Tom Greene

Personal account and opinions. Executive Director of IPAC and Research Professor at Caltech. Astronomer studying young stars, exoplanets, and space missions

[Tom Greene @TomPGreene]

Come on down and help us celebrate, and a big shout out to @BAESystemsInc for sponsoring the event!

[Caltech IPAC @caltechipac]

Looking forward to #AAS248 next week…and our #IPAC40 PARTY! 🥂🥳

We're celebrating 40 years of IPAC with food, drinks, activities, and merch! Join us on Wednesday, June 17 @ 6:30-8:00 p.m.

More details here: https://t.co/1BSPg2JBZP

[Caltech Astro Outreach @CaltechAstro]

Join us for a FREE afternoon of science demonstrations, solar telescopes, and public-level presentations on black holes, exoplanets, galaxies, and more. Come learn about space with scientists from Caltech, NASA JPL, Carnegie, LIGO, etc. More info at:
https://t.co/KfA6JKIYTw

[Caltech IPAC @caltechipac]

The most common types of exoplanets are oddly missing from our own solar system 🤔

Scaling K2, an ongoing project at @NExScI_IPAC, is diving into this enigma:
https://t.co/MW4fwPtnCa

[Caltech IPAC @caltechipac]

The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor — NASA’s first infrared space telescope purposely designed to discover potentially hazardous asteroids and comets — is undergoing integration and testing. 🔨 ⚙️ 🔧

https://t.co/oRbRUXnJYf

[Tom Greene @TomPGreene]

Yay IPAC!

[Caltech IPAC @caltechipac]

IPAC Annual Picnic: 40th Anniversary Edition ✨

The dessert bake-off during the picnic is IPAC’s sweetest tradition 🍰

Kevin Hardegree-Ullman’s “#ipac40 Cosmic Brownies” won first place, and Chris Gelino’s “Retro Lemon Curd Cake” won the people’s choice award!

[ExploreAstro at Caltech IPAC @ExploreAstro]

NASA's SPHEREx mission is mapping 'interstellar glaciers' across our galaxy, and these icy regions may be the origins of glaciers—and all water—on Earth 💧

https://t.co/dPgkC87J5T

[Tom Greene @TomPGreene]

@exploreplanets Thank you for your help in making this happen!

[Tom Greene @TomPGreene]

@caltechipac @LilSarcadzom @IUBloomington Welcome Brandon!

[Tom Greene @TomPGreene]

@UArizonaLPL Congratulations Mark! The Kuiper is a big prize and well deserved.

[Tom Greene @TomPGreene]

@eggpro1975 @exploreplanets Society also benefits from increased knowledge and tech spinoffs. The public wants NASA to do this work (Pew poll results), and it is a lot cheaper than mannes missions which do little space science. Zero investment from private industry in space science so far.

[Tom Greene @TomPGreene]

@eggpro1975 @exploreplanets How this is supposed to work: the Fed government invests a fairly small amount of money in space science missions, most of it going to private industry for building spacecraft. A smaller chunk goes to doing science with the mission data. Private industry benefits from the $.

[Planetary Society @exploreplanets]

Monday. We lock in. 🚀🪐

[Caltech IPAC @caltechipac]

The Visiting Graduate Student Research Fellows have landed! 🚀🔭

@AstroJayke joins us in Pasadena to work on the forward modeling of JWST's aperture mask interferometry (AMI) mode to uncover the inner regions of planetary systems. 🪐🪐🪐🛰️
More on #VGSRF: https://t.co/8KvlPOwgoh

[Tom Greene @TomPGreene]

Congratulations and a big THANK YOU to Drs. Teplitz and Paladini for being IPAC's new Head of Science Staff leaders!

[Caltech IPAC @caltechipac]

We're proud to name Harry Teplitz as IPAC’s new Head of Science Staff and Roberta Paladini as Deputy Head!👏

They will lead our scientific community by advocating for research, mentoring staff, and fostering career growth across the center.

Details: https://t.co/3j9ilavvi6

[Caltech IPAC @caltechipac]

How do you explore the most crowded area of the Milky Way? With precision and persistence 🔎

@NASARoman is gearing up to study this region with the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey. Read more about Roman's observing plans & IPAC's role here: https://t.co/Cil3GCMYnS

[Michael Gillon @Michael59607421]

Breaking: first JWST thermal phase curves of temperate rocky exoplanets show no thick atmospheres around TRAPPIST-1 b and c

https://t.co/6p5JBpRBo5

https://t.co/rg9CtAIljQ

#JWST #Exoplanets #TRAPPIST1

[Caltech IPAC @caltechipac]

World-class research + world-class art = @NatureAstronomy cover.🌟

This supergroup collab between @KISS_Caltech & artist Keith Miller from IPAC’s Science Engagement Lab is a fusion of science and vision. The team celebrated by signing their masterpiece.🖊️https://t.co/35YPHumD2I

[Tom Greene @TomPGreene]

Please attend to learn more about and celebrate George Helou's contributions to advancing observational astrophysics

[Caltech IPAC @caltechipac]

Charting The Infrared Universe Symposium

Celebrate George Helou’s 30+ year legacy at IPAC on March 30! ✨🔭

Join us for a hybrid symposium on the future of space-based astronomy. Attendance is free, but registration is required by March 16. https://t.co/pCvrr4wPb2

[Tom Greene @TomPGreene]

@evgenya @danielapai @ASU @NASAJPL @NASA Congratulations to @evgenya and the SPARCS team! Go Astro Pioneers!

[Tom Greene @TomPGreene]

Hooray Vivian U and your team for this great result!

[Caltech IPAC @caltechipac]

Congratulations to IPAC scientist Vivian U and her team, whose work on wobbly black holes and galaxy evolution made the cover of @ScienceMagazine! !🙌🥳🎉😎

➡️Magazine article: https://t.co/ufn5KhkaXa

➡️IPAC story w/ #AAS247 press conference video: https://t.co/aLuZiOAK4X