🪐What can we learn from exoplanets?

🔭 Using NASA’s #JamesWebb Space Telescope, astronomers from the UG's #Kapteyn Institute found strong evidence for a thick atmosphere around the ultra-hot super-Earth TOI-561 b.🔥

Curious? Read more 👇️
🔗https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/matter-and-space/james-webb-space-telescope-detects-thick-atmosphere-around-broiling-lava-world

🧪 #SciComm #astronomy #KapteynInstitute #JamesWebbspacetelescope #astrophysics #physics #extraterrestrial #ET #exoplanets #planetary #research #scientistsOnMastodon @universityofgroningen

Paper day on #ScienceMastodon! Because of my recent move to #Kapteyn I did not get to toot (!) about Matt Clement's and my recent #paper "Reduced Late #Bombardment on Rocky #Exoplanets around M #Dwarfs", which was published in the #Astrophysical #Journal Letters a few weeks ago. You can download the paper here: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ...938L...3L. And a ~20 min presentation on it from late October is here: https://youtu.be/M2CopK35Jrs. A short 🧵 on our findings. 🙂 #astronomy #astrodon #astrophysics #science

In October 2022 I started at the #Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of #Groningen as Assistant Professor. I am now looking for two #PhD students to study the evolution of hot rocky #exoplanets, with a focus on magma ocean #interiors and #atmospheres. 🌍🌋🔭 #Application deadline is 1st December 2022. More details can be found at: https://formingworlds.space/post/phd-positions-october-2022.
Please boost. 🙂 #ScienceMastodon #geophysics #planets #astronomy #astrodon #academia #university #research

#introduction
I'm an #astrophysicist at the #Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the #UniversityOfGroningen in the Netherlands. I study the most massive #galaxies in the Universe and build #AstronomicalInstrumentation to observe them. I'm originally American but have lived in the #NL for more than 20 years now.

I love music, play guitar badly for nearly 40 years, and am an avid board and #TTRPG gamer. I have a deep fondness for comic books and strategy games. #astrodon #astronomy