Thayne Currie
@AstroThayne
Astrophysicist @ Subaru Telescope/UTSA. Exoplanets, Direct Imaging. Empiricist. Likes scientific rigor. The Enlightenment was a good thing.
Today, we are excited to report the publication of our paper in Science on the discovery of HIP 99770 b w/ Gaia/Hipparcos astrometry & direct imaging w/ the Subaru & Keck Telescopes on Maunakea science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… @ScienceMagazine @esa @SubaruTelescope @SubaruTel_Eng 🧵
Avi Loeb vs 20 planetary scientists
Next Jubilee. Eric Weinstein vs 20 theoretical physicists.
Yes, like the "entrenched opinion" that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
The Covid 19 vaccines were a historic success, saved millions of lives and helped end the pandemic
What unpopular opinion can put you in this position??
Because everyone keeps overreaching. Americans want stronger border enforcement, no asylum loophole, a path to citizenship for the undocumented, and continued high skilled legal immigration. They do not want "immigration as reparations for colonialism". They do not want benign…
Our politics today are too much like “shirts vs skins” mentality. One has to defend their team and attack the other no matter what. We need more country over party spirit if we want to make long-term progress on most significant issues. Bipartisan solutions last.…
New COVID-19 vaccine candidate shows strong protection against multiple variants medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-c…
The Senate seems to agree :)
A future where we are out there among the planets and the stars is so inspiring!
Out-of-this-world news! 🤩 NASA picked UTSA and the Southwest Research Institute to receive $500,000 to flight test novel electrolyzer technology designed to use local resources on the moon or Mars to produce fuel, oxygen and other life support compounds needed for long-term…
The Fugitive (1993) is the best action/thriller movie ever: top 5 overall for me. Even edges out North by Northwest.
I think yesterday’s post sparked more debate than anything I have previously shared..it is probably worth a bit of clarification as I am a make nuance great again kind of guy. After this novel, I will take a break from longform for a bit. If I have one overriding political…
We are doing it wrong..America added 56 GW all of last year, most from solar... China added 93 GW in a month. Just for comparison, the last American nuclear power plant was completed in 2024. It took 11 years to build and cost $35 billion to generate ~1 GW of power.
Review on my crazy, albatross-of-a-paper is far more chill than the original one (who withdrew in a giant hissy fit before recommendation because he was mad we dared to disagree w him). Major challenge now is how to best communicate that we are in "violent agreement".
The whole @CenterForAstro and @smithsonian is delighted to welcome Rep. @ValerieFoushee, Ranking Member of the House Space & Aeronautics Subcommittee, to the @chandraxray Control Room today. GREAT visit with phenomenal questions from the Congresswoman.
In "not-entirely-unrelated news" ... the NASA-ROSES call appears to now be out: nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solic…
summary of proposed Senate funding for NASA & NSF coming out of the CJS afaik: 33.9 billion top-line number: -keeps SLS and Orion – “also funds NASA science and NOAA”, “important funding for NSF”. Will need to see the granular breakdown but looks ~flat budget vs FY24/25
SCExAO/CHARIS observing tonight ... not too bad considering the Mauna Kea Weather Center is reporting 40 mph wind speeds and we are getting up to 2" seeing