Alex Polanski • @UnivOfKansas ➡️ @LowellObs • I enjoy exoplanets and climbing rocks • Will never turn down a game of pool •
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Stephan's Quintet: From a photographic plate taken through a 6" refractor in the early 1900's to JWST.
How far we have come in just a short amount of time.
Back on this site for a bit to advertise the 4 year (!) Percival Lowell Postdoctoral Fellow applications are OPEN!! 📢📢📢
lowell.edu/about/career-oppo…
Come join us at Lowell Observatory where you'll work at a National Historic site in beautiful northern Arizona!
And if outreach is your ~passion~ we are set to open a $55 million Astronomy Discovery Center this November complete with a open air, dark sky theater!
Just took an exposure for a program that I proposed for, on my first night with a new instrument...here's to 4 years of EXPRES 🥂
$50 dollar Target desk face-lift! After 4 days of cutting sanding and painting I was starting to think it wouldn't be worth it....until I put it back together 🤩
New handmade, poplar drawer faces but the legs are original - they really hid those under green paint.
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Grad Students: Don't miss this opportunity to work on PhD-level astronomical research with IPAC scientists!
The deadline to apply for the 2025 Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship (#VGSF) is this Friday, Aug. 16.⌚
See the full project list and apply at ipac.caltech.edu/page/gradua…
ALT This graphic announces a call for applications for the 2025 IPAC Visiting Graduate Student Fellowships, where astronomy graduate students can apply to work with Caltech IPAC scientists in Pasadena, California on a six-month astronomical research project. The deadline to apply is August 16, 2024. All students with U.S. citizenship, national, or permanent resident status by the application deadline are eligible. Browse the research projects and apply at https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/page/graduate-fellowship-2025.
