Doug Hilton 🔭
@dhilton.bsky.social
Astronomical and Planetary Sciences student at ASU. Future exoplanet astrophysicist.
Human Dad to 1 | 🐱 Dad to 4 | 🐢 Dad to 1 | 🏳️🌈 ally | sci-fi nerd | nature lover | board gamer | He/him
Human Dad to 1 | 🐱 Dad to 4 | 🐢 Dad to 1 | 🏳️🌈 ally | sci-fi nerd | nature lover | board gamer | He/him
Demo site page with full details on this demo and how to build it yourself here:
demos.smu.ca/demos/astron...
Also includes caveats about building your own "stars" and using common measurement apps.
#iTeachPhysics
demos.smu.ca/demos/astron...
Also includes caveats about building your own "stars" and using common measurement apps.
#iTeachPhysics
August 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
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August 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Interview by @earthskyscience.bsky.social with the lead author Melissa McClure at Leiden University in the Netherlands on their amazing discovery of the very early stages of solar system and planet formation inside a pro-planetary disk around HOPS-351. #exoplanets 🔭
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1za...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1za...
BREAKING! Astronomers Witness The Dawn Of A New Solar System. With Melissa McClure
YouTube video by EarthSky
www.youtube.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Interview by @earthskyscience.bsky.social with the lead author Melissa McClure at Leiden University in the Netherlands on their amazing discovery of the very early stages of solar system and planet formation inside a pro-planetary disk around HOPS-351. #exoplanets 🔭
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1za...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1za...
This is ALL on Murkowski now! She ALONE could have stopped this!
CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES - TELL THEM THIS IS A DISASTER AND THEY NEED TO VOTE NO!
www.newsweek.com/big-beautifu...
CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES - TELL THEM THIS IS A DISASTER AND THEY NEED TO VOTE NO!
www.newsweek.com/big-beautifu...
Republican Senator tells House not to vote on bill she just voted for
Sen. Lisa Murkowski backs Trump's megabill but urges House to return it for fixes, citing Medicaid cuts and tax impacts on Alaska.
www.newsweek.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is ALL on Murkowski now! She ALONE could have stopped this!
CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES - TELL THEM THIS IS A DISASTER AND THEY NEED TO VOTE NO!
www.newsweek.com/big-beautifu...
CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES - TELL THEM THIS IS A DISASTER AND THEY NEED TO VOTE NO!
www.newsweek.com/big-beautifu...
Reposted by Doug Hilton 🔭
Reposted by Doug Hilton 🔭
Guess who just discovered that Zotero integrates nicely with Google Docs?
This will make my English Composition class much simpler!
This will make my English Composition class much simpler!
June 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Guess who just discovered that Zotero integrates nicely with Google Docs?
This will make my English Composition class much simpler!
This will make my English Composition class much simpler!
Tell Congress: Save NASA Science 🔭https://www.congressweb.com/PlanetarySociety/55?framed_parent_url_id=16B9560B-5056-86BC-D9795683FC992423
Tell Congress: Save NASA Science
The current administration's 2026 budget request includes a staggering 47% cut to NASA's science programs as part of a 25% cut to NASA overall. This is an extinction-level event for the Earth and spac...
www.congressweb.com
June 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Tell Congress: Save NASA Science 🔭https://www.congressweb.com/PlanetarySociety/55?framed_parent_url_id=16B9560B-5056-86BC-D9795683FC992423
Had to cringe at trivia tonight. The emcee asked what constellation was on the Alaska state flag :( 🔭
May 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Had to cringe at trivia tonight. The emcee asked what constellation was on the Alaska state flag :( 🔭
Reposted by Doug Hilton 🔭
Another thing Trump and the GOP are destroying: our first ever legitimate chance to detect life beyond Earth. Great article at SciAm:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
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www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
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It’s Not Too Late to Save NASA’s Imperiled Search for Alien Life, but the Clock Is Ticking
NASA’s astrobiology ambitions are at risk of collapsing under the White House’s proposed budget. But your voice can make a difference
www.scientificamerican.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Another thing Trump and the GOP are destroying: our first ever legitimate chance to detect life beyond Earth. Great article at SciAm:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
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www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
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In other news, the oriole and hummingbird feeders have been hung at the house in New Hampshire. Likely a bit early, but at least we will be the chosen stop when they come through! @katlikespie.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
In other news, the oriole and hummingbird feeders have been hung at the house in New Hampshire. Likely a bit early, but at least we will be the chosen stop when they come through! @katlikespie.bsky.social
Have to write a how-to for the BlueSky #astronomy feed team to get some stuff set up locally, so why not take this opportunity to teach myself LaTeX?
