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Dr Libby Jones
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Infrared Astronomer 🔭 - space dust and stars in local galaxies.
Webb Fellow @ UK Astronomy Technology Centre
Love sports, history, 🐶 and UK politics.
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What a view from the observatory this morning
Royal Observatory Edinburgh in the sunsing with the top of Arthur's Seat visable above a sea of clouds.
October 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Reading the RAS demographic survey for 2023. 🔭
Rather surprised that there is some major difference in JWST usage between genders give the dual anonymous proposal proces.
Stats in a survey 10% of women while 20% of men use JWST and SDSS.
July 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Please post below - Pic of me at Jodrell Bank as an example
A woman with her hands in the air with the Lovell radio telescope in the background. This is a big white structure supporting a 76m dish pointing directly upwards. The sky is grey, the grass is green.
May 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Want to know the latest cool #jwst results from your favourite Wolf-Rayet star. You know the one the star with all those dust rings. Tune into the #AAS245 press conference starting soon!
WR 140. A pink star with 17 rings expanding outwards like a tree. These dust rings only appear on one side and are caused by a binary companion orbiting every 8 years.
January 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Very proud supervisor moment, with Conor Nally awarded #HST time to observe the bar of NGC 6822 with WFC3/IR medium-band filters to match our #JWST footprint. 
This was the first proposal he had written and was the only opportunity to get this data!
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The bar of the irregular galaxy NGC 6822 observed with JWST. This is a densely packed star field, with many red stars present. There is a small patch of diffuse red emission, which is a site of star formation called Spitzer I. There is a very small clump of white resolved stars to the left of this patch which is the globular cluster, Hubble VII.
January 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Here is one of my JWST MIRI MRS spectral plots. This did not make the final paper cut but I love this as it shows how great the MRS spectra match Spitzer for broad features, but knocks Spitzer's socks off with the emission lines and low contrast features detected.
Science and progress in action!
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The mid-infrared spectra (Intensity as a function of wavelength) of a planetary nebular as observed by Spitzer at low and high-resolution and the JWST MRS. The spectra rise to the red (longer wavelengths) and have broad features from SiC dust and PAHs and many sharp narrow features from atomic emission lines. These are more numerous and narrower in the MRS spectra.
November 19, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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We have detected brown dwarfs for the first time in another galaxy. These are failed stars 15 to 75 times the size of Jupiter.

As a bonus to the amazing science the image is gorgeous too! 🔭

esawebb.org/news/weic2425/
A stunning image of the star cluster NGC 682 taken with JWST. It looks like a multicoloured trex mouth rotated 90 degrees.
October 23, 2024 at 3:05 PM