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Graham Doskoch

A Hole Over Hobart

How the Space Shuttle’s engines helped scientists push the limits of radio astronomy

Feb 24, 2023

Graeme Ellis and Grote Reber outside Reber’s hut by an radio array outside Hobart in 1965, along with colleagues Bart Bok and Peter McCullough. Bok and Reber are sitting in the center and Ellis and McCullough are standing; all are drinking from mugs around a makeshift table.

Feb 24, 2023

Published in
Look Upwards

FLIERs: Cosmic bullets or evaporating gas?

These fast-moving knots remain one of the many mysteries of planetary nebulae

Jul 9, 2020

FLIERs: Cosmic bullets or evaporating gas?

Jul 9, 2020

Published in
The Cosmic Companion

We’ve mapped the Milky Way’s hydrogen. Can we do the same thing with helium?

Here’s how we can go beyond the 21 cm line.

Jun 23, 2020

We’ve mapped the Milky Way’s hydrogen. Can we do the same thing with helium?

Jun 23, 2020

Published in
The Cosmic Companion

Here’s why LB-1 can’t contain a 70-solar mass black hole

A tale of spectral analysis gone terrible wrong

Jan 8, 2020

Here’s why LB-1 can’t contain a 70-solar mass black hole

Jan 8, 2020

Published in
Look Upwards

Are novae producing the Milky Way’s lithium?

Astronomers don’t fully understand the lithium abundances of the Milky Way. An exploding white dwarf called Nova Centauri 2013 might be…

Dec 31, 2019

Are novae producing the Milky Way’s lithium?

Dec 31, 2019

Published in
Look Upwards

Where in the universe is SCP 06F6?

A tale written in carbon, calcium, magnesium and nickel.

Dec 11, 2019

Where in the universe is SCP 06F6?

Dec 11, 2019

Published in
Look Upwards

Can black holes trigger star formation? Sure.

How a lucky discovery revealed the creative side of active galactic nuclei.

Dec 2, 2019

Can black holes trigger star formation? Sure.

Dec 2, 2019

Plasmas, protons, and particle physics

A trip to Brookhaven National Laboratory

Jul 25, 2019

Plasmas, protons, and particle physics

Jul 25, 2019

Trust the Batch Process, Part 2: Kvetching about Vetch

What happens when a server goes bad

Jul 23, 2019

Trust the Batch Process, Part 2: Kvetching about Vetch

Jul 23, 2019

Published in
Universe Factory

What if the Sun was made of helium?

I like thinking about astronomical objects in universes like our own, but with a twist. For instance, in a universe with a lot of dark…

Jul 21, 2019

What if the Sun was made of helium?

Jul 21, 2019

Graham Doskoch

Graham Doskoch

PhD student in radio astronomy. Pulsars, pulsar timing, radio transients, gravitational waves, and the history of astronomy.

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