When you gaze into the night sky on a clear night, it is enchanting, immense, and awe-inspiring – the universe outside, but right inside you, there is also an enchanting, immense, and awe-inspiring universe of your soul – let your light shine! (short video here)

Dr. Maria Stone

aka Your Astronomer from Helsinki

Dr. Maria B. Stone

Dr. Maria B. Stone

Job seeker (Helsinki)

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My Goals

  • My aspiration in astronomy is to make a ground-breaking discovery, which is largely a gift from God to pierce into the mystery of Universe and does not depend on anything else, but I can take reasonable steps to be ready.
  • I hope to contribute meaningfully to the community.
  • Financially, my goal is to have 2000$/month (estimate).
  • I aim to be there for my family and not let the career steal from family time (aka work/life balance).

Research Interests

  • Evolution of galaxies
  • Environments around AGN-host galaxies
  • SMBH-host galaxy correlations at different redshifts
PhD Thesis

Thesis can be downloaded here

Challenges with a Career in Astronomy – starting from zero over and over again due to moving

There are many challenges associated with life. Then, there are certain challenges when you pursue a career, a job, a profession. I focus here on a few challenges that I face in pursuit of a career in astronomy. This is from my subjective experience, so, take it with...

The rainbow of light, aka the electromagnetic spectrum

Light has wavelengths beyond the visible blue-green-red-yellow colors, actually many more wavelengths than the so-called visible range (to human eyes). This is illustrated in the following diagram from my thesis. For example, wavelengths that are longer than the...

Tables, tables, tables! Combining your results with archival catalogs and literature results in Astronomy/Science research

I am just posting a drop, a touch of what happens when you try to understand how your research results compare to what has been found before and reported in published (credible) literature. I am going to use a figure from my own thesis, Figure 28, see the video below ...

Humans and workplaces: kindness, not condemnation for problems

"You should not overwhelm people with your problems." Over and over I heard in a seminar about networking in a country where supposedly authenticity is valued high (#Finland), as well as honesty. Who defines a problem? And who defines the level of the problem(s)...

My book is published!

I am happy to announce that my book is live on Amazon,...

It is angular?! – a note on coordinate systems in astronomy

I first started studying astronomy in my 7th grade in Armenia in an Astronomy Club organized by teacher Armen Oskanyan. One of the first concepts he taught me was the various coordinate systems used in Astronomy, at least 5 of them! When one thinks of coordinate...

Research niche and the power of critical thinking

Stream of consciousness on ideas about Marketable skills / Niche areas in research / Critical Thinking in Research   #This idea came to me as I was dropping off kids at the daycare (I think by the time I sat down to write, some of my good ideas vanished from my...

My stardust spectrum

We are made of stardust. But our stardust does not have to fall only into one bucket.   My stardust touches not only astronomy, but also humanities. During my doctoral degree, I focused on astronomy. After completing the degree, I decided to bring back the balance. As...

suomen kieli – tarvin lisä

Minä tiedan että täällä ovat paljon ongelmät. Mutta minä kirjoitän. Minä en halua katson Google Translate - ei paljon - minimum. Se on vaikea. Minä en tiedä hyvin sanat. Minä kirjoitän koska minun tarvin opiskella suomen kieli - hyvin, hyvin, hyvin. Tarvin kieli koska...

It is essential to try, to test, to make mistakes

I wanted to write a short post regarding making attempts. I taught a course on observational astronomy as an assistant, and in that un-representative sample of about 20 students, when I asked people to make a guess, e.g. about exposure, or anything else, male students...
Image Credits: Telescope by Juan Pablo Bravo from the Noun Project

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