Jonathan Williams
- UMD Astronomy
- https://www.astro.umd.edu/~jonvwill/
NSF Astronomical Sciences/Electromagnetic Spectrum Management · Astrophysicist · Engineer · Posts are my own.
Joined Dec 2017
Astrophysicists Discover a Dozen Black Holes Orbiting Sgr A*
https://scitechdaily.com/astrophysicists-discover-dozen-black-holes-orbiting-sgr-a/
"Active shooter at YouTube HQ. Heard shots and saw people running while at my desk. Now barricaded inside a room with coworkers."
Modeling future earthquake and tsunami risk in southwestern Japan
(Research funded by the National Science Foundation)
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180402123244.htm
National Science Foundation awards Mag Lab $184 million, solidifying its operations at FSU
US-CERT: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of March 26, 2018
Still one of my favorites.
Alex Rogan: Listen, Centauri, I'm not any of those guys. I'm a kid from a trailer park.
Centauri: If that's what you think, then that's all you'll ever be!
Jonathan Williams
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Voyager 1...job well done.
Team Voyager 1...job VERY well done!
For 2/3 of my life, this tiny piece of technology has enlightened, astonished and inspired me.
So grateful for the team that built such a marvel and for the team who still manages it.
#CoSoScience #Science #CoSoTech #Technology #CoSoSpace #Space
Jonathan Williams
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X-rays that are way safer: A trick captures the medical images using a millionth the radiation. #CoSoScience
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/x-ray-ghost-images-could-cut-radiation-doses
We had the great honor of meeting and talking with smart young scientists at #FutureCon / #AwesomeCon over the last three days.
The future is in good hands.
Jonathan Williams
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NASA reveals delay for Hubble successor #CoSoScience https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03863-5
@th3j35t3r -- if you take requests, is it possible to add U2F/Yubikey 2nd factor as an option?
And since that makes me sound ungrateful, let me say what you've done here with CoSo is awesome :)
Modified Gravity and the Radial Acceleration Relation, Again
https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/03/modified-gravity-and-radial.html
Highest Ever Quarterly Solar Manufacturing Capacity Expansion Announcements In Q4’17
Underground Neutrino Experiment Searches for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Kepler Provides a New Technique for Supernova-Hunting
https://scitechdaily.com/kepler-provides-new-technique-for-supernova-hunting/
Accelerating the development of high-energy lithium batteries
(Research funded by NSF and DoE)
https://www.eedesignit.com/accelerating-the-development-of-high-energy-lithium-batteries/
The Mysterious Purple Lights in the Sky Now Solved
(Citizen Science funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA)
http://www.visiontimes.com/2018/03/25/the-mysterious-purple-lights-in-the-sky-now-solved.html
US-CERT: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of March 19, 2018
Iranian hackers broke into systems used by 8,000 American professors
(A reminder that EVERYONE needs to protect themselves online, and no one should assume they're too unimportant to be a target)
Jonathan Williams
- UMD Astronomy
- https://www.astro.umd.edu/~jonvwill/
NSF Astronomical Sciences/Electromagnetic Spectrum Management · Astrophysicist · Engineer · Posts are my own.
Joined Dec 2017