Jason Wang
@thejason.wang
Astronomer. I take images of extrasolar planets. Sometimes I make GIFs of them. Professor at Northwestern/CIERA. jasonwang.space
Beautiful image!
Proud supervisor moment: #LeidenObservatory graduate student Richelle van Capelleveen led one of two papers on our discovery of WISPIT 2b, a 5 Jupiter mass exoplanet clearing a path in a circumstellar disk. Laird Close and his team saw it in H-alpha, indicating gas accretion #astrodon 🔭 🧪
August 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Beautiful image!
Does anyone else see Van Leeuwen merchandise (from the ice cream brand) and think why there's merch for the Hipparcos astrometry catalog?
August 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Does anyone else see Van Leeuwen merchandise (from the ice cream brand) and think why there's merch for the Hipparcos astrometry catalog?
I'm apparently experiencing an adrenaline rush from a grad student in my group giving a talk at a conference I'm not even at?
July 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I'm apparently experiencing an adrenaline rush from a grad student in my group giving a talk at a conference I'm not even at?
Not at #HWO25 but had to watch the Youtube stream to see the coolest version of the HR 8799 orbit movie from @bmacastro.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Not at #HWO25 but had to watch the Youtube stream to see the coolest version of the HR 8799 orbit movie from @bmacastro.bsky.social
Every time I blink, Roman gets even closer to launch!
Nancy Grace Roman Soace telescope getting ready for launch
(Left is the telescope + instrument carrier + spacecraft; the solar panel is on the right)
(Left is the telescope + instrument carrier + spacecraft; the solar panel is on the right)
July 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Every time I blink, Roman gets even closer to launch!
The 51 Peg b postdoctoral fellowship is out and Northwestern is one of the possible host institutions. Come join us! More information about the range of planetary astronomy research and other opportunities (like PI of Keck proposals) here: ciera.northwestern.edu/opportunitie....
July 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The 51 Peg b postdoctoral fellowship is out and Northwestern is one of the possible host institutions. Come join us! More information about the range of planetary astronomy research and other opportunities (like PI of Keck proposals) here: ciera.northwestern.edu/opportunitie....
Help us decide how to allocate ~2200 hours of Roman Space Telescope time! The Roman Coronagraph team is soliciting white papers to get community input on how to use our observing time (reminder, there is no GO call for the Coronagraph).
If you need more details about the Roman Coronagraph.. (1/2)
If you need more details about the Roman Coronagraph.. (1/2)
June 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Help us decide how to allocate ~2200 hours of Roman Space Telescope time! The Roman Coronagraph team is soliciting white papers to get community input on how to use our observing time (reminder, there is no GO call for the Coronagraph).
If you need more details about the Roman Coronagraph.. (1/2)
If you need more details about the Roman Coronagraph.. (1/2)
We're looking to hire a director of operations for CIERA! Consider applying if you're interested in a position in astronomy where you enable others to do research.
We're hiring! CIERA at Northwestern seeks a PhD-level Director of Operations to lead at the intersection of astronomy, data science & engineering. $100–118k, faculty title, great benefits. Apply by July 11!
🔗 bit.ly/4mVzEhv
#AcademicJobs #Astrophysics #Leadership
🔗 bit.ly/4mVzEhv
#AcademicJobs #Astrophysics #Leadership
June 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
We're looking to hire a director of operations for CIERA! Consider applying if you're interested in a position in astronomy where you enable others to do research.
Loading up webbpsf to get the inside scoop
i will be releasing one (1) pixel of our coronagraphic image of this cool* planet each day, up until our AAS 246 press release on tuesday. you can get a sneak peek if you come see my talk on monday. i will not be stopped.
*literally
*literally
June 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭
May 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭
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*speechless horror*
(Guys the NASA Exoplanet Archive is in this box. My job is in this box.)
(Guys the NASA Exoplanet Archive is in this box. My job is in this box.)
May 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
*speechless horror*
(Guys the NASA Exoplanet Archive is in this box. My job is in this box.)
(Guys the NASA Exoplanet Archive is in this box. My job is in this box.)
Just coming down from the adrenaline rush of participating in the public comment period of my town's board meeting.
May 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Just coming down from the adrenaline rush of participating in the public comment period of my town's board meeting.
