Michael Palumbo
@michael_palumbo
Astrophysicist & BBQ Enthusiast || UNC Chapel Hill Physics & Classics '18 || Penn State Astro PhD ‘24 || he/him
Four months and 29 days later, I’m done walking (for now)!
When Cuomo mouthpieces say Zohran only has 3 years experience they mean in elected office, & it’s obvious why they omit that part but it also denotes what they think politicians are for. Eviction prevention & tenant advocacy is very relevant experience, just not for their agenda
We’re still digging out of the disinvestment, mismanagement and neglect of mass transit that characterized Andrew Cuomo’s decade-plus in power.
Signal malfunction on the 7 train; @NYCTSubway rough rush hour at GCT. #NBC4NY
“I asked chatgpt” “I asked grok” I asked the diseased liver of a sacrificed lamb. We are not the same.
The entire month of May 2025 in the Sun’s atmosphere. Although the Sun produced a few large solar flares, sunspot numbers were the lowest we’ve seen since August 2022. We are likely now slowly moving towards solar minimum, but we still expect large flares throughout this decline!
This sunspot is larger than our entire planet
Today's partial eclipse from Paris in Halpha and calcium K 😎
My non-running colleagues will be THRILLED to once again hear me talk for 60 hours about people I don't know, looking for books in a forest, somewhere very far away, because a man smoked a cigarette near a gate #bm100
After multiple failed attempts, the conch was blown at 10:37. The 2025 Barkley Marathons begins in one hour. #BM100.
#TBT: This previously released image by the @NSF Daniel K. #InouyeSolarTelescope, operated by the NSO, shows the surface of the #Sun, a region of 82,500km across at a resolution of 18km. Adding Earth for scale really shows just how big - and detailed - this solar snapshot is!
It’s never been so over
#FDNY units are operating at a brush fire in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Operations are ongoing.
#CASSINI-HUYGENS #SATURN MISSION Target Name: #Saturn Start Time (YMDhms): 2012-09-19 Camera: Wide Angle FILTER_NAME = 13x MT2 + BL1 opus.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/#/instrum… NASA/JPL/j. Roger
Time lapse of Saturday's #Sun covering 5 hours of real time. A prominence flares off to the right and a large filament loop shows activity below center. 70 x 600 x 0.7 ms Ha < 0.7 Å in Lunt 40 at f/10.
The surface of the Sun at some ~5000mm focal length. I captured this image early in the morning during a spell of calm seeing conditions. Each convection cell measures approximately 1,000km (1.5 arcsec) in size. #astrophotography #telescope #sun #solar
Finally an observational tracer in disk integrated high res spectra of magnetic field strength, at least for a very active star.
This is a remarkable plot.
Trying to save my Dune 2 rewatch for when im at my lowest point and need strength.. cant let its effect on me become diluted...
My new paper is on arxiv! We surveyed ~110K stars and found a metallicity "cliff" in super-Earth formation. This one has been in the works for a while. Check it out here: arxiv.org/pdf/2407.13821
If you need me: don’t. Currently walking the PCT: share.garmin.com/michaelpalumbo
