Alrighty so NASA (and me and a lot of other people) had a little goof. But I think it’s a great opportunity to remind people that sometimes mistakes can actually be pretty cool and lead to a lot of new perspectives and understanding! 🧪🔭
Posts by Michael Plummer
It was 75 here yesterday in CO and we woke up to a white out this morning!
Congratulations!
Hey #sciart! This is "Punching Above (Normalized)". This piece is a view of the Earth from space through the lens of my plasma physics research. The piece reveals Earth's true intention is to become the next Jupiter. It won 2nd place at the Art of Planetary Science show, open this weekend!
Thank you to all the co-authors including (but not limited to) : @alliemccarthy.bsky.social @evertnasedkin.bsky.social @johannavos.bsky.social @cvisscher.bsky.social @jasonfrowe.bsky.social
Publication day for our paper on the T2.5 brown dwarf/exoplanet analog SIMP0136! We find cloud formation appears to drive upper atmospheric temperature and chemical structure. We also debut a new, novel method for vertical mapping extrasolar atmospheric dynamics.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
I wrote another paper! And yes it's about brown dwarfs wait don't go anywhere they're really neat
arxiv.org/abs/2510.00111
I’m thrilled to announce a new paper that went up on the arXiv last night: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02260! The paper finds and maps the connections between clouds, temperature structure, and chemistry in the isolate exoplanet analog SIMP 0136. Very grateful to all my collaborators and co-authors!
Outstanding new paper from Evert Nasedkin on the variable, isolated exoplanet analog, T dwarf, SIMP-0136! Time resolved atmospheric retrievals find temperature driving variability and potential auroral signatures (stratospheric temperature inversion)!
Looks like it’s a strong possibility
Really nice opening drive
I loved this paper, particularly the comparisons to GCMs! I would definitely love to see more Brown Dwarf Doppler imaging studies!
Perfect story for morning drive to work! Loved it!
The original RE4 marked the shift in the series away from survival horror to action as I recall; I wasn’t a fan of RE5/6 but still really liked RE4
I need to play this; haven’t played RE4 since the PS2 days but loved the RE2 remake
It's NIRPS day! Today we are publishing the first results of the new near infrared planet hunter. A high resolution spectrograph with YHJ coverage and capable of measuring radial velocities with a precision better than 1 m/s.
We debut it with the detection (in the NIR) of Proxima b. #exoplanets 🔭
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover how Diya Talesara uses IR spectroscopy to study biosignatures in exoplanet data. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/07/25/i...
If you could hear in the infrared, what would CO2 sound like? We calculated this recently for a Gen Ed course, and the result is a little eerie.
Results were generated by mapping IR frequency in inverse cm to sound frequency in Hz.
It’s thought to be a shallower ionic ice layer, perhaps explaining the extreme multi-polarity in Neptune’s magnetic field.
Neptune’s magnetic field is thought to be generated in an ionic layer of ice (water, methane and ammonia).
Check out the press release for our recent work using JWST observations of SIMP0136! Also published today on ApJL: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
Thanks! Excited to hear more about the new project!
This wouldn’t happen to have molecular absorption bands too?
Go Bucks!
Good morning #aas245! My students Peter Kearns and Francis Cocchini will be presenting a talk on 1D mapping brown dwarf atmospheres with ground-based photometry on Wednesday at 11:20 AM (319.07) in Stars/Cool Dwarfs/Brown Dwarfs II. Hope to see you there!
I would love a Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 Remaster (also from Sega, I really want a Shenmue remake/remaster with modern controls).
She is such an amazing writer, such a powerful book!
Love this idea! Would you be able to add me as well?