Kimberly Kowal Arcand
@kimberlykowal
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Visualization scientist, PhD. Emerging tech/data viz/X-ray astronomy. Speaker/author: latest book on Light is now out. Opinions are my own; she/her
RI, USA
Joined March 2008
Excited about today's @ehtelescope announcement on #ourblackhole? You can now listen to the data! This is a sonification — translation into sound — of the image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), w/@system_sounds
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@tjdelsanto Felt it here in N.RI just minutes after a colleague in Cambridge felt it while we were on a call together (I saw her desk moving). Very interesting catching that wave as it moved.
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RT @BlindNewWorld: Want to learn more about @ChandraXray's mission to make space more #accessible? Read this post that @KimberlyKowal and…
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RT @NASA: Last Christmas, @ChandraXray gave us a cluster of stars. This year, new telescope views (combined with Chandra data) gave us some…
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RT @NASA: Red Wine Supernova ❤️ Supernova 1987a has been studied by @NASAHubble, @chandraxray, and ALMA, a powerful array of 66 antennas,…
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RT @NASAWebb: It’s giving rainbows and unicorns, like a middle school binder 🦄🌈 Meet NGC 602, a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic…
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@kerikukral @RawScienceTV @The_TriadNYC @dmarcus @MatthewModine @AdamRackoff Such a great event - kudos to you all!
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RT @astro_dan_mil: Awesome episode of @StarTalkRadio featuring astrophysicist + data sonification guru @kimberlykowal from @chandraxray, wh…
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@AstroBicks @chandraxray @NASAUniverse @NASAWebb @NASAHubble It's light echoes around a stellar mass black hole in orbit with a companion star!
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RT @lbtb_yyj: "A stunning visual exploration of the power and behavior of light across the entire electromagnetic spectrum." A paperback ed…
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RT @chandraxray: Space fans, meet Deadheads. 💫💀 Or perhaps you've already met! While Dead & Company performs at the Sphere in Las Vegas, im…
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RT @astro_dan_mil: Outstanding article in @SmithsonianMag describing each of the images created in celebration of @chandraxray’s 25 years o…
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RT @NASA: For 25 years, @chandraxray has given us the x-ray vision to see galaxies and star clusters form, peer into black holes, and study…
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RT @JPMajor: This collection of 25 images represents much of the image processing I helped the @chandraxray team with over the past year. S…
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RT @NYTScience: For the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA produced ghostly time-lapse videos of two centuries-old ste…
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