Xueqing Chen
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Xueqing Chen
@xqchen.bsky.social
astro phd student 🌎 🪐 | aspiring science communicator and artist
https://alphalyncis.github.io/exorender/
https://space.bilibili.com/31478424?spm_id_from=333.337.0.0
My popular-science video debunking internet myths about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on the Chinese video platform Bilibili now has 50k+ views! ⬇️
【关于3I/ATLAS的所有真实科学。【天文PhD解读】】 www.bilibili.com/video/BV1JY1...
November 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Happy to share my insights on the potential of Doppler imaging with the ELT at #ExoELT last week! Also my first time at #ESO Garching!
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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It’s #ExoELT week! A week dedicated to discussing all things exoplanets and the ELT, @eso.org’s 39-m telescope coming online in 2029 😱 The size of this machine is just extraordinary. You can fit a whole VLT telescope on its Nasmyth platform 🤯
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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This photo from the Perseverance rover captured in early March, may be my favorite Mars image from this year.

It shows Mars' smaller moon Deimos over the hills of the Nili Planum region in the dark skies before dawn. 🔭

Full res: flic.kr/p/2rwUwV7

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß
October 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
this could be my new unlock screen
Dione in front of Saturn, captured by Cassini 20 years ago today on October 11, 2005 🌖🪐
October 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
very informative stuff!
How can we tell what's inside an #exoplanet? @timlichtenberg.bsky.social et al review how a planet's atmosphere interacts with its interior. Atmospheric observations can distinguish between lava worlds, water worlds, temperate surfaces or supercritical interiors. ☄️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Beautiful illustration of Enceladus ocean!
🆕 The discovery of new complex organic molecules at Saturn's #Enceladus enhances the likelihood that the moon is habitable 🪐

On Earth, these molecules are involved in chemical reaction chains that lead to the more complex molecules essential for life.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭 🧪 ☄️
October 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
very cool animation of a forming rogue planet!
eso.org ESO @eso.org · Oct 2
The findings indicate that at least some rogue planets may share a similar formation path to stars since similar bursts of accretion have been spotted in young stars before. 3/
October 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Sol 1629: Right Navcam, imaged at 15:45:43.410 (local mean solar time)
September 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
beautiful render!
A nearby, burned-out star is eating a fragment of a Pluto-like object. Only Hubble could identify that this is taking place with its unique ultraviolet vision: https://bit.ly/4mZk6sx 🔭 🧪
September 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
beautiful artist illustration
Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on supermassive black holes in the early universe that may have been hiding phases of their growth. aasnova.org/2025/09/22/a... 🔭
Are Quasars Growing in Secret?
Astrobites reports on supermassive black holes in the early universe that may have been hiding phases of their growth.
aasnova.org
September 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Reposted by Xueqing Chen
🔭 Galaxies, Stars, and Dust

Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Eder

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25082...
August 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Threw my WISE1049B Doppler maps in Blender and it came out like a stormy gas giant world!
How I did it ➡️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0aG...
#astroart #spaceart
Doppler imaging X procedural gas giant planet rendering
YouTube video by ExoRender
www.youtube.com
August 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Reposted by Xueqing Chen
An acrylic painting done in 1982 for an Earth history related 'Cosmic Calendar' that was supposed to be published by a Carl Sagan affiliated business, but the project fell apart leaving a dozen unused paintings. I have mine, including one that is yet unfinished. Here we see a Paleozoic tide pool.
August 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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The standard cartoon was pretty on point.
August 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Super excited that my first PhD paper "Global weather map reveals persistent top-of-atmosphere features on the nearest brown dwarfs" is accepted and now out on arXiv!
Check out the first multi-band weather maps of not just one, but two extrasolar worlds!
Link to paper: arxiv.org/abs/2408.09606
Global weather map reveals persistent top-of-atmosphere features...
Brown dwarfs and planetary-mass companions display rotationally modulated photometric variability, especially those near the L/T transition. This variability is commonly attributed to...
arxiv.org
August 22, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Today I gave a talk at UKEXOM 2024 about Doppler imaging of WISE 1049AB! ✨
April 11, 2024 at 5:48 PM
paranal.
March 6, 2024 at 2:28 PM