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re: “I do astronomy research for a living”: I’m an instrumentation grad student myself, which I wouldn’t call a living but would call astronomy. We should start a club… get special pins or smth to identify each other at conferences…

OH MY GOD NO WAY my research is also connected to instrumentation!!! we definitely need a club

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Does he know how many people in my phone would hand him the nuclear codes (at least 2)

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lak lb + regular season sincereposting

Entered this season less than confident about the kids we brought up from the AHL and quiet summer acquisitions. Though I loved what the 2023-24 Kings gave me, I was very ready for this to be a Learning year for the first full NHL season of Turcotte and Clarke, Byfield’s first run at playing center full time, Laferriere continuing his quiet performance from his rookie year, along with our Reign legends rotating in and out.

Amazing that all of them have made the jump and contributed significantly to the team’s success after a miserable, shaky start to the season. Clarke and Spence really stepped up when Doughty was injured, Turcotte spent half the season skating on the first line before settling into his current role with grace and everyone knows what a rocket Byfield has been since he figured out how to shoot the puck halfway through🙂‍↕️

and GOD !!! Sammy Helenius stealing the 4C spot halfway through the season, Jacob Moverare finally forcing their hands after years of being a 20 game call-up, Akil Thomas and Andre Lee making it out of camp and getting some games in when the Kings were shorthanded…. That’s so many players drafted and raised by the org.

THAT is going to be my gold standard for player development. Though a lot of the opportunities were given to them incidentally because of injuries, they were primed to seize the moment because of the environment the Reign have been able to give them.

I love the way this team plays and how it drafts and builds itself. Personally i think there IS more to hockey than being huge and violent, and the way they draft reflects that. I love that it matters to them that players they select have pride in their role and pride in protecting their own zone. I love seeing a development pipeline that has produced so many NHLers for this era of cup contention. I love that their AHL team is also competitive.

This team has been such a light for me in a season full of loss for my other teams LMAO!! Kings hockey is a genuine pleasure to watch and learn about. It is beautiful, defensively responsible, and in ideal circumstances it allows for players like Fiala, Clarke, and Kuzmenko to thrive and get creative.

The vibes have been amazing — team and lb tag combined. I wasn’t able to be there for every game due to split loyalties but seeing lak lb slowly grow from maybe 3 people on a good night to. at least 7?? <3 yay <3 I love coming here and seeing new/familiar faces, and hearing from old kings blogs that have come back from the dead. It’s SO cool that we get to hang out <3

I called this season the LA Kings Youth Renaissance at the beginning largely as a joke, but the renewal of Kings hockey on tumblr has been so cool to watch and I feel really privileged to have contributed to it in some way 💙 if i type any more I may get very weepy lol so

HAPPY PLAYOFFS TIME LOOP EVERYONE!!! I’LL SEE YOU IN THE TRENCHES!! (GAME 1)

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spence rocks a new look courtesy of fiala

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"PSR J1841−0500 is a pulsar... discovered in December 2008 by Fernando Camilo. [...] At the time of discovery, it was spinning once every 0.9 seconds. However, in 2009, it stopped emitting pulses completely. Most pulsars that stop emitting pulses only do so for a few minutes. But PSR J1841-0500 did so for 580 days. Then in August 2011, it started pulsing again." [source]

Figures from: "PSR J1841–0500: A RADIO PULSAR THAT MOSTLY IS NOT THERE" by Camilo et al. 2012

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Apologies in advance: this is going to be really long. But hopefully interesting, if you want to learn more about pulsars!

I do astronomy research for a living (when I'm not watching hockey) so I knew I wanted to challenge myself to something a little out of the box with this poetry challenge!!

Pulsars are FREAKY & so so fun. They are a special type of neutron star - the remnant of a supergiant star going supernova. Only black holes are more dense than these guys! And pulsars are special neutron stars that are REALLY magnetized, rotate incredibly fast, and send out these "pulsing" emissions. (See: the figure in the 3rd to last edit image, and also the mention of a "lighthouse" in Lee's poem!)

The lighthouse analogy is actually extremely apt - pulsar emissions are incredibly regular and astronomers often use them as a sort of steady "cosmic clock". Which is why it's so fascinating that this specific pulsar - PSR J1841-0500 - stopped emitting signal for over 500 days before starting again!

While doing this project, I learned that we have only detected one other pulsar that has stopped pulsing for more than a few minutes. That pulsar emits signal for a week, turns off for a month, and then repeats the cycle. So weird!! So many things to still discover about pulsars!

The figures I used above all have actual meaning, beyond also (hopefully) looking very cool. The colored figures are actual observations of the region around the pulsar! The pulsar location is labeled with a white circle.

The two figures with "pulse longitude" are profiles of the pulse in radio wavelengths. The first one is the 2009 profile, when it was first discovered, and the second one is the 2011 profile, when it came back! Same for the final image - that's a plot made from the 2011 data, with an overlaid grey image from the 2009 data. Cool stuff!

I knew I wanted to put this poem together with Jared McCann almost instantly. For one, the "prince's wakening kiss" was too perfect to ignore. I think about Canner's old teammate calling him the "lonely star" about once a month.

But, beyond that, I love the narrative that being chosen by the Kraken in the expansion draft was a chance for him to settle down, to find a home, to rest in the curving arms of the Milky Way for just a little bit. We chose him!! We love him!! And in return, he's woken up - he's our points leader for yet another season, he's a force in the community, he's a mentor for the younger players.

