To appear in UoA Scientific Review, 2022 Issue 4.
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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, alongside a handful of foreground Milky Way stars that show the hex-spike diffraction pattern.
This image marks a significant moment in the history of Homo sapiens.
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Humanity’s first portrait of Sagittarius A*
The supermassive black hole at the core of our galaxy.
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This essay is due to appear in the next issue of UoA Scientific. -
FW’s Cosmology Unwrapped 2021: a year of papers in Review [Ongoing]
A summary of papers I keep in a special Mendeley folder: stuff that I consider big news and major developments in the field of cosmology and nearby areas.
I will do one every year from now on. This is aimed at a general physics audience, and the stories are not presented in any particular order.
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Essays for #dearMoon
Well I wrote them more than a month ago as timely snapshots of my state of mind and ambitions, and have decided that it might be cool for me to share them here too.
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Yourong Frank Wang 