Kelly Kizer Whitt
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Editor and writer at EarthSky.org, author of nine books, @Astronomommy on that other site
Why does Saturn's moon Hyperion give me the heebie-jeebies? I don't like it. I don't like it... 😵💫
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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
about 2 months ago
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Saw a beautiful sun halo today while hiking near Phoenix.
3 months ago
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Aurora / northern lights tonight are rivaling the best I’ve ever seen. This was during the 7:00 pm hour from southern Wisconsin 🔭
4 months ago
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Seeing some colorful northern lights right now from near Madison, Wisconsin.
#aurora
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6 months ago
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Curious to know what we’ll learn about that Mars rock in this press conference that we didn’t already know…
6 months ago
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I’m jealous of all of you who saw the strange spiral in the night sky last night. Here are some images and an explanation of what it was. 🔭
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Strange spiral in the night sky was a rocket fuel dump
https://earthsky.org/space/strange-spiral-in-the-night-sky-rocket-fuel-dump-aug-12-2025/
7 months ago
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7 months ago
All of us bringing tiny bits of the lost trees into our lungs. A walking gravesite. Literally carrying the death of the forest around in us.
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A tornado hit my mom’s street today. You can hear the fear in her voice. My parents were fine, though!
#wiwx
#tornado
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8 months ago
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I was golfing horribly last week and then something put it all in perspective to show me that things could be worse. (When you see it…)
#golf
8 months ago
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Did something just hit Saturn? Possibly! 🔭
earthsky.org/space/did-sp...
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Did something just hit Saturn? See the image here!
https://earthsky.org/space/did-space-rock-hit-saturn-photo/
8 months ago
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Another day of storms in Wisconsin. Plus fireflies.
#wiwx
8 months ago
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I love this spiral galaxy that looks like a golfer. Which galaxy in Vera Rubin’s Sky Viewer is your fave? 🔭
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8 months ago
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The hue of tonight’s Strawberry Moon is courtesy of Canadian wildfires. It’s low on the southern horizon all night. Lowest moon in decades. 🔭
9 months ago
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Hail just now in Middleton, WI
#wiwx
10 months ago
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I had ChatGPT make my sister’s cat into a person.
11 months ago
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“Let’s do this!” I hollered and then proceeded to not, in fact, do it.
11 months ago
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Quote post with a picture you took in a national park. Glacier National Park, Montana, summer of 2024.
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about 1 year ago
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Visiting the Mall of Mexico in the Twin Cities today.
about 1 year ago
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Last week it was 1-in-83 odds. Yesterday it was 1-in-53 odds. And today it’s down to 1-in-43 odds. Let’s go!!! 🔭 🌎☄️ Asteroid 2024 YR4 chance of hitting Earth up to 1 in 43
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 chance of hitting Earth up to 1 in 43
https://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-2024-yr4-odds-hit-earth-torino-scale-2032/
about 1 year ago
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What if Bennu hit Earth? Simulations suggest catastrophe 🔭 (Yet why do I find it a pleasant daydream?)
earthsky.org/space/what-i...
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What if Bennu hit Earth? Simulations suggest catastrophe
https://earthsky.org/space/what-if-bennu-hit-earth-simulations/
about 1 year ago
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Wordle 1,324 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I have waited years for this day. Time to think of a new starting word!
about 1 year ago
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“The announcement came during a press conference Saturday morning, August 24, 2024. … Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are now scheduled to return to Earth in February 2025 aboard the SpaceX Dragon 9 crew capsule.” Don’t allow them to gaslight you. 🔭
earthsky.org/spaceflight/...
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Ailing Starliner spacecraft returns to Earth sans crew
https://earthsky.org/spaceflight/boeing-starliner-mission-launch-first-crew-may-2024/
about 1 year ago
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New asteroid is a 3 on the Torino scale. And it might stay there for a while… ☄️🔭
earthsky.org/space/astero...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 has non-zero odds of hitting Earth
https://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-2024-yr4-odds-hit-earth-torino-scale-2032/
about 1 year ago
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Ever since visiting the southernmost point in the continental US, I’ve wanted to visit the actual southernmost point in the US. This month I was able to do just that.
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to
#H5N1
bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
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Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
https://www.kcur.org/news/2025-01-21/eggs-expensive-bird-flu
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Remember the mini-moon we had last fall? Turns out it likely really was a mini piece of the moon ejected during a past impact. 🔭
earthsky.org/space/earth-...