He's a lonely star - one that collapsed under its own gravity, only to become something stronger, steadier, and firmer.

words from - Mary Soon Lee

photos from - x x x x

& if you actually read this far - thanks so SO much for caring about my ramblings!! you're the best. come talk to me about space, or jared mccann, any time. :)

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Mary Soon Lee, "How to Thank Earth"

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How to Commemorate the Big Bang by Mary Soon Lee for The Hartford Whalers

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Saturn + Jakub Dobeš, for @hockeyblrpoetryclub

saturn's f ring, voyager sees spokes, (article) saturn behind the moon

lahodynskyj, redkoles

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the '24-'25 seattle kraken x how to battle entropy @hockeyblrpoetryclub (✦, ✦, ✦, ✦, ✦, ✦, ✦, ✦, ✦, ✦)

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How to Go Twelfth- for Valentina Tereshkova x Jessica Campbell

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(Vitor Munhoz, Steph Chambers, Michael Chisholm)

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how to go twelfth . Mary Soon Lee + Caroline Ouellette for @hockeyblrpoetryclub

[inspo ⬇️ the cut]

[2022]

[2023 / 2023]

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How to Go Sixth by Mary Soon Lee for the Sixth Overall Pick Jamie Drysdale

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how to survive a black hole by mary soon lee

for @hockeyblrpoetryclub: outer space edition

neighboring galaxies: dartducks

sources:

wikipedia: stanley cup playoffs

nhl: 2025 playoffs bracket

nhl: arizona coyotes (retrieved from the internet archive)

getty images: mullet arena center ice

getty images: mcdavid kopitar faceoff

getty images: rodgers palace

getty images: edmonton oilers cellying

wikipedia: 2003 nhl draft

getty images: 2012-13 oilers team photo

wikipedia: edmonton oilers

down goes brown: a history of san jose sharks playoff misery

nhl: san jose sharks jersey retirement

getty images: san jose sharks banner

sky and telescope: hawking radiation diagram

nhl: jeff skinner skating

wikipedia: list of nhl franchise post-season droughts

wikipedia: buffalo sabres

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How to Appoint the North Star by Mary Soon Lee x Connor McDavid

For @hockeyblrpoetryclub - Outer Space Edition

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seattle kraken's rescues ft. "how to detect solar neutrinos"

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coming to the end of the season i realised i have a lot of feelings about this team and about these guys in particular. in krakencord there's a running joke that seattle is a haven for those lost and alone, but in a lot of ways it's true. even knowing how cruel the hockey world can be, i hope the kraken can be a home for these guys for many years to come. they deserve it <33

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"PSR J1841−0500 is a pulsar... discovered in December 2008 by Fernando Camilo. [...] At the time of discovery, it was spinning once every 0.9 seconds. However, in 2009, it stopped emitting pulses completely. Most pulsars that stop emitting pulses only do so for a few minutes. But PSR J1841-0500 did so for 580 days. Then in August 2011, it started pulsing again." [source]

Figures from: "PSR J1841–0500: A RADIO PULSAR THAT MOSTLY IS NOT THERE" by Camilo et al. 2012

@hockeyblrpoetryclub ✨

Apologies in advance: this is going to be really long. But hopefully interesting, if you want to learn more about pulsars!

I do astronomy research for a living (when I'm not watching hockey) so I knew I wanted to challenge myself to something a little out of the box with this poetry challenge!!

Pulsars are FREAKY & so so fun. They are a special type of neutron star - the remnant of a supergiant star going supernova. Only black holes are more dense than these guys! And pulsars are special neutron stars that are REALLY magnetized, rotate incredibly fast, and send out these "pulsing" emissions. (See: the figure in the 3rd to last edit image, and also the mention of a "lighthouse" in Lee's poem!)

The lighthouse analogy is actually extremely apt - pulsar emissions are incredibly regular and astronomers often use them as a sort of steady "cosmic clock". Which is why it's so fascinating that this specific pulsar - PSR J1841-0500 - stopped emitting signal for over 500 days before starting again!

While doing this project, I learned that we have only detected one other pulsar that has stopped pulsing for more than a few minutes. That pulsar emits signal for a week, turns off for a month, and then repeats the cycle. So weird!! So many things to still discover about pulsars!

The figures I used above all have actual meaning, beyond also (hopefully) looking very cool. The colored figures are actual observations of the region around the pulsar! The pulsar location is labeled with a white circle.

The two figures with "pulse longitude" are profiles of the pulse in radio wavelengths. The first one is the 2009 profile, when it was first discovered, and the second one is the 2011 profile, when it came back! Same for the final image - that's a plot made from the 2011 data, with an overlaid grey image from the 2009 data. Cool stuff!

I knew I wanted to put this poem together with Jared McCann almost instantly. For one, the "prince's wakening kiss" was too perfect to ignore. I think about Canner's old teammate calling him the "lonely star" about once a month.

But, beyond that, I love the narrative that being chosen by the Kraken in the expansion draft was a chance for him to settle down, to find a home, to rest in the curving arms of the Milky Way for just a little bit. We chose him!! We love him!! And in return, he's woken up - he's our points leader for yet another season, he's a force in the community, he's a mentor for the younger players.

He's a lonely star - one that collapsed under its own gravity, only to become something stronger, steadier, and firmer.

words from - Mary Soon Lee

photos from - x x x x

& if you actually read this far - thanks so SO much for caring about my ramblings!! you're the best. come talk to me about space, or jared mccann, any time. :)

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[ID: How to Nap Like PSR J1841-0500

Cease your frenzied signaling, that spinning lighthouse beam.

Even the most stalwart stars deserve respite from strife.

Nestle in the curving arm of the Milky Way's embrace.

Drowse for a year, dreaming of a prince's wakening kiss.

Enough. No prince will come. Wake up. Resume your labors. end ID]