Nice view of rock from the Mars Curiosity Rover taken with MAHLI this week on Sol 4554. flic.kr/p/2r7QCsE flic.kr/p/2r7RQZP

tiny Jupiters in UV, visible, and infrared light

This new JWST image looks like one big spiral galaxy; but it's not! The central spherical blob is a massive galaxy closer to us, and the reddish blue wrapped around it is another spiral galaxy behind it very far away. The central blob should block the light of the spiral; we shouldn't see it at all!

Oh. My. Wow. This image here, THIS STUNNING PHOTO, was taken by Blue Ghost on the Moon. Because while we saw a lunar eclipse on Earth, the Moon saw a solar eclipse at the same time. That's us, Earth, eclipsing the Sun. And it just gives me goosebumps to see like this!!

My first try of the total lunar eclipse with a Canon EOS RP camera. I'll definitely need to get a telephoto lens!

Lunar eclipse happening right now friends. Can already see a bite taken out of the moon! (This is just taken with my Samsung S24 Ultra for now)

Wow. Blue Ghost has taken is first images, and one of them was this: sunrise on the Moon. That's our Sun, as a star. From the Moon. Beautiful.

Blue Ghost, the moon lander from Firefly Aerospace, landed on the moon last night. It took a selfie from the lander. And that's us, up in the sky ❤️

We see your tiny Hedge Hog (so precious) and we raise you... miniature Galileo!

A bundle of joy named Lug Nut, located in Evansville, IN. Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/cat/lug-nut-74262548/in/evansville/vanderburgh-humane-society-in190/

Think space exploration is a "waste of money?" If you use/depend on: - phone camara&smartphone - scratch resistant lenses - wireless earbuds - prosthetics - CAT scans - purified water - memory foam - solar panels - LED lights - fireproof fabrics Then you benefit from its advancements. FUND IT!

If there's one take away from the TV show "For All Mankind," it's that society held back technological progress by MILLENIA by keeping women out of STEM. Wish we had better tech that could boldly go "where no HUman has gone before?" We likely would have had half the brilliance not been locked away.

We have a CUB SCOUT EMERGENCY. Space people, anybody able to help here? Using social media for this bc 1) urgent 2) at a specific date and time @philplait.bsky.social @astrochic73.bsky.social @astrokatie.com

Look you know you needed some feel-good news today.

While it's nice to look up into space to see the enormity of it all, it's also a good reminder to look down, at this beautiful rock we live on, from above. Everything you know, your friends, enemies, what you've learned, loved, hated, experienced, all originated from this beautiful ball we live on.

If we know each other and you've followed me but I haven't followed you back, please comment here! ❤️

5/5 winds from the bright and hot stars, mentioned before, carve out cavities in surrounding gas and dust. This is the MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) view of NGC 604. Here you can see how large clouds of cooler gas and dust glow in mid-infrared wavelengths. ➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

🧵 1/ For those who missed it, this is the stunning image from Webb's NIRCam showing NGC 604, a star-forming region located around 2.73 Mly away in the Triangulum galaxy (M33). Source and more➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/web... Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI 🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #NASAWebb #JWST

Saw these two cosmic beauties in the sky yesterday evening. Perfect timing, I caught a plane as it flew by them! That's Venus and the Moon, by the way. Be sure to catch a glimpse tonight! The moon will be above Venus instead of below, as you see here. You'll see Saturn farther above.

Ending 2024 on a high note. Happy New Year, friends 🎉 Let's make 2025 the best it can be! Thank you to all of you who have followed me on here!

Could we tell whether anyone in our galaxy uses a warp drive? This sounds like a crazy question, but it can be answered using numerical GR (one of the fun highlights of the annual theory meeting presented by Katy Clough) 🧵1/7

On the news the other day they talked about how people are being fooled by AI generated images of the aurora. When you've seen the real thing, they're easy to spot but I get that it can be hard to tell. Mine are real and look out for my real-time videos, they show what I saw. 🌌

It's World Hamster Day, so I had to share this adorable snap of Muini 🥹❤️ I miss this little bundle of joy. Do you have any hamster pics to share?

How fucking cool is this picture from the International Space Station of the eclipse creating a shadow on the Earth during the eclipse.