April 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Have to write a how-to for the BlueSky #astronomy feed team to get some stuff set up locally, so why not take this opportunity to teach myself LaTeX?
Fascinating article about the discovery of the ashes of Willy Ley, a prophet of space travel. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/n...
Willy Ley Was a Prophet of Space Travel. His Ashes Were Found in a Basement. (Gift Article)
During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten in a co-op on the Upper West Side?
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Fascinating article about the discovery of the ashes of Willy Ley, a prophet of space travel. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/n...
France is joining Australia (and I’m sure many others - haven’t seen actual reporting) in openly recruiting American scientists, many from our TOP institutions. #science
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
First US 'refugee scientists' to arrive in France in weeks, university says
The first researchers fleeing US spending cuts imposed by President Donald Trump are to start work at a French university in June.
www.rfi.fr
April 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
France is joining Australia (and I’m sure many others - haven’t seen actual reporting) in openly recruiting American scientists, many from our TOP institutions. #science
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
More #citizenscience for #exoplanet research!
This is a light curve of Kepler 17-b analyzed using data from the NASA Exoplanet Watch program, and the EXOTIC computer program to analyze about 85 images from 2006-12-08.
This is a light curve of Kepler 17-b analyzed using data from the NASA Exoplanet Watch program, and the EXOTIC computer program to analyze about 85 images from 2006-12-08.
April 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
More #citizenscience for #exoplanet research!
This is a light curve of Kepler 17-b analyzed using data from the NASA Exoplanet Watch program, and the EXOTIC computer program to analyze about 85 images from 2006-12-08.
This is a light curve of Kepler 17-b analyzed using data from the NASA Exoplanet Watch program, and the EXOTIC computer program to analyze about 85 images from 2006-12-08.
🔭 This deeply saddens me as an aspiring astrophysicist.
About the leaked NASA budget proposal that kills an almost-ready-to-launch flagship mission: "It sets back a program that is clearly the leading program in the world—in a historic fashion. You take that program and shoot it through the head."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
NASA’s Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. Trump Wants to Kill It and Other Vital Science
Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
www.scientificamerican.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
🔭 This deeply saddens me as an aspiring astrophysicist.
@drbecky.bsky.social once again does a fantastic job explaining why the reported observation of DMS in the atmosphere of K2-18b is NOT the sign of alien life the media is making it out to be. #astronomy
www.youtube.com/shorts/zPYHP...
www.youtube.com/shorts/zPYHP...
Did JWST find LIFE on the exoplanet K2-18b?! #science #astrophysics #astronomy
YouTube video by Dr. Becky
www.youtube.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
@drbecky.bsky.social once again does a fantastic job explaining why the reported observation of DMS in the atmosphere of K2-18b is NOT the sign of alien life the media is making it out to be. #astronomy
www.youtube.com/shorts/zPYHP...
www.youtube.com/shorts/zPYHP...
When translations fail…
April 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
When translations fail…
Yes, this is how I do all my #astronomy homework.
April 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Yes, this is how I do all my #astronomy homework.
#exoplanets - the planet emoji has been deprecated from the Astronomy feed...
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Uhhhh so did all my Harvard colleagues just have their grants frozen?! SAO, Chandra, HCO - how’s everyone doing?!? 😬
April 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
#exoplanets - the planet emoji has been deprecated from the Astronomy feed...
Reposted by Doug Hilton 🔭
Since we’re all talking about it I want to blow up a real female space pioneer, Mae Jemison, an actual astronaut. She’s a graduate of Stanford and Cornel Medical School, served in the peace corps, started an educational nonprofit, and worked for the CDC researching vaccines. That’s a woman in space
April 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Since we’re all talking about it I want to blow up a real female space pioneer, Mae Jemison, an actual astronaut. She’s a graduate of Stanford and Cornel Medical School, served in the peace corps, started an educational nonprofit, and worked for the CDC researching vaccines. That’s a woman in space