Matthew Kenworthy

I’m in Belfast this week, giving an Astrophysics Research Centre Seminar at #QUB on Wednesday 26th March titled “Scattered: Wide separation directly imaged exoplanets and shattered exomoons” (also soliciting pub recommendations!) #astrodon #exoplanets 🔭🪐 🌗🎆

A Mustill plot, named by me. Made by Alex Mustil, this is a Venn set-like structure made of nested boxes representing planets and their gravitational domain. Multicolored lines go from left to right in the boxes, representing exomoons, and when they scatter and interact, they move from one box to another. A wireframe sculpture of a female figure holding up a hoop. The sculpture is against a blue sky dotted with clouds. It is called "The Beacon of Hope".