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Dec 17 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We will build and fly a new constellation of Great Observatories, beginning with the Habitable Worlds Observatory. It will pursue life beyond earth, and with the power of a fleet including X-ray and FIR Great Observatories, we will tell the story of life in the Universe.
We can’t do this without a grassroots community coalition to advocate for the fleet at all fractal levels, from chats with a student to advocacy amongst stakeholders and policy makers. Join us here greatobservatories.org
Want to get involved now? We need you! Join NASA’s New Great Observatories Science Analysis Group by Jan 15. greatobservatories.org/sag
And join us for the (@NASA sponsored!) New Great Observatories Splinter Meeting at #AAS241. Virtual attendance is *completely free and open to all*. Exciting agenda and a big announcement coming soon. greatobservatories.org/aas241

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Nov 15
Your AAS registration fee is very high. It's a huge barrier to participation. We're (quite literally) not allowed to bankrupt the society, but we can start a dialog about fees.

Hosting #AAS241 will cost us at least $1,612,249. We'll lose money or *barely* break even (1/n) Image
The largest expense by far is our collection of (excellent! professional!) A/V vendors, to whom we'll pay $424,000. Making the meeting hybrid effectively doubles their quote, i.e. adds about $200,000 to the total meeting cost. There is almost zero price competition in this space. Image
There is basically no compelling argument why a conference that costs you $700 in reg fee alone shouldn't provide you stable, fast wifi throughout the meeting. And so we will pay $147,000 to provide "free" WiFi throughout all venues. We have zero negotiating power here.
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Feb 4
.@chandraxray's *real* First Light vs. the "public" First Light. The former is so much more epochal and emotional. But it's hard to explain to the public why it looks cruddy. JWST going through this right now, but the People Who've Seen It are absolutely overjoyed.
@chandraxray I've only ever seen two true First Lights: MUSE and SPHERE on @ESO's Very Large Telescope. There were lots of tears and hugs. A technical achievement that becomes a human moment *real* fast. I can't imagine what it must've been like to be in the MOC earlier this week.
The absolute first Chandra image. Leon X-1 (the source in my first tweet) is circle #5. Now you get why the big splashy media release First Lights are of more immediately spectacular things. But this is the real moment.
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Jan 24
Apparently we’re minting NFTs to exoplanets now. Looks like a “buy a star” grift to me, but you do you. ImageImageImageImage
I just hope they don’t pull the rug before I get my fake weather system to my $6,000 URL to a jpeg of a scraped row of the @NASAExoArchive.
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Oct 13, 2021
Fun note from Eric Smith just now: The SAME driver who drove all of the JWST mirrors across the country drove the truck with fully assembled JWST onto the boat. Been with project a long time!

Salute to you, Driver. A critical part of the JWST team. Image
I mean, arguably one of the most critical. 🤷‍♂️
I mean, I'm kinda tearing up just thinking about it. Same driver got to send it on its last earthbound journey. 😢
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Oct 13, 2021
Paul Hertz: I don't know when #Astro2020 is coming out. Maybe the committee can combine all of our rumors.

This is the plot of APD division scientists' guesses as to the release date. Only two potential winners remain! Image
"We intend to come back to the community 8-10 weeks after the survey to tell you our plans”.

Q from Chick: So this is unlikely to happen at AAS?

Paul: I don’t think we’re going to get it in time for AAS now. It has to be vetted through agency. If we had it by Oct 1, maybe. Image
Note that Paul uses the New Great Observatories logo as the notional cover for #Astro2020. I remain happy to give this to Colleen / Fiona / Rob and save the committee time. :) Image
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Oct 13, 2021
Paul Hertz' prepared statement on JWST renaming, at APAC right now Image
"The Administrator made the decision". Brian Odom, Acting Chief Historian, will give more detail into the process right now
Brian speaking now... Image
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