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Over the last several years, I’ve been working on a project to both chart the 88 constellations in Python as well as compile an “Observing Guide” to the constellations. This is just a brief summary of that work and some beautiful charts!

Just a simple farewell letter to the graduate students in the College of Arts & Sciences at CWRU summarizing all that we have accomplished over the past two years and all that we have still left to accomplish.

Academia, and graduate school specifically, is very broken. In the past three years, I have been working to improve the lives of graduate students at CWRU, but consantly reaching barriers has made me very tired.

Using new data for M101, I show how to use the method outlined in Moustakas et al. (2010) to calculate uncertainties on strong-line abundances in a statistically reasonable way.

When I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, ‘cause they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. –Neil deGrasse Tyson

Recently, a new paper came out about the detection of phosphine on Venus. What does this mean? Is there life on Venus?

The Star of Bethlehem is a celebrated sight in the history of Christianity, but what was it exactly? Was it a star, a meteor, a comet? A new theory proposed it was multiple events!