Hinna
@hinsterrr.bsky.social
PhD Candidate | Exoplanet atmospheres 🪐
What do you mean I saw PLATO with my own eyes today?? 🫢🫨 #ESAopenday #exoplanet
October 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
What do you mean I saw PLATO with my own eyes today?? 🫢🫨 #ESAopenday #exoplanet
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Oooh the Nobel Prize is out today, so it's time for my yearly round of ignoring that news and reading about many of the women who were snubbed of the prize in the past and who the Nobel Prize committee refuses to apologise for. 🧪🔭
October 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Oooh the Nobel Prize is out today, so it's time for my yearly round of ignoring that news and reading about many of the women who were snubbed of the prize in the past and who the Nobel Prize committee refuses to apologise for. 🧪🔭
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imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
September 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
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Welcome, Plato! 🤗
On 1 September, the spacecraft arrived in the Netherlands by boat from Germany via the Rhine River.
In the coming weeks, engineers will add the sunshield & solar arrays and carry out tests to confirm Plato is ready for launch 🚀
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭 #Exoplanets
On 1 September, the spacecraft arrived in the Netherlands by boat from Germany via the Rhine River.
In the coming weeks, engineers will add the sunshield & solar arrays and carry out tests to confirm Plato is ready for launch 🚀
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭 #Exoplanets
September 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Welcome, Plato! 🤗
On 1 September, the spacecraft arrived in the Netherlands by boat from Germany via the Rhine River.
In the coming weeks, engineers will add the sunshield & solar arrays and carry out tests to confirm Plato is ready for launch 🚀
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭 #Exoplanets
On 1 September, the spacecraft arrived in the Netherlands by boat from Germany via the Rhine River.
In the coming weeks, engineers will add the sunshield & solar arrays and carry out tests to confirm Plato is ready for launch 🚀
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭 #Exoplanets
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Farewell, Gaia! 🥹 👏
The final commands have been sent to Gaia. This is the last time that the spacecraft will ever hear from its team on Earth. The final commands include those to shut down the spacecraft's communication systems and central computer.
March 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Farewell, Gaia! 🥹 👏
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This is what Firefly's Blue Ghost lander saw as the Sun set on Sunday.
The Sun is the bright lightsource at the horizon.
At top is Earth (you can't quite tell it's gibbous).
And that bright star between the two is Venus. I have never seen a photo of Venus from the surface of the Moon before.
The Sun is the bright lightsource at the horizon.
At top is Earth (you can't quite tell it's gibbous).
And that bright star between the two is Venus. I have never seen a photo of Venus from the surface of the Moon before.
March 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This is what Firefly's Blue Ghost lander saw as the Sun set on Sunday.
The Sun is the bright lightsource at the horizon.
At top is Earth (you can't quite tell it's gibbous).
And that bright star between the two is Venus. I have never seen a photo of Venus from the surface of the Moon before.
The Sun is the bright lightsource at the horizon.
At top is Earth (you can't quite tell it's gibbous).
And that bright star between the two is Venus. I have never seen a photo of Venus from the surface of the Moon before.
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🌍 Happy #Equinox! On 20 March 2025 at 09:01 GMT/10:01 CET, just a few moments ago, the Sun appeared directly above Earth's equator - with our planet neither tilting towards nor away from the Sun!
(pic: @eumetsat.int, processed by ESA/S. Proud)
See flic.kr/p/2qT1ZUu
(pic: @eumetsat.int, processed by ESA/S. Proud)
See flic.kr/p/2qT1ZUu
March 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🌍 Happy #Equinox! On 20 March 2025 at 09:01 GMT/10:01 CET, just a few moments ago, the Sun appeared directly above Earth's equator - with our planet neither tilting towards nor away from the Sun!
(pic: @eumetsat.int, processed by ESA/S. Proud)
See flic.kr/p/2qT1ZUu
(pic: @eumetsat.int, processed by ESA/S. Proud)
See flic.kr/p/2qT1ZUu
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Pure passion for the topic, fuelled by the experience of knowing what living with endometriosis feels like. Meet our endo research team – first up: Rachel Hosking, PhD candidate at IMAGENDO. #EndometriosisAwarenessMonth
March 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Pure passion for the topic, fuelled by the experience of knowing what living with endometriosis feels like. Meet our endo research team – first up: Rachel Hosking, PhD candidate at IMAGENDO. #EndometriosisAwarenessMonth
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Continuing on with our #EndometriosisAwarenessMonth campaign, we asked three of our researchers to explain their research in 15 words or less.
Find out more about their research on the EXPPECT website: www.exppectedinburgh.co.uk/
Find out more about their research on the EXPPECT website: www.exppectedinburgh.co.uk/
March 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Continuing on with our #EndometriosisAwarenessMonth campaign, we asked three of our researchers to explain their research in 15 words or less.
Find out more about their research on the EXPPECT website: www.exppectedinburgh.co.uk/
Find out more about their research on the EXPPECT website: www.exppectedinburgh.co.uk/
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Open this image up fully.
Look to the top right.
That's Phobos, one of the moons of Mars.
And that bright point of light?
Earth.
Look to the top right.
That's Phobos, one of the moons of Mars.
And that bright point of light?
Earth.
March 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Open this image up fully.
Look to the top right.
That's Phobos, one of the moons of Mars.
And that bright point of light?
Earth.
Look to the top right.
That's Phobos, one of the moons of Mars.
And that bright point of light?
Earth.
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Oh come ON now. This new JWST image is just ASTOUNDING.
