Nicholas Galitzki

Physics Prof. at UT Austin, @TexasScience. Former @FulbrightPrgrm Fellow and @UCSDcosmology Postdoc. Research focus @SimonsObs. @[email protected]

[Maximiliano Silva-Feaver @msilvafeaver]

We put the first @SimonsObs Small Aperture Telescope in its vacuum bag and on its comfy shipping pallet yesterday at @ucsdastro and then said goodbye until we meet it in its final home in Chile!

[SPIDER CMB @SPIDER_CMB]

Up up and away! SPIDER took to the skies just 20 minutes shy of the southern hemisphere summer solstice. #GoSPIDERGo #ScientificBallooning #Antarctica

[SPIDER CMB @SPIDER_CMB]

It is a flurry of activity around the high bay today, leak checking the cryostat and vacuum windows, and prepping the telescopes for installation later this weekend. #AntarcticScience #SpiderCMB

[Simons Observatory @SimonsObs]

The first LATR container is finally site-bound!!! See you in Chile!

[Nicholas Galitzki @AstroDrNick]

Finally the content we've all been waiting for, more cosmic inflation jokes! https://t.co/Ud2ufHvOtE @xkcdComic #GUT #inflation

[BICEP/Keck @BICEP_Keck]

While we've been busy removing dusty foregrounds in our hunt for cosmic inflation signals, Stanford grad student @halal_george led work together with @suzIQUV using our data & maps of neutral hydrogen emission to characterize Galactic dust #filaments. 1/6

https://t.co/fbOxNBlAHO

[Nicholas Galitzki @AstroDrNick]

@SPIDER_CMB

[Nicholas Galitzki @AstroDrNick]

Join the party in welcoming SO-UK to our efforts to understand the early universe with CMB observations. Two more SATs will expand on @SimonsObs capabilities. I'm looking forward to stronger ties and more collaboration with our partners across the pond! https://t.co/4I4j4xjagT

[SOFIA Telescope @SOFIAtelescope]

In its lifetime, SOFIA made a total of 732 nights of observations. This map shows all of SOFIA’s science flights, color coded by observation cycle.

Map data ©2022 Google, INEGI Imagery ©2022 NASA, TerraMetrics

[NaturalSciences @ UT @TexasScience]

Congrats to our faculty members who’ve earned @NSF Early Career Development Awards! 🎉
• José Alvarado, @UTPhysics
• Gregory Durrett, @UTCompSci @GregD_NLP
• Antonio Linero, @UT_Stats
• Joseph Neeman, UT Math
• Yuke Zhu, @UTCompSci @YukeZ
https://t.co/EnJG1CVmSY

[NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory @VRubinObs]

So close we can almost taste it.....okay, please don't lick the camera.

Our #LSSTCamera, the biggest digital camera in the world, is getting close to completion @SLAClab! 🎉 It's not done yet, but it's looking pretty photogenic 📸

Images: Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/@SLAClab

[Nicholas Galitzki @AstroDrNick]

Doing my first pub talk in ages tomorrow night at Darwin's Pub in Austin, TX. Come join me for Schrodinger's Pint event, Oct 4th, 7pm! https://t.co/TueivnjGbE

[SOFIA Telescope @SOFIAtelescope]

AND THAT'S A WRAP! SOFIA's flights are over, but its legacy lives on.

This month FLEW by. We hope you enjoyed learning with us! Though our flight operations are ending, we will continue to share exciting science with you. #SOFIAFinalFlight

[Nicholas Galitzki @AstroDrNick]

Holography in action with the SAT, a long awaited moment! #pumped #CMB #optics #BRock #millimetercameras

[Nicholas Galitzki @AstroDrNick]

That was a good show, and not just because I aced the quiz! Fun to learn a thing or two about exomoons and some of the big observational challenges ahead with guest @alexteachey

[Nicholas Galitzki @AstroDrNick]

Classic

[Michael J. Randall @CryoMikeyBee]

I used to laugh at the jokes that “all experimental cosmologists are just plumbers in disguise” until I found myself in the plumbing aisle buying lab supplies to fix a chilled water issue…

[Nicholas Galitzki @AstroDrNick]

Also ice climbing without protection seems risky, even for an elf, where's some of that great elven rope I've heard so much about?

[Nicholas Galitzki @AstroDrNick]

Got the bivalent booster and flu shot, ready to hit the couch and watch some #LordOfTheRings and/or #HouseOfTheDragon this weekend. Going to assume the plots are pretty simple and easy to follow in case I'm not totally awake.

[Nicholas Galitzki @AstroDrNick]

Start with LOTR, pretty sure ships float due to water displacement but what do I know.

[Nicholas Galitzki @AstroDrNick]

Ig-Nobels are out! And meese collisions are terrifying... Physics coming in 'd'awww cute' this year with studies of duckling formations. https://t.co/ZUpmJNzjoL