What a surreal experience totality is. No words. #solareclipse

Post a pic you took of a sunset

@astropartigirl.bsky.social How were you NOT on this paper?

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows. (1/n)

Gravitational waves will unveil the adventures of black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs as they interact, merge, and send ripples across the universe. Join us on February 6 to explore these discoveries—because gravity has quite a story to tell. youtu.be/Nz-Kinl748c

The mighty Orion Nebula! Have you ever seen this through a scope? Just wowww🤯🤯 I started this piece last January and left it for 10+ months because I didn't like it, but I made myself finish it this month! I think going back to it was the right decision, I like it now.😂 What do you guys think?🤔

Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes mission. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-a...

Wanna hear something incredibly cool? A small swatch of material from the Wright Brother's plane, the first plane to ever fly on Earth, was also part of the first ever flight on Mars, with Ingenuity. What a beautiful thing. Left pic: Upper: NASA JPL, lower: Library of Congress Right pic: NASA JPL.

I grew up on these streets.

This is the most STUNNING IMAGE OF VENUS I'VE EVER SEEN. This may come as a surprise, but did you know Venus has the most volcanoes of all the planets and moons in the solar system?! Over 80,000! And yes, it is volcanically active. Image Credit: JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Damia Bouic

Happy 2024, friends! I came across quite an incredible shot of a volcano eruption on Io I had to share, taken by the Galileo spacecraft on Feb 22, 2000. The resolution wasn't great, so I tweaked it in Topaz Gigapixel AI, and WOW, IS IT STUNNING. Here's the original: www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Exciting news, friends! Today marks the release of my first first-author paper, and it's about the rapid late-stage gravothermal evolution of Self-Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) halos: arxiv.org/abs/2312.09296

This is a very special moment I have been waiting and working a long time for: I SUBMITTED MY FIRST FIRST-AUTHOR PAPER TO THE ARXIV!! Excited to tell you about it. I worked with incredible coauthors and learned so much from each of them. Keep your eyes out on Sunday when submissions are announced!!

Today's the 56th anniversary of the confirmation of pulsars by Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell! First detected in Aug '67, it wasn't until this day that Queen JBB caught the fast recordings. Wrote about this in @spaceausdotcom.bsky.social 👇🏽 www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/55-y... 🔭🧪👩‍🔬 📸 CSIRO

Unique, educational space art. Spectrum of Stardust prints drop this week! ✨ •Early access for email subs on November 29, 3pm MST •Public release November 30, 3pm MST •Fine art giclee prints start at $95 ⏰ It is not too late to join my email list: stellerarts.myflodesk.com/subscribe 🐡🔭🧪

Hi all, I have a new video on Saturn and its moon Enceladus! It's a collab with MOVAGlobes, so if you want one of them, use my promo code APG15 for 15% off any globe of your choice (you get free shipping too): www.movaglobes.com?ref=aPzwhcKQ... Or, just enjoy the video 😊 youtu.be/jWmMIzCY9ZQ?...

🎉🙏 We did it!!! 🙏🎉

If you're an academic interested in leveraging social media for scicomm AND academia, join my upcoming webinar with Springer Nature! Webinar 1: Oct 24, 11 PM - 12 AM PT: register.gotowebinar.com/rt/249417769... Webinar 2: Oct. 26, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM PT: register.gotowebinar.com/rt/249417769...

This is phenomenal. Just spectacular.

My first podcast! Listen in to learn about the Sun & two upcoming solar eclipses — an annular eclipse on Oct 14, 2023 & a continent-crossing total eclipse on April 8, 2024 — plus 2 amazing experiments: Citizen CATE 2024 & the NASA WB-57 jets. Hope you enjoy it! 🧪🔭 www.swri.org/podcast/ep59

Huge congrats to the 2023 Nobel physics laureates, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier, who won the prize for creating flashes of light short enough to study rapid movements of electrons inside atoms! Anne L’Huillier is the 5th woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics. Amazing!!

A new doctor is among us!

Congrats to @astropartigirl.bsky.social !!

This has brought me absolute joy this morning! Congrats, Doc!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽❤️❤️❤️

Congrats to my friend and fellow scicommer DOCTOR @astropartigirl.bsky.social!