the closest LI(N)ER to us in the universe and wonder what other galaxy bars are like? Me too - and you can find out more yourself by reading our follow-up work on the arxiv today! arxiv.org/abs/2007.01874

Wisconsin: Peering Under Galactic Dust, Study Reveals Radiation at Center of Milky Way news.wisc.edu/peering-under-…

Figuring out how much energy permeates the center of the Milky Way — a discovery reported in the journal @ScienceAdvances — could yield new clues to the fundamental source of our galaxy’s power, said L. Matthew Haffner of Embry-Riddle. ow.ly/2oBG50ApjJO @UWMadison

Zoom into the center of the Milky Way in this video from @DK_and_a_bit, the @uwastro graduate student who led the study along with @UWWhitewater and @EmbryRiddle astronomers.

We can't see the center of the Milky Way because enormous clouds of dust block our view. But thanks to a Wisconsin-born telescope and a blob of the galactic center peeking out, we now know how much energy permeates the galactic center. news.wisc.edu/peering-under-…

Hi World - A new discovery I've been working on for several years now is finally out! We discovered ionized gas close to the center of the Milky Way in optical light using @WHAM_CTIO (Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper)! advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/27/e…

Our research is featured in @HubbleTelescope News today! We found signatures in the Magellanic Stream that it was ionized by a Seyfert Flare that erupted from the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. This research was lead by Andrew Fox & Elaine Frazer at @stsci

Wisconsin-Whitewater: Astronomers Discover 30° Arc of Ultraviolet Emission Centered on the Big Dipper #aas236 uww.edu/news/archive/2…

Wisconsin-Madison: First Optical Measurements of Milky Way’s Fermi Bubbles Probe Their Origin #aas236 news.wisc.edu/first-optical-…

Today's discovery is *emission* from the bubble, seen by the WHAM telescope! By measuring the optical emission and combining it with the UV absorption data, they have derived the density and pressure of the gas, which appears to be very high. #AAS236

First up is Dhanesh Krishnarao (University of Wisconsin, Madison) discussing the first optical measurements of Fermi Bubbles probing their origin #AAS236

Today at #AAS236, @UWMadison astronomer Dhanesh Krishnarao and his team report measuring the mysterious Fermi Bubbles in the visible spectrum for the first time. Up next: the entire 50,000-light-year-across streams of gas. news.wisc.edu/first-optical-…

Excited to say I’ve accepted a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Physics at @ubcokanagan in Kelowna, BC (don't have to move!). I get to keep trying to understand gas in our Galaxy while also teaching, working with students, and helping develop an astro program.

Congratulations @jantwi_d for just submitting your 1st, 1st author publication! In this paper, we are exploring the distance to the Leading Arm of gaseous stream that is associated with the Magellanic Cloud galaxies using H-alpha observations collected with @WHAM_CTIO. /high_five