Nikitas Rodriguez-Hernandez

PGY-1 from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 Future Radiologist.

[BCM Radiology @BCM_Radiology]

Congratulations to our incoming class of 2028! We are so excited to have you join our @bcmhouston family and can’t wait for you to start your training! Enjoy the celebrations🥳🍾🎉🎊 #Match2023 @drpedrodiaz @DrEMRohren @AshleyEtchison @BerenjiAshkan

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

This isn’t the farthest back we’ve observed. Non-infrared missions like COBE & WMAP saw the universe closer to the Big Bang (~380,000 years after), when there was only microwave background radiation, but no stars or galaxies. Webb sees a few 100 million years after the Big Bang.

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

@NASA @esa @csa_asc @SpaceTelescope Yesterday, we shared the first image from Webb: galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. See the same target, viewed by @NASAHubble in 2017. Webb was able to capture this image in less than one day, while similar deep field images from Hubble can take multiple weeks.

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

@NASA @esa @csa_asc @SpaceTelescope @NASAHubble Compare Webb’s Mid-Infrared (L) & Near-Infrared (R) views. Lens flares? Nope, the spikes you see are when light from bright objects like stars is bent by the edges of the telescope. They’re less prominent in mid-infrared.

More on diffraction spikes: https://t.co/9uT2kIZP8o

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

The “Cosmic Cliffs” build on the legacy of Hubble’s imagery of the Carina Nebula, seen here. Webb’s new view gives us a rare peek into stars in their earliest, rapid stages of formation. For an individual star, this period only lasts about 50,000 to 100,000 years.

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

🌟 A star is born!

Behind the curtain of dust and gas in these “Cosmic Cliffs” are previously hidden baby stars, now uncovered by Webb. We know — this is a show-stopper. Just take a second to admire the Carina Nebula in all its glory: https://t.co/tlougFWg8B #UnfoldTheUniverse

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

Two cameras are better than one, as seen in this combined view from Webb’s NIRCam & MIRI! In the near-infrared, we see hundreds of stars and background galaxies. Meanwhile, the mid-infrared shows us dusty planet-forming disks (in red and pink) around young stars.

[NASA @NASA]

It's time. #UnfoldTheUniverse with us, and join the global watch party for the first full-color images from the world's most powerful space telescope, @NASAWebb. https://t.co/iLDER3c8k6 https://t.co/iLDER3c8k6

[Nikitas Rodriguez-Hernandez @NikitasRodz]

That Einstein Ring 🥹

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: https://t.co/tlougFWg8B

[NASA @NASA]

UPDATE: One image from @NASAWebb will be previewed today by President Biden at 5:30pm ET (21:30 UTC) ahead of the full set of full-color images & data to be revealed July 12 at 10:30am ET (14:30 UTC): https://t.co/GQefRcrO9e

Images will be posted at: https://t.co/63zxpNDi4I

[Nikitas Rodriguez-Hernandez @NikitasRodz]

Did UWorld crash?

[Nikitas Rodriguez-Hernandez @NikitasRodz]

“Go all the way.

Despite rejection and the worst odds.

And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.

If you’re going to try, go all the way.

There is no other feeling like that.

You will be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire.”

-C. Bukowski

[Nikitas Rodriguez-Hernandez @NikitasRodz]

What a rollercoaster has been this week. I'm exhausted.

[Nikitas Rodriguez-Hernandez @NikitasRodz]

I’ve been very anxious about the Match, so here are some of the drawings I have made these last couple of weeks. It helps distract me a lot and boosts my creativity, so win-win. Wishing the best of luck to everyone!

[Nikitas Rodriguez-Hernandez @NikitasRodz]

Hahaahaha this is so real

[Dr. Bryan Leyva @DrBryanLeyva]

The doctor in me struggles with meditation. I can’t “inhale deeply through my nose and feel the air filling up my heart and bones” because that’s not how breathing works 💀

[Dr. Bryan Leyva @DrBryanLeyva]

The doctor in me struggles with meditation. I can’t “inhale deeply through my nose and feel the air filling up my heart and bones” because that’s not how breathing works 💀

[MAA @maanow]

Happy #FibonacciDay from all of us at MAA! Celebrate by checking out this article from Math Horizons on the Fibonacci sequence and its applications to poetry: https://t.co/96cGaJGr2M #Fibonacci

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

Infrared Uranus, its rings and Moons captured by the monster 🔭 10 meter W. M. Keck Observatory Telescope in Hawaii

[Nikitas Rodriguez-Hernandez @NikitasRodz]

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[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

An incredible coronal mass ejection from the Sun with Earth for scale.

Credit: NASA​/​SDO