When schools on semesters are finishing up but you have 4 weeks left in the quarter.
squidward from spongebob squarepants looks out a window
ALT: squidward from spongebob squarepants looks out a window
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May 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
When schools on semesters are finishing up but you have 4 weeks left in the quarter.
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Postdoc job Ad!
Want to apply the latest technologies in laser combs and high-speed detector arrays for pushing heterodyne interferometry? Come to Ann Arbor to work with Prof Cundiff and me!
Please repost this to help spread the word.
Best to apply by Mar 31:
apply.interfolio.com/162289
Want to apply the latest technologies in laser combs and high-speed detector arrays for pushing heterodyne interferometry? Come to Ann Arbor to work with Prof Cundiff and me!
Please repost this to help spread the word.
Best to apply by Mar 31:
apply.interfolio.com/162289
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March 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Postdoc job Ad!
Want to apply the latest technologies in laser combs and high-speed detector arrays for pushing heterodyne interferometry? Come to Ann Arbor to work with Prof Cundiff and me!
Please repost this to help spread the word.
Best to apply by Mar 31:
apply.interfolio.com/162289
Want to apply the latest technologies in laser combs and high-speed detector arrays for pushing heterodyne interferometry? Come to Ann Arbor to work with Prof Cundiff and me!
Please repost this to help spread the word.
Best to apply by Mar 31:
apply.interfolio.com/162289
AAS has a helpful page for contacting your congresspeople on the status of astronomy funding in the US: aas.org/advocacy/get...
Action Alert 2025 | American Astronomical Society
aas.org
February 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
AAS has a helpful page for contacting your congresspeople on the status of astronomy funding in the US: aas.org/advocacy/get...
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The 7th annual Other Worlds Laboratory (OWL) Exoplanet Summer Program is now accepting applications for our 3-week workshop in late July 2025.
We seek to foster collaborations in exoplanet science with this workshop on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
Applications are due March 15:
owl.ucsc.edu/summer/
We seek to foster collaborations in exoplanet science with this workshop on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
Applications are due March 15:
owl.ucsc.edu/summer/
Summer 2025
The Other Worlds Laboratory (OWL) at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) will soon be accepting applications for the seventh annual Exoplanet Summer Program (ESP), from July 14 – …
owl.ucsc.edu
February 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The 7th annual Other Worlds Laboratory (OWL) Exoplanet Summer Program is now accepting applications for our 3-week workshop in late July 2025.
We seek to foster collaborations in exoplanet science with this workshop on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
Applications are due March 15:
owl.ucsc.edu/summer/
We seek to foster collaborations in exoplanet science with this workshop on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
Applications are due March 15:
owl.ucsc.edu/summer/
Very excited to share that I was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow! Really thankful to all my mentors, colleagues, collaborators, and my amazing research group. Wouldn't have been possible with all of them!
🎉Congrats to the 126 early-career scientists who have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship this year! These exceptional scholars are drawn from 51 institutions across the US and Canada, and represent the next generation of groundbreaking researchers. sloan.org/fellowships/...
February 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Very excited to share that I was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow! Really thankful to all my mentors, colleagues, collaborators, and my amazing research group. Wouldn't have been possible with all of them!
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A cosmic love story? In a new study, CIERA graduate student Fulya Kıroğlu discovers that binary black holes formed in crowded star clusters align their spins - in a seemingly choreographed dance - before merging. Learn more: bit.ly/cieravalentine
📹: Jamie Lombardi / Allegheny College
📹: Jamie Lombardi / Allegheny College
February 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
A cosmic love story? In a new study, CIERA graduate student Fulya Kıroğlu discovers that binary black holes formed in crowded star clusters align their spins - in a seemingly choreographed dance - before merging. Learn more: bit.ly/cieravalentine
📹: Jamie Lombardi / Allegheny College
📹: Jamie Lombardi / Allegheny College
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Our second Picture an Astronomer public lecture -- in person (Chicago) and online Friday!
Hear @astrokatie.com talk about the end of the Universe!
More information + registration at pictureanastronomer.github.io/lectures/
🔭🧪👩🔬
Hear @astrokatie.com talk about the end of the Universe!
