Ben Lew
@astrobenlew.bsky.social
NASA Ames /BAERI postdoc, working on brown dwarf and exoplanet atmospheres
Wow, Congratulations!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
September 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Wow, Congratulations!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
Reposted by Ben Lew
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
I am not an expert in this, but this paper prefers mini-Neptune solution: arxiv.org/abs/2401.11082
JWST observations of K2-18b can be explained by a gas-rich mini-Neptune with no habitable surface
JWST recently measured the transmission spectrum of K2-18b, a habitable-zone sub-Neptune exoplanet, detecting CH$_4$ and CO$_2$ in its atmosphere. The discovery paper argued the data are best explaine...
arxiv.org
April 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I am not an expert in this, but this paper prefers mini-Neptune solution: arxiv.org/abs/2401.11082