Dr. Steve Goldman
@stevegoldman.bsky.social
Astrophysicist & Software Engineer for the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes @ The Space Telescope Science Institute.
Views are my own.
Views are my own.
When circulating a new paper to collaborators around the holidays is it better to do it:
- before the holidays?
- after the holidays?
- not at all
Thoughts? 🤔
- before the holidays?
- after the holidays?
- not at all
Thoughts? 🤔
November 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
When circulating a new paper to collaborators around the holidays is it better to do it:
- before the holidays?
- after the holidays?
- not at all
Thoughts? 🤔
- before the holidays?
- after the holidays?
- not at all
Thoughts? 🤔
I made my son a Hubble Space Telescope, and he seems to like it 😊
October 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I made my son a Hubble Space Telescope, and he seems to like it 😊
Reposted by Dr. Steve Goldman
Travel to a dying star!
Known as WOH G64, this object is roughly 2000 times bigger than our Sun and lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, 160 000 light-years from us. It is in the last stages before it becomes a supernova 😯
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2417/ 🔭
Known as WOH G64, this object is roughly 2000 times bigger than our Sun and lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, 160 000 light-years from us. It is in the last stages before it becomes a supernova 😯
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2417/ 🔭
August 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Travel to a dying star!
Known as WOH G64, this object is roughly 2000 times bigger than our Sun and lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, 160 000 light-years from us. It is in the last stages before it becomes a supernova 😯
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2417/ 🔭
Known as WOH G64, this object is roughly 2000 times bigger than our Sun and lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, 160 000 light-years from us. It is in the last stages before it becomes a supernova 😯
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2417/ 🔭
My wife and I won the “Adult Science Fair” at our locally brewery.
How far down my CV should I add this victory?
I’m thinking directly below my name.
How far down my CV should I add this victory?
I’m thinking directly below my name.
August 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
My wife and I won the “Adult Science Fair” at our locally brewery.
How far down my CV should I add this victory?
I’m thinking directly below my name.
How far down my CV should I add this victory?
I’m thinking directly below my name.
Reposted by Dr. Steve Goldman
The core portion of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully completed vibration testing, ensuring it will withstand the extreme shaking experienced during launch: go.nasa.gov/4jNWjcK 🔭 🧪
June 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The core portion of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully completed vibration testing, ensuring it will withstand the extreme shaking experienced during launch: go.nasa.gov/4jNWjcK 🔭 🧪
Oh my god, it’s:
“the straight and narrow path”
and not
“the straightened arrow path”
How am I just learning this?
“the straight and narrow path”
and not
“the straightened arrow path”
How am I just learning this?
April 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Oh my god, it’s:
“the straight and narrow path”
and not
“the straightened arrow path”
How am I just learning this?
“the straight and narrow path”
and not
“the straightened arrow path”
How am I just learning this?
Reposted by Dr. Steve Goldman
I'm so excited I'll be starting as a Hubble + Miller fellow at Berkeley this Fall!
I've never lived in an area with a large population of Asian-Americans so it's always been my dream to move to California. Can't believe it's actually happening this year 😱
science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
I've never lived in an area with a large population of Asian-Americans so it's always been my dream to move to California. Can't believe it's actually happening this year 😱
science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2025 - NASA Science
The highly competitive NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) names 24 new fellows to its 2025 class.
science.nasa.gov
March 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I'm so excited I'll be starting as a Hubble + Miller fellow at Berkeley this Fall!
I've never lived in an area with a large population of Asian-Americans so it's always been my dream to move to California. Can't believe it's actually happening this year 😱
science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
I've never lived in an area with a large population of Asian-Americans so it's always been my dream to move to California. Can't believe it's actually happening this year 😱
science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
Reposted by Dr. Steve Goldman
The #JWST Cycle 4 General Observer Program selections have been made. Find out what JWST will study in its fourth year of science, which begins July 1, 2025: ow.ly/k2T250VfMlR
March 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Some people aren’t immediately astonished by images like this, and that fact hurts me inside.
Astronomers using #NASAWebb identified two stars that generate carbon-rich dust in our Milky Way. When the stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 swing by one another on their elongated orbits, their winds collide and produce dust that expands outward: webbtelescope.pub/42bqgOP #AAS245 🔭 🧪
January 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Some people aren’t immediately astonished by images like this, and that fact hurts me inside.
New paper✨
Some of the dustiest evolved stars might not lose as much mass or produce as much dust as we thought.
It’s looking like they might have equatorially enhanced dust envelopes 🍩 possibly shaped by binary companions💫.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.027...
@anywaythewind.bsky.social
#astronomy #stars
Some of the dustiest evolved stars might not lose as much mass or produce as much dust as we thought.
It’s looking like they might have equatorially enhanced dust envelopes 🍩 possibly shaped by binary companions💫.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.027...
@anywaythewind.bsky.social
#astronomy #stars
Equatorial Enhancement in the Dustiest OH/IR Stars in the Galactic Bulge
We have detected the 10 um silicate feature and the 11.3 um crystalline forsterite feature in absorption in 21 oxygen-rich AGB stars in the Galactic Bulge. The depths of the 10 um feature indicate hig...
arxiv.org
January 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
New paper✨
Some of the dustiest evolved stars might not lose as much mass or produce as much dust as we thought.
It’s looking like they might have equatorially enhanced dust envelopes 🍩 possibly shaped by binary companions💫.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.027...
@anywaythewind.bsky.social
#astronomy #stars
Some of the dustiest evolved stars might not lose as much mass or produce as much dust as we thought.
It’s looking like they might have equatorially enhanced dust envelopes 🍩 possibly shaped by binary companions💫.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.027...
