💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀

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asst prof | astronomy PhD | MSU | https://adina.feinste.in

Tintin and captain meme. Captain says, "What a day, huh?" And Tintin responds with, "Captain it's still Wednesday."
graphs showing the umbral-to-penumbral area ratio versus contrast of the starspots on V1298 Tau. the values are consistent with solar
two light curves of V1298 Tau spanning 20 days. The top light curve is V1298 Tau observed in g' band. The bottom light curve is V1298 Tau observed in r' band. We fit the light curves assuming different spot properties of the host star
JWST light curves of V1298 Tau c (top row) and V1298 Tau d + b (bottom row)
screenshot of the title and authors of a manuscript. Title: "KRONOS II: Solar-like Umbra and Penumbra Properties on the Young Sun V1298 Tau" First Author: Matthew M. Murphy
the 0.8-2.8 micron transmission spectrum of V1298 Tau c shows clear water absorption features
JWST NIRISS/SOSS white light curve fit with four different methods: masking, gaussian functions for the spot crossing events, using fleck, and throwing a gaussian process at the light curve
Screenshot of the title and authors of a recent peer-reviewed paper. the title: "KRONOS I: The 1-2.8 micron JWST Transmission Spectrum of the 23 Myr V1298 Tauc" led by Matthew M. Murphy
Two orange cats and one black and white cat snuggling together on a fluffy gray doggy bed
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope folded up in the NASA Goddard clean room
wavelength versus spot contrast plot and residuals. this figure shows the spot contrast from ~0.5 to 5 microns for a persistent polar spot on an M dwarf star. The temperature of the spot is ~180K colder than the photosphere. there are disagreements between the model and the data at the shortest optical wavelengths
seven panel figure showing different JWST transits of TOI-3884 b with a persistent spot-crossing event. TOI-3884 b orbits the pole of a small M dwarf star. the shape of the spot-crossing event changes slightly between each transit. each subpanel has a graphical representation of what the spot looks like during each transit.
Two orange cats. The left cat is sitting in a scrabble box. The right cat is sitting on top of a folded backgammon board
A picture of the international space station overlaid on a football field. The end zones if the football field say "NASA". the size of the international space station is roughly the size of the football field
A screenshot of a medium blog by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb titled "Imagining 'The Alien'" which features a picture of a clay alien that looks like a Cornish pixie from Harry Potter, featuring two additional tentacles
A crossstitch of a black bird taking a number off of a sign on a phone pole. The sign says, "Tired of being a bird?" and has a picture of a blue bird on it
a digram of exoplanet mass, in earth masses, on the x-axis and exoplanet radius, in earth radii, on the y-axis. the background of the plot is shaded by the relative number of planets. V1298 Tau bcde are highlighted as red circles. vertical lines are drawn to estimate how much these planetary radii are expected to evolve over 5 Gyr. the planets roughly go from radii of 5-10 REarth to 2-4 REarth, depending on evolutionary assumptions.
Orange cat semi-hiding in a basket
An article titled, "NASA withholding new images of mysterious object from beyond solar system" by Futurism
An article from the New York post titled "US rep calls on NASA to share unreleased pics of 3I/ATLAS as comet color-shifts for third time"
A giant pumpkin head with green streamers underneath surrounded by smaller painted pumpkin people. The sign in the window behind the characters reads, "Oh well....you'll join us someday." The characters are from the show Over the Garden Wall
Property of New York water maker filtration system
Skeleton yard flamingo planted in a black and purple flower bed
12 gallons of apple cider and 1 red solo cup
A baseball field
A cat paw with a what sock on a human hand, both using a track pad
A chart of level, color, significance category, and key observable criteria. this ranking is supposed to provide a way to categorize interstellar objects from completely natural phenomena to aliens about to attack us. this was created by a team of scientists who are spreading misinformation about interstellar objects.
Meme about observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Top row: a picture of muscular SpongeBob next to a very high resolution image of the comet from the Rubin Observatory. Bottom row: a picture of smooth normal SpongeBob next to a very low resolution of the comet from NASA's TESS mission.
Undergraduate student talking to three people at their research poster
Orange and white cat with a pouty lip
first image from the Vera Rubin Observatory featuring thousands of stars and a lot of galaxies
A zucchini cut in half with grill marks
A very small fawn trying to run on the side of the road
a white board with Gen z terms written on it and at the top it says, "Gen Z terms to teach Adina"
A copy of the board game "publish or perish: a humorous part game about academic publishing" with two expansions: "academic sh*t post" and "the revenge of reviewer 2"
Picture of boxes of biscoff ice cream bars in a freezer
A screenshot of two browser windows. Left: What is the James Webb Space Telescope Looking at? home page. The target listed is AU Mic. Right: What is the Hubble Space Telescope Looking at? home page. The target listed is AU Mic.
An orange cat with white socks hiding behind a cardboard cutout tree from the board game Everdell
Finspan: a wingspan game
An orange cat and a tuxedo cat snuggled together in a round bed that's way too small for both of them
Pot of fully matzah balls
Cross stitch of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars in individual circular embroidery hoops
a person submerged under water with two thumbs up sticking up out of the water
Two orange kittens sleeping together. One kitten has white socks.
Black and white kitten sitting in a tent with a pickle toy
picture of the Lansing, Michigan state capitol building with several hundred people outside for the the Stand Up for Science rally
Top image: Squidward saying "people talk loud when they want to act smart, right?" Bottom image: plankton yelling "correct?"
Very round small ginger bunny with teeny tiny ears
A black and white long haired guinea pig laying on a cardboard box. The guinea pig's face is completely blocked with luscious hair
An array of National Park Junior Ranger badgers from Arches, Badlands, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Denali, Devil's Tower, Dinosaur (national monument), For Henry, Glacier Bay, Glacier, Jewel Cave, Mesa Verde, New Bedford Whaling, Petrified Forest, Rocky Mountain, Sunset Crater Volcano, Walnut Canyon, and Wupatki
Image of a big sprawling canyon. The canyon dirt is mostly red. The sky is bright blue. There's not a single cloud in the sky
Article from FLYING. "representative Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday raised concerns about DOGE's access to NASA's payments, calling it a "multibillion-dollar conflict of interest." The unofficial government department, created via executive order, is spearheaded by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, whom the White House has identified as a 'special government employee.' 'Ant access could provide Me. Musk's company... With insider information that would benefit SpaceX at the expense of that company's competitors and the taxpayers,' Meng wrote in a letter to Petro, urging her to revoke Musk and his staff's access to the space agency. 'Such a visit would be wildly inappropriate.'"
A two part meme. On the left hand side is a woman looking disgusted with the caption, "Bowing to the administration's stupidity." On the right hand side is the same woman looking intrigued with the caption, "launching the administration into space." This is in response to a recent news article citing that NASA had changed the biography of renowned astronomer Vera Rubin to "comply" with the new administration's erasing-DEI efforts
Golden trophy with a tractor on top. The plaque reads "MSU astronomy fantasy football champions. Per aspera ad astra"
Meme of Tin Tin talking to the captain. The captain says, "what a year, huh?" Tin Tin responds, "Captain, it's January."
two images. the top image has a shirtless man holding a gardening shove, gesturing to a giant swastika tattoo on his chest. the top image is captioned, "It's going to be a maze." the bottom image has two other men looking at each other, smiling and shrugging, accepting the maze explanation.