Aswin Suresh
@aswin-s36.bsky.social
Astronomy grad at Northwestern/CIERA - Supernovae and transients 💜
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🚨 BREAKTHROUGH ASTRONOMY ALERT! CIERA's Charlie Kilpatrick and Aswin Suresh have used the James Webb Space Telescope to spot something never seen before: The reddest, dustiest red supergiant star ever caught right before it exploded. bit.ly/4o6nuBV
Webb Telescope unveils doomed star hidden in dust
A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers has captured the most detailed glimpse yet of a doomed star before it exploded.
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the international team...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH ASTRONOMY ALERT! CIERA's Charlie Kilpatrick and Aswin Suresh have used the James Webb Space Telescope to spot something never seen before: The reddest, dustiest red supergiant star ever caught right before it exploded. bit.ly/4o6nuBV
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
September 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
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🚨 Our discovery of the brightest fast radio burst ever, RBFLOAT, made headlines at CNN! 📰✨ See how CIERA scientists helped trace this cosmic flash with extraordinary precision.
🔗https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/science/brightest-fast-radio-burst
#FRB #Astronomy #CIERA
🔗https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/science/brightest-fast-radio-burst
#FRB #Astronomy #CIERA
August 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🚨 Our discovery of the brightest fast radio burst ever, RBFLOAT, made headlines at CNN! 📰✨ See how CIERA scientists helped trace this cosmic flash with extraordinary precision.
🔗https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/science/brightest-fast-radio-burst
#FRB #Astronomy #CIERA
🔗https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/science/brightest-fast-radio-burst
#FRB #Astronomy #CIERA
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A major clue in the mystery of Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) 🔍💥
An int'l team led by
@NorthwesternU
&
@uniofleicester
finds FXTs may come from trapped jets in dying stars — bridging FXTs, GRBs & supernovae.
Details: bit.ly/4kwtRfL
#Astrophysics #CIERA #JWST
An int'l team led by
@NorthwesternU
&
@uniofleicester
finds FXTs may come from trapped jets in dying stars — bridging FXTs, GRBs & supernovae.
Details: bit.ly/4kwtRfL
#Astrophysics #CIERA #JWST
Supernova’s ‘trapped’ jet reveals source of fast X-ray transient
An international team of astrophysicists, led by Northwestern University and the University of Leicester in England, has uncovered a possible origin of fast X-ray transients (FXTs) — mysterious, fleet...
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July 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
A major clue in the mystery of Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) 🔍💥
An int'l team led by
@NorthwesternU
&
@uniofleicester
finds FXTs may come from trapped jets in dying stars — bridging FXTs, GRBs & supernovae.
Details: bit.ly/4kwtRfL
#Astrophysics #CIERA #JWST
An int'l team led by
@NorthwesternU
&
@uniofleicester
finds FXTs may come from trapped jets in dying stars — bridging FXTs, GRBs & supernovae.
Details: bit.ly/4kwtRfL
#Astrophysics #CIERA #JWST
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Congratulations to CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Lindsey Kwok and graduate student Jillian Rastinejad, for receiving highly competitive NASA Postdoctoral Fellowships!
CIERA researchers named as NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship recipients
The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) continues to support top early-career astrophysicists, awarding 24 new fellowships in its competitive 2025 class. This program allows scientists to conduct in...
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April 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Congratulations to CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Lindsey Kwok and graduate student Jillian Rastinejad, for receiving highly competitive NASA Postdoctoral Fellowships!