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Earth’s asteroid mini-moon a chunk of the moon?
https://earthsky.org/space/earth-asteroid-mini-moon-for-2-months-2024/
about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
Just in case you were wondering! Lock in!
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Saturday’s sunset from the southernmost point in the U.S. 🌎
#KaLae
#Hawaii
about 1 year ago
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I saw my first fogbow! And then I saw another one! Haleakala is a special place. ❤️🌋
about 1 year ago
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Sun halo today with a glimpse of the circumzenithal arc at the very top. 🔭 One of the good things to come out of cold winter days. ❤️☀️❄️
about 1 year ago
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We got ourselves a G4 geomagnetic storm at the moment with a Kp8. Quite a bang to start the new year! 🔭 Of course it’s daylight and cloudy where I live so… 🤷♀️
about 1 year ago
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2024 was an incredible year for stargazers. 🔭
about 1 year ago
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I read and listened to 111 books this year. Some 5 star reads in that stack.
#booksky
about 1 year ago
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Happy Winter Solstice to 90% of you! Happy Summer Solstice to the rest. ❄️☀️ 🔭
about 1 year ago
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lady gagita
about 1 year ago
this is teaching me that a lot of yall need to look at the stars more. the bright light to the w/sw after sunset is venus. jupiter is currently hanging out somewhere near the moon. you can see orion pretty much every night. castor and pollux are really bright also.
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BNO News
about 1 year ago
Some of the "drones" in former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan's video were found to be stars in the constellation Orion - NYT
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Saddened to learn that Laurie Allen Klein, the illustrator of my children’s picture book Solar System Forecast, recently died of lung cancer. She was a fantastic, prolific artist:
www.goodreads.com/author/list/...
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Books by Laurie Allen Klein (Author of Out to Pasture)
Laurie Allen Klein has 46 books on Goodreads with 3583 ratings. Laurie Allen Klein’s most popular book is Out to Pasture: But Not over the Hill (Fairacre...
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/1024803.Laurie_Allen_Klein
about 1 year ago
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Four times in the past week Daichi Fujii has caught meteors hitting the moon. Could these be Geminids? 🔭
earthsky.org/space/are-ge...
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Are Geminid meteors striking the moon? See videos
https://earthsky.org/space/are-geminid-meteors-striking-the-moon-see-videos/
about 1 year ago
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Check out these jaw-dropping southern and northern lights images.
#aurora
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See the best northern lights photos of 2024
https://earthsky.org/todays-image/best-northern-lights-photos-of-2024/
about 1 year ago
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Circumzenithal arc … achievement unlocked! 🔓 Every time I see a sun dog I look above the sun for the circumzenithal arc, and I finally spotted one!
about 1 year ago
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☄️🚨‼️Incoming! For only the 11th time ever (and 4th time this year) we’ve spotted an asteroid before it hits Earth. 🔭
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Recently finished reading The Dog Stars by Peter Heller. Really good post-apocalyptic book, but I don’t remember the last time I had so much anxiety while reading! 📚
#books
#reading
over 1 year ago
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A pair of recent photos, 20 minutes apart. The Belt of Venus appears at sunset. 🔭
over 1 year ago
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… and it’s about to blow up! 🔭
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First close-up image of a star outside the Milky Way
https://earthsky.org/space/first-close-up-image-star-outside-the-milky-way-lmc-wohg64/
over 1 year ago
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I can’t get enough books lately. I want to read and listen to books every free moment. Books, BOOKS, BOOOOKS!
over 1 year ago
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Took a walk through a swamp this morning. Saw 2 gators, a raccoon, a great blue heron, a belted kingfisher, a red-shouldered hawk and fresh panther scat. 😆
over 1 year ago
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I had long wanted to visit Antelope Canyon, and I finally got the chance this summer. It was beautiful. Outside the canyon it was brutally hot but inside it was cool and peaceful/
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EarthSky Visits Upper Antelope Canyon
YouTube video by EarthSky
https://youtube.com/shorts/TH3ebkg0tU0?si=pPuThfHTeQrBHdiK
over 1 year ago
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Galileo says hello.
#CatsofBlueSky
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over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
Hello! *taps microphone* Is this thing on? We're here! And we can't wait to share the universe with you. 🔭⭐🌌🌘🧪
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