@anywaythewind.bsky.social
#astronomy #stars
My favorite citation was when a group cited my dusty wind speed measurements when discussing the weather patterns in the Helmand Basin, Iran.
We measured the wind speeds around red giant stars.
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021JESS...
We measured the wind speeds around red giant stars.
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021JESS...
Assessment and forecasting spatial pattern changes of dust and wind speed using ARIMA and ANNs model in Helmand Basin, Iran
The aim of this study is to assess and forecast spatial pattern changes of dust and wind speed in Hamun-e Helmand basin, Sistan region. This region has the most dust events and the strongest winds, in...
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
December 14, 2024 at 8:42 PM
My favorite citation was when a group cited my dusty wind speed measurements when discussing the weather patterns in the Helmand Basin, Iran.
We measured the wind speeds around red giant stars.
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021JESS...
We measured the wind speeds around red giant stars.
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021JESS...
The more I study dust, the more I start to agree with Daniel Craig.
December 14, 2024 at 8:31 PM
The more I study dust, the more I start to agree with Daniel Craig.
My wife and I need to settle an argument.
True or false: Pasta is noodles
True or false: Pasta is noodles
December 4, 2024 at 4:26 AM
My wife and I need to settle an argument.
True or false: Pasta is noodles
True or false: Pasta is noodles
Has anyone else pointed out the fact that the place where they were secretly testing the new stealth bomber was at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center . . . and there’s a not so hidden stealth bomber in THE LOGO!
November 26, 2024 at 6:48 AM
Has anyone else pointed out the fact that the place where they were secretly testing the new stealth bomber was at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center . . . and there’s a not so hidden stealth bomber in THE LOGO!
One of the two original designs for the James Webb Space Telescope was for it to be a MOON-BASED!
The instruments would be underground, to protect against radiation and meteorites, and the rails in the image were for the hanger-like shield.
The instruments would be underground, to protect against radiation and meteorites, and the rails in the image were for the hanger-like shield.
November 26, 2024 at 6:00 AM
One of the two original designs for the James Webb Space Telescope was for it to be a MOON-BASED!
The instruments would be underground, to protect against radiation and meteorites, and the rails in the image were for the hanger-like shield.
The instruments would be underground, to protect against radiation and meteorites, and the rails in the image were for the hanger-like shield.
Since Trump planned a hasty withdrawal of Afghanistan for Biden’s first months in office I feel like it’s only fair if Biden starts planning a withdrawal of say . . . Guantanamo?
November 23, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Since Trump planned a hasty withdrawal of Afghanistan for Biden’s first months in office I feel like it’s only fair if Biden starts planning a withdrawal of say . . . Guantanamo?
Even in my research, I can’t help but feel a dark force is amassing its armies.
November 21, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Even in my research, I can’t help but feel a dark force is amassing its armies.
Check out the new press release on our spectacular new VLTI/GRAVITY images of the dusty red supergiant WOH G64!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=XYdX...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=XYdX...
November 21, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Check out the new press release on our spectacular new VLTI/GRAVITY images of the dusty red supergiant WOH G64!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=XYdX...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=XYdX...
Today we got new Hubble imaging data of the dwarf galaxy DDO 68!
We’ll use it to better understand how sun-sized stars contributed to the regeneration of the universe, and whether they created the dust that we see at high redshift.
spacetelescopelive.org/hubble?obsId...
We’ll use it to better understand how sun-sized stars contributed to the regeneration of the universe, and whether they created the dust that we see at high redshift.
spacetelescopelive.org/hubble?obsId...
Space Telescope Live
Explore official, up-to-date information on current, past, and upcoming investigations by NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.
spacetelescopelive.org
November 15, 2024 at 4:25 AM
Today we got new Hubble imaging data of the dwarf galaxy DDO 68!
We’ll use it to better understand how sun-sized stars contributed to the regeneration of the universe, and whether they created the dust that we see at high redshift.
spacetelescopelive.org/hubble?obsId...
We’ll use it to better understand how sun-sized stars contributed to the regeneration of the universe, and whether they created the dust that we see at high redshift.
spacetelescopelive.org/hubble?obsId...
I went to a talk with friends by UFO guy Louis Elizondo. I got to ask the final question of the night and used it to pressure him on “anti-gravity”. The whole experience left me with mixed feeling. They have so much enthusiasm for UFOs, but also astronomy. I feel we need to reach out more to them.
November 10, 2024 at 6:56 PM
I went to a talk with friends by UFO guy Louis Elizondo. I got to ask the final question of the night and used it to pressure him on “anti-gravity”. The whole experience left me with mixed feeling. They have so much enthusiasm for UFOs, but also astronomy. I feel we need to reach out more to them.
Reposted by Dr. Steve Goldman
"Symbiotic stars like HM Sge are rare in our galaxy, and witnessing a nova-like explosion is even rarer. This unique event is a treasure for astrophysicists spanning decades," said STScI’s Steven Goldman. (5/5) 🔭 🧪
NASA's Hubble Finds Surprises Around a Star That Erupted 40 Years Ago
hubblesite.org
June 12, 2024 at 4:36 PM
"Symbiotic stars like HM Sge are rare in our galaxy, and witnessing a nova-like explosion is even rarer. This unique event is a treasure for astrophysicists spanning decades," said STScI’s Steven Goldman. (5/5) 🔭 🧪
Some stars will slurp up their neighbors, explode, and then they'll both pretend like nothing happened (Goldman et al. 2024)
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXi...
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXi...
December 8, 2023 at 9:06 PM
Some stars will slurp up their neighbors, explode, and then they'll both pretend like nothing happened (Goldman et al. 2024)
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXi...
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXi...