I prepared this for distribution to the participants of our second Astrophotography workshop later this week. And maybe with more research and refinement this might become an actual pop-publication one day. Get a PDF copy of this guide (v1, 10/10/2023)COMING SOON
Category: Astronomy
Baristas and Elliptical Galaxies – 00
What kind of galaxies have the highest entropy? Late at night, waiting for a hyped-up rocket launch, I stumbled upon an old attempt to calculate the entropy of my simulated dark matter ensemble while idly scrolling my old code from my first year of PhD. It wasn't used in any published result, other than confirming … Continue reading Baristas and Elliptical Galaxies – 00
Conquest of Spaces – A (Rather Late) Review of James Webb Space Telescope’s First Five Images.
To appear in UoA Scientific Review, 2022 Issue 4. Images from https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums/72177720300469752 In mid-July 2022, a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) entered service. Five unique test images highlighting the telescope’s various subsystems and capabilities were made available to the public in high-profile events from the governments of the USA and … Continue reading Conquest of Spaces – A (Rather Late) Review of James Webb Space Telescope’s First Five Images.
JWST’s First Color Image
Hubble vs Webb photo of the same area Participating in duplicate information and internet memes is against the founding principles of this blog, but who am I if I don't have a copy of this here? This much-awaited image depicts a cluster of galaxies bending space time and magnifying light from much further away objects, … Continue reading JWST’s First Color Image
Humanity’s first portrait of Sagittarius A*
The supermassive black hole at the core of our galaxy
FW’s Cosmology Unwrapped 2021: a year of papers in Review [Ongoing]
A summary of 2021 cosmology notes not immediately from my own research, but I consider important as well.
Two Late 2021 CGI Artworks
Reunion (3072 × 4096) Medium: Blender Cycles + Hand painting. December 2021. During my freshman year, I imagined a space colony utilizing the material of Enceladus (Saturn II). This new rendition moves the space station off the surface of the moon and bends metal and concrete into a van Braun ring space station design. It … Continue reading Two Late 2021 CGI Artworks