Kennedy Space Center, here I come!!

It's lunation 1270 and exciting things are happening in space & astronomy: ngttg.kit.com/posts/it-s-j...

I yapped for a little bit about life and Clarion youtu.be/J7iyDNJ7NrQ

Still can't totally believe I got to do this!! What an experience!

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Got this lunation's Gibbous Guide out before the end of the waxing gibbous by the skin of my teeth! ngttg.kit.com/posts/anothe...

Today's procrastination task: going through my personal TikTok account and privating all the insanely embarrassing old videos of me dancing 🙈

Big day for the matriarchy! 🥳 Huge congrats to the awesome Prof. Doughtery, lead on the Jupiter-bound ESA JUICE mission & STFC Exec Chair. If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Holyrood 🤗 ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩‍🔬🔭🧪

I'm pretty sure whoever curates the word list in Spelling Bee has never taken a science class

Me trying to order a beer at the bar: 🧍‍♀️ Random guy behind me: woah that is a huge human

Spent a couple hours writing a beautiful scene of about 1300 words, realized the story will be way too long if I include that story beat, and deleted the whole thing 🥲

I don't think TikTok quite groks my niche... I mean I'm happy to talk about why Mercury is in retrograde, but I don't think it's going to be what the people searching are looking for!!

This is absurd. The red supergiant Betelgeuse is the bright feature in this image. But that darker blue splotch is a *companion star* that's just been discovered—and it orbits so close to Betelgeuse that it's inside the larger star's outer atmosphere.

I've been so busy with my workshop I haven't had time to keep up with the news, so I'm a couple days late to this slap in the face. The superintendent role is a 3 year position with a mandatory retirement afterwards; VADM Davids is only 18 months in and is being moved to a different role. Sketch af

56 years!!

My husband is trying to explain the subtleties of air flow around a cricket ball to me, but I'm still way back at the starting line trying to figure out the topology of making a sphere with a single seam.

I am literally in the middle of scripting a video about matter/antimatter asymmetry! Guess I have a new segment to add 😃

After 3 weeks in La Jolla, it feels so nice to be back in Pasadena and WARM again!! 🌞

In case you needed some good news this week: We now have OVER A THOUSAND spectra of PLANETS AROUND OTHER STARS. This is our training ground for modeling extreme weather. For understanding the diversity of planets across our Galaxy. For searching for biosignatures. This is very, very cool.

Have you ever seen a sprite from space?? Absolutely unreal! 🔭🛰🧪 📷: Nichole Ayers, NASA

Love this article about how heavy elements are formed in the universe and how this is a story we are still piecing together! 🧪🔭 www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-s...

The stars in the background and the eruption is so beautiful!

1/n 🧵 Just released: NEW images of Phobos over Mars by @esa.int Mars Express 🔭🧪 This view shows Phobos above Olympus Mons! Full-size (130MP) image & details: flic.kr/p/2rggHKy Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck CC BY Captured on May 14, 2025 | Image ID: HQ967 Raw data from: psa.esa.int

I thought I was so tired because of lack of sleep (which I am), but I also realized it's because I am an extreme introvert and don't usually spend so much time around people...this is from my Garmin and can you tell when I was in a room with people and when I was alone?? 🤣

I don't even know what breaking good news is anymore, but cautious yay?

I'm almost numb to this by now except it will always hurt

"I came across your profile and wanted to reach out because we're hiring Biochemists" you mean my profile that shows me to be an astrophysicist?? 🤔

We have images of a new interstellar visitor! ☄️ 👀 Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third object ever spotted coming from beyond our Solar System. In this timelapse, our VLT observes the comet move across the sky — just two days after its discovery! https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2527a/ 🔭 🧪

What I'm supposed to be doing: writing a story about fairies What I'm actually doing: making an illustration of PSF convolution

Happy 4th of July! I will never stop believing in the ideals of my country and will keep fighting for us to live up to them. All people are created equal with certain unalienable Rights! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆

I'm still not over these @vrubinobs.bsky.social pictures. I can't be the only one who sees this 😵

How funny, I'm literally in the middle of writing a short story about an interstellar comet! This is only the 3rd confirmed interstellar object so this is super cool!

Every time!

Mistakes in the autocaptions on my latest video: apophasis / apoplexy / apohapsis (apoapsis) apple centre (apocenter, also wtf random British spelling 🤷‍♀️) epileon (aphelion) "perihelion, perihelion, perihelion, perihelion" ("periapsis, pericenter, perihelion, perijove" c'mon that's just giving up!)

Yeah so this is insane

First day of Clarion on the books, and so far I have been gratified, humbled, cried in the library, stayed up past my bedtime to finish reading stories, and questioned my entire writing life (and social skills) about 3 dozen times. So a fun day!! 😃

We have one sun, yes, but what about second sun??? 🧪👩‍🔬🔭🛰 youtu.be/oL4f003UCeQ

I just got an email saying the embargo is lifted, so here's the full @vrubinobs.bsky.social press release: noirlab.edu/public/news/...

Speechless. This is so beautiful it almost looks fake but it is totally REAL 🤩

2100 new asteroids in a week!! Rubin is here and it is amazing! 🔭🧪🛰️

The pulsar is totally fine! Just adds a little flair to the neighborhood!

The summer solstice is a bittersweet day for me. It marks the start of summer, my favorite season, and I have much lovely weather to look forward to (👋 June gloom). But it's also the beginning of the inexorable march of decreasing sunlight...

I started writing the script for this video on March 29, recorded April 13, and have been editing it ever since, and I just finished the thumbnail and uploaded for Monday! Phew!

Never thought I'd see the day when cowards were running USNA. www.usni.org/magazines/pr...

Muon is just as magnetic as predicted, requiring no new theory to explain. scim.ag/43u1BFr

The moon is waxing and it's almost time for another Gibbous Guide! Subscribe now if you want to get it in your inbox 😃 (You *can* also read it online, but fun fact, the subscription version has an extra little personal note at the top. But maybe that's a disincentive 😅) ngttg.kit.com

Oh wow, Isaacman is out as NASA Administrator nominee. I wasn't hugely in favor but he had previously stated "a ~50% reduction to NASA’s science budget does not appear to be an optimal outcome" and said he would prioritize Artemis over Mars if necessary. www.semafor.com/article/05/3...

I saw someone defending the use of em-dashes as an AI indicator because it's "hard to find" when typing. As if I haven't had ALT+0151 memorized for decades!!!

To be 100% clear, I oppose attacks on all science. But like it just boggles my mind to gut NASA. People love NASA! Astronomy is like the least offensive scientific discipline! Really drives home the senselessness of it all.