More information + registration at pictureanastronomer.github.io/lectures/
🔭🧪👩🔬
February 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Our second Picture an Astronomer public lecture -- in person (Chicago) and online Friday!
Hear @astrokatie.com talk about the end of the Universe!
More information + registration at pictureanastronomer.github.io/lectures/
🔭🧪👩🔬
Hear @astrokatie.com talk about the end of the Universe!
More information + registration at pictureanastronomer.github.io/lectures/
🔭🧪👩🔬
Final week to apply for the Code/Astro workshop! Come learn about open-source software development in Python.
Hey bluesky! Do you want to develop your own open-source software in Python? Apply to attend Code/Astro!
Website: semaphorep.github.io/codeastro/
Scroll all the way down for the application link. :) Apps are due Feb 1! (1/2)
Website: semaphorep.github.io/codeastro/
Scroll all the way down for the application link. :) Apps are due Feb 1! (1/2)
Program Description
A Software Engineering Workshop for Astronomy
semaphorep.github.io
January 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Final week to apply for the Code/Astro workshop! Come learn about open-source software development in Python.
Reposted by Jason Wang
Our Picture an Astronomer series starts in just over a week! Free to attend (in person in Chicago and online) and an incredible opportunity to engage directly with the scientists behind cutting edge astrophysics research.
More info (including registration) at pictureanastronomer.github.io
🔭🧪👩🔬
More info (including registration) at pictureanastronomer.github.io
🔭🧪👩🔬
January 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Our Picture an Astronomer series starts in just over a week! Free to attend (in person in Chicago and online) and an incredible opportunity to engage directly with the scientists behind cutting edge astrophysics research.
More info (including registration) at pictureanastronomer.github.io
🔭🧪👩🔬
More info (including registration) at pictureanastronomer.github.io
🔭🧪👩🔬
The Roman Coronagraph team is soliciting input on what to do with 2200 hours on the highest contrast coronagraph ever flown! There is no open-time program, so fill out this survey on the technology demonstration and science that you think would be most interesting! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Roman Coronagraph Community Interest Survey
Context: The Coronagraph Instrument onboard the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (scheduled to launch no later than May 2027) will enable an in-space technology demonstration of a high-contrast coron...
docs.google.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The Roman Coronagraph team is soliciting input on what to do with 2200 hours on the highest contrast coronagraph ever flown! There is no open-time program, so fill out this survey on the technology demonstration and science that you think would be most interesting! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Excited to share our interdisciplinary work on developing new methods to subtract off the glare of the star to reveal fainter exoplanets. We show in simulation that we can build a full optical model of JWST/NIRCam and generate images of the star to subtract off and reveal faint planets (1/3)
January 7, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Excited to share our interdisciplinary work on developing new methods to subtract off the glare of the star to reveal fainter exoplanets. We show in simulation that we can build a full optical model of JWST/NIRCam and generate images of the star to subtract off and reveal faint planets (1/3)
Want to learn how to make your astronomy code open source? The Code/Astro workshop is happening this Aug 4-8th at Northwestern!
We typically get a strong demand so we ask those interested to fill out an application by Feb 1st. See Sarah's post below for details.
We typically get a strong demand so we ask those interested to fill out an application by Feb 1st. See Sarah's post below for details.
Hey bluesky! Do you want to develop your own open-source software in Python? Apply to attend Code/Astro!
Website: semaphorep.github.io/codeastro/
Scroll all the way down for the application link. :) Apps are due Feb 1! (1/2)
Website: semaphorep.github.io/codeastro/
Scroll all the way down for the application link. :) Apps are due Feb 1! (1/2)
Program Description
A Software Engineering Workshop for Astronomy
semaphorep.github.io
January 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Want to learn how to make your astronomy code open source? The Code/Astro workshop is happening this Aug 4-8th at Northwestern!
We typically get a strong demand so we ask those interested to fill out an application by Feb 1st. See Sarah's post below for details.
We typically get a strong demand so we ask those interested to fill out an application by Feb 1st. See Sarah's post below for details.
Duolingo is having me speak sentences about how parents-in-law tell bad jokes, while I'm at the in-laws.....
December 26, 2024 at 5:20 AM
Duolingo is having me speak sentences about how parents-in-law tell bad jokes, while I'm at the in-laws.....