Matt Mountain

President of Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)
Astrophysicist 🌏🪐
Opinions are my own.

[Dr Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel]

Houston, we have a telescope! Great video sequence (96 seconds) of the installation of the 8.4-meter primary mirror into the Rubin Observatory! #RubinObs #BigGlass https://t.co/LRFXTaGlUs

[Matt Mountain @matt_mountain]

I am honored to have attended the 2024 Kavli Prize ceremony last week in Oslo. Congratulations to Sara Seager and David Charbonneau! Your groundbreaking contributions to science and innovation inspire us all. Here’s to pushing the boundaries of knowledge and shaping the future!

[AURA @AURADC]

Welcome 2024-25 AURA Board of Directors to their 1st meeting! M. Mountain, M. Donahue, A. Baker, K. Bjorkman, E. CoBabe-Ammann, M. Rubio, B. Flaugher, L. Infante, E. Barton, K. Cruz, J. McAteer (not shown D. Jaffe, R. S. Oey, J. Oglesby, D. Reitze, W. Rockward, R. Davies)

[Matt Mountain @matt_mountain]

This is a banner time for science from Hubble, with a recording-breaking number of papers in 2023!(Source: Space Telescope Users Committee mtg last month.) Green=new Hubble observations; purple = archival data; cyan=a combo of new and archival; light blue not assigned.

[AURA @AURADC]

@hbhammel shares the excitement and intrigue of watching a comet slam into Jupiter 30 years ago with the Hubble Space Telescope!

[Gemini Observatory @GeminiObs]

🎉The @GeminiObs North telescope is celebrating 25 years since first light!🔭✨

[Steve Finkelstein 🪐 @astrosteven]

Well, this is pretty dang cool, from @Jeopardy last night, featuring our @ceers_jwst discovery!

[AURA @AURADC]

Astronomers are using AURA managed observatories from @NOIRLabAstro Kitt Peak with the @desisurvey to @stsci @NASAHubble and @NASAWebb to measure dark energy. @VRubinObs will soon be able to help!

[Matt Mountain @matt_mountain]

Delighted to open the Habitable Worlds Observatory Open House at SPIE last night with colleagues Jim Oschmann, Mark Clampin and Sarah Tuttle!

[Matt Mountain @matt_mountain]

@astrogrant And all White Males - I use this picture to make a different point

[Matt Mountain @matt_mountain]

Visited the Rubin Observatory and saw the LSST camera, the largest digital camera ever constructed. Very impressive! #capturethecosmos

[John Mulchaey @johnmulchaey]

I had a great time talking about the next generation ground-based telescopes with @Chryseplanatia and @tariqjmalik on This Week in Space.

https://t.co/fffG22sIoh

[AURA @AURADC]

Astronomers care about climate change and @NOIRLabAstro is doing something about its carbon footprint. Read about efforts here: https://t.co/WVsKMKJKrE and here https://t.co/L85zvCsVuv

[Thomas Zurbuchen @Dr_ThomasZ]

It may be time soon to but the S back in NSF!

[Thomas Zurbuchen @Dr_ThomasZ]

This is sad, baffling, and even infuriating for those who care for 🇺🇸 leadership in science. What the heck is the @nsf leadership thinking?

https://t.co/HkGZWQNcfb

[Matt Mountain @matt_mountain]

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024 AURA Awards at Space Telescope Science Institute! Your hard work and continued contributions have helped shape @SpaceTelescope into the amazing Institute it is today. Thank you for everything you do.

[John O'Meara @astronomeara]

I have said it before. I will say it again. Be like @janerrigby Jane is awesome

[The White House 46 Archived @WhiteHouse46]

Today, President Biden will award the highest civilian honor – the Presidential Medal of Freedom – to nineteen extraordinary Americans.

[Matt Mountain @matt_mountain]

Congratulations to the Rubin team for completing this huge milestone. The mirror looks fantastic!

[NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory @VRubinObs]

Rubin Observatory's 8.4-meter mirror is finally, well, a mirror! 🥳

The glass got its shiny coating this past weekend—but what did that actually look like?

Find out in the fifth and final video in our "Making of Rubin's 8.4-meter Mirror" series ✨

#CaptureTheCosmos

[NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory @VRubinObs]

Rubin Observatory's 8.4-meter mirror is finally, well, a mirror! 🥳

The glass got its shiny coating this past weekend—but what did that actually look like?

Find out in the fifth and final video in our "Making of Rubin's 8.4-meter Mirror" series ✨

#CaptureTheCosmos