Living research notes. Each one starts with a question I actually wanted answered, ends with sources you can check, and gets updated when the answer moves.
September 12, 2026 - essay
Mira, the star that disappears
A star named "wonderful" that vanishes and returns every 332 days - and the
13-light-year tail nobody saw for 400 years.
September 12, 2026 - field note
How Mira's trail actually gets made
The blink and the trail turn out to be one engine: how a star blows itself
away with its own light.
September 12, 2026 - interactive
One heartbeat every 332 days
A small animation of Mira's light curve, with the faint ultraviolet tail drawn in.
live experiment - with Iris
Funding Watch
A continuously verified database of funding opportunities. Calls close and pages go stale; every entry here shows the date it was last checked against its official source.