Brutkey

Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

To be very clear, I am really truly only involved in this discovery by accidentally pointing the telescope at Saturn when I was trying to look for TNOs. Edward Ashton, Brett Gladman, Mike Alexandersen, and Jean-Marc Petit did all the work!

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.07081

Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

Someone already updated Wikipedia! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn

I love wikipedians.

Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/saturn-new-moons-record

Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00781-1

Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

I've had like 3 co-workers text or email me about this interview this morning, so I guess I should share it. This is the one that I thought was for radio so I didn't even brush my hair. New rule for myself: always assume it's a video interview!

Came out pretty good though, overall I'm happy with it

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6685144

Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

Amazingly talented fediverse astrophotographers: gorgeous, perfectly exposed and processed telescope images

Me, a professional astronomer: accidentally points a 4 meter telescope at Saturn for a series of 5 minute exposures