An Astronomers World — Jackie Faherty

Insight into an Astronomer and Educators world

Welcome to my first post! I’ll explain here what you can expect to get from this space. The hot take is you’ll get a lot of great insights into the world of an Astronomer and Educator.

Jackie FahertyMarch 8, 2021Astronomy, Education, Visualization, Citizen Science, Museum

A Visual Tour of Stellar Companions Near the Sun

Recent science results by graduate student Kareem El-Badry reveals a catalog of over 1.3 million stars co-moving with each other in the Galaxy. The catalog makes for some amazing visualization renderings.

Jackie FahertyMarch 8, 2021Astronomy, Stars, Comoving, Gaia, Astrometry, Visualization, Astronomer, Binary, OpenSpace Comment

The Verge Science Makes a Video of the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Project

The Verge Science site has featured the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project in a lengthy video. Four citizen scientists were featured and the video gives great context to our mission goals.