
Victoria DiTomaso
Astronomer and NSF Graduate Research Fellow pursuing a PhD in astronomy at Harvard's Center for Astrophysics, known for discovering the exoplanet HD 60079 b ("Bubbles").
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Apr 11, 2026
Finding the “Bubbles” Exoplanet and Crocheting Dinosaurs with Victoria DiTomasso
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Victoria DiTomassoGUEST
But yeah, so there's only so much information we can access right now with the telescopes that we have.

Victoria DiTomassoGUEST
And so it is amazing to have an avenue to probe these other questions and to probe these systems more deeply, getting into the details of what would these planets' atmospheres be like potentially based on what you're saying, what we understand about physics and what we understand about geochemistry.

Victoria DiTomassoGUEST
And there's a beautiful overlap between the theoretical work and saying this is what we could expect.

Victoria DiTomassoGUEST
And then once we are able to start getting data, seeing, OK, where does that overlap? What is being supported by the data? What isn't? Yeah, there's also this other theoretical work that I learned about fairly recently that is kind of like the most exciting thing I've heard in a talk recently, which is that some theoretical work coming out of UCLA found that it is so the prominent theory about how the Earth got its water is that it was delivered after the Earth was formed.
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14:22Allen LiuHOST
the story of how you so this is a particular exoplanet you discovered and then informally named it bubbles
