Scott Trager

@sctrager.bsky.social

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Geek. Astronomer at Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, U Groningen, NL. Sort of but not quite Dutch. Lover of loud noisy music and good food. WEAVE Project Scientist and Deputy PI. Scientific Director of NOVA but I don’t speak for NOVA on here

Fireworks through a rainy window.
Fireworks through a rain-spattered window.
Four fried doughnuts covered in powdered sugar in a white bowl with “oliebollen”’written around its rim
Scott sits in a lab with the Andromeda galaxy projected behind him, with light streaks across the photo and scientific equipment to one side.
A BlackGEM detection of a transient in the galaxy NGC6744, with a picture from Euclid and a spectrum from X-shooter
Paul Groot stands in front of a slide with the first ever film of a galloping horse
Jason Hessels walks in front of a slide with radio dishes and a fast radio burst time series
Philipp Mösta standing in front of his title slide
Alessandra Candian in front of a slide titled “The Aromatic Cosmos”
Ko-Ju Chang stands in front of a slide titled “The Molecular Universe”
A slide of spectra of ices along the light of sight to a protostar
Serena Viti explains a plot of spectra from the JWST of a merging galaxy, both in the AGN center and two outer star-forming regions
Serena Viti standing in front of her title slide
A slide showing the tension between the high-redshift and lower-redshift results on structure formation in the Universe
Koen Kuijken stands in front of a slide titled “KiDS and Euclid”
Filippo Fraternali stands by a slide with the title “Missing Baryons”
Lucie Rowland stands in front of slide titled the “Discovery of a dynamically cold disc galaxy at z=7.31”
Mariska Kriek stands in front of a slide about galaxy evolution
Henk Hoekstra gives Karina Caputi’s talk on “Galaxy Evolution at Infrared Wavelengths”
Ekaterina Ilin stands before a slide titled “magnetized, plasma-filled space”
Tim Lichtenberg stands in front of an artist’s impression of a magma ocean world with the title “The dawn of rocky exoplanet characterization”
A list of Dutch contributions to exoplanet research
Michiel Min in front of a slide titled “exoplanet search programs of NOVA and the move into the characterization era”
Aditya Arabhavi stands in front of a slide with the title “Chemical characterization of ingredients for planet formation around young stars”
A slide with title “Protoplanetary disks” and NOVA instruments with arrows pointing to the regions of protoplanetary disks where each one is sensitive
Nienke van der Marel stands in front of a slide with an artist’s impression of a planet-forming disk with the title “Next steps in planet formation”
Carsten Dominik stands in front of a picture of the planet Beta Pic B
Carsten Dominik stands in front of a slide with a picture of a protoplanetary disk and the title “Advances in our understanding of planet formation from spatially resolved disk observations”
Logos of NOVA and its more than 150 industrial partners for its ELT instrumentation program
logos of NOVA more than 70 partners who built the MIRI spectrograph on JWST
Ramon Navarro stands in front of a still from a movie of the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope
Phil Uttley in front of images of the NICER instrument and Abbie Stevens (among others)
Phil Uttley stands in front of an artist’s concept of a stellar mass black hole with the title “Future prospects for X-ray studies of black holes”
Manuela Vecchi stands in front of a slide that says “Gamma rays from dark matter spikes in intermediate mass black holes”
Elena Maria Rossi stands near a flowchart of the organization of the LISA project
Elena María Rossi stands in front of images of the center of the Milky Way
Anna Watts stands in front of a screen that reads “Mapping Neutron Stars Inside and Out”, with an artist’s impression of a magnetized neutron star
Heino Falcke standing in front of the first picture of the shadow of the black hole in the massive galaxy M87, the “eye of Sauron” picture
Heino Falcke standing in front of a simulation of a black hole
Beef and potato stew over rice
Photo overlooking ocean baths on La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
Happy people gathered around a table with turkey and other Thanksgiving foods
Sunset over a mountain
Three different varieties of strawberries
Small waterfall over Normandy cliffs, backlit