Ryan Ridden

@ryanridden.bsky.social

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Astronomer at the University of Canterbury

A patch of young New Zealand native trees on a grassy hillside.
An urn containing the ashes of each PhD thesis from the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics
A series of TESS lightcurves extracted by TESSELLATE which include example events of GRB afterglow, dwarf nova, flare star, variable star, asteroid detections, and an exoplanet candidate.
Scaup duck and ducklings in a pond with foliage in the foreground.
A segment of the Hubble Space Telescope foil shielding recovered from a servicing mission.