I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it.
NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)
I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it.
NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)
January 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Oh come ON now. This new JWST image is just ASTOUNDING.
I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it.
NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)
I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it.
NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)
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Look at that terminator!
We have passed the winter solstice (9:21 UTC) for the northern hemisphere, gang!
We have passed the winter solstice (9:21 UTC) for the northern hemisphere, gang!
December 21, 2024 at 9:45 AM
Look at that terminator!
We have passed the winter solstice (9:21 UTC) for the northern hemisphere, gang!
We have passed the winter solstice (9:21 UTC) for the northern hemisphere, gang!
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December 21, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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"Reliable Detections of Atmospheres on Rocky Exoplanets with Photometric JWST Phase Curves" by Hammond et al., incl. @xoplanets.bsky.social @nichollsh.bsky.social @astrochloe.bsky.social @tgmeier.bsky.social @astrojake.bsky.social @astrolisadang.bsky.social @johannateske.bsky.social today on arXiv!
Reliable Detections of Atmospheres on Rocky Exoplanets with Photometric JWST Phase Curves
The prevalence of atmospheres on rocky planets is one of the major questions in exoplanet astronomy, but there are currently no published unambiguous detections of atmospheres on any rocky exoplanets....
arxiv.org
December 19, 2024 at 11:30 AM
"Reliable Detections of Atmospheres on Rocky Exoplanets with Photometric JWST Phase Curves" by Hammond et al., incl. @xoplanets.bsky.social @nichollsh.bsky.social @astrochloe.bsky.social @tgmeier.bsky.social @astrojake.bsky.social @astrolisadang.bsky.social @johannateske.bsky.social today on arXiv!
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WTF is it with so many movies and TV shows showing people smoking? They could just *not* do that.
December 14, 2024 at 1:03 AM
WTF is it with so many movies and TV shows showing people smoking? They could just *not* do that.
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For a talk I just made this transition plot of exoplanets with age, to show how little we know about planets in the early times. Starting with all exoplanets in the database... (1/5)
December 11, 2024 at 8:02 AM
For a talk I just made this transition plot of exoplanets with age, to show how little we know about planets in the early times. Starting with all exoplanets in the database... (1/5)
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Applications are open for MPIA summer internships! this is a fully funded opportunity, open to bachelor's and master's students anywhere in the world: www.mpia.de/en/careers/i...
Summer internships
www.mpia.de
December 9, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Applications are open for MPIA summer internships! this is a fully funded opportunity, open to bachelor's and master's students anywhere in the world: www.mpia.de/en/careers/i...
Cannot even do plane rides without being in pain. Looks like I’ll have to carry my own meals next trip 🥲 #endometriosis
December 8, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Cannot even do plane rides without being in pain. Looks like I’ll have to carry my own meals next trip 🥲 #endometriosis
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I got to write in Scientific American about one of my all-time favorite cosmic objects: Barnard 68! It's like a hole in space, except… it isn't.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
🧪🔭
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
🧪🔭
What’s Inside Our Galaxy’s Darkest Place?
Barnard 68 is often mistaken for a hole in space, but it’s actually a dense, opaque cloud of dust—for now
www.scientificamerican.com
December 6, 2024 at 3:44 PM
I got to write in Scientific American about one of my all-time favorite cosmic objects: Barnard 68! It's like a hole in space, except… it isn't.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
🧪🔭
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
🧪🔭
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Very excited to be at the opening of the Dirleton Solar Walk today - a scale model of our Solar System in the East Lothian countryside, placed over 1.2km of the John Muir Way walking route! 🪐🔭 This was a really fun project to support and I highly recommend it for those local, esp. for kids/families!
December 6, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Very excited to be at the opening of the Dirleton Solar Walk today - a scale model of our Solar System in the East Lothian countryside, placed over 1.2km of the John Muir Way walking route! 🪐🔭 This was a really fun project to support and I highly recommend it for those local, esp. for kids/families!
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I love when it's cold and I have to wear a full load of laundry to leave the house
December 4, 2024 at 2:20 AM
I love when it's cold and I have to wear a full load of laundry to leave the house
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Making my slides for the "25 Years of Science with Chandra" conference, and here's the supernova remnants imaged with Chandra in the first two years of the mission in the order they were observed! 🔭🧪 #SaveChandra
December 2, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Making my slides for the "25 Years of Science with Chandra" conference, and here's the supernova remnants imaged with Chandra in the first two years of the mission in the order they were observed! 🔭🧪 #SaveChandra
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Time-lapse of altocumulus undulatus clouds at 30x speed. I happened to catch the formation's edge as it passed by.
December 1, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Time-lapse of altocumulus undulatus clouds at 30x speed. I happened to catch the formation's edge as it passed by.
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The “Tiger Stripes” of southern Enceladus are deep ravines and connect to the subsurface ocean below. These contain the cryovolcanoes producing the water ice plumes.
December 1, 2024 at 9:43 PM
The “Tiger Stripes” of southern Enceladus are deep ravines and connect to the subsurface ocean below. These contain the cryovolcanoes producing the water ice plumes.
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Prompted by this and a need for distraction I Did Some Math. Turns out most extrasolar planets are quite cauliflower-compatible. A thread, with citations. And laboratory astrophysics. And footnotes.
December 1, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Prompted by this and a need for distraction I Did Some Math. Turns out most extrasolar planets are quite cauliflower-compatible. A thread, with citations. And laboratory astrophysics. And footnotes.