Mark Popinchalk

@markpopinchalk.bsky.social

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Astrophysics postdoc at AMNH | writer for @astrobites.bsky.social | planetarium presenter | Likes ultimate frisbee, volleyball, and all kinds of games. He/Him

The red disk of the sun colored by forest fire smoke next to a red stoplight
Venus and the crescent moon over NYC
a mock up on a white board of a broken chronology
The five lovely faces of the Science Tonight team for Happy B-Earthday, a birthday part for the earth
the sad pablo meme template showing a person with a melancholy ponder. The text box reads "when an astronomer has to consider magnetic fields"
a sourdough loaf with a simplified HR diagram scored into the top
A whiteboard with a graph, the x axis is temperature, the y axis is luminosity. Almost 100 color coordinated paper stars map out the Main Sequence and other features of the HR diagram.
a poster for Science Tonight! - Space Junk, featuring the cast in a heavily inspired Star Wars stance
two slides, one showing the nasa logo, the other "NASSA" in the same style
Mar 12, Science Tonight! : Space Junk, 9:30 pm
8 smiling faces of the cast and crew hold up a puppet reminiscent of the Sand Worm from Dune with the eyes of RFK jr attached to it
a screen shot of an autocorrected version of Mark Popinchalk that reads Merck Puppet Pack
A roll of paper casting a shadow with two pencils marking the length of the paper
Three smiling figures with party hats stand in front of golden helium balloons that read 100. The central figure is holding a pile of papers that are wearing a sash