Today, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope leaves NASA Goddard for the Port of Baltimore to begin its journey to the Kennedy Space Center. This August, Roman will launch into space, broadening our understanding of our solar system & universe. Excited to see it on the move!

For @tedstryk.bsky.social

This about sums it up. #history

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

Feeling a little sheepish 🐑🏗️ Shaun the Sheep sat in front of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building earlier today, where the Space Launch System, with Orion and its European Service Module on top, were stacked 🚀 Big rocket, big teamwork 🌍🤝

Shaun the Sheep has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and is at the press site, ready to cheer on his fellow astronauts for #Artemis II 🚀🐑 From Mossy Bottom in Europe to the United States - he wouldn’t miss this for the world!

Positive stellar occultation by @spacemarschall.net asteroid (33937) Raphaelmarschall captured just yesterday morning!

All packed up for a road trip to catch the shadow of Jupiter's moon Kallichore for @science.esa.int JUICE mission. 🇦🇨🔭

Husband redid the office clock. IYKYK.

Comet 3I Atlas in PUNCH WFI imagers. This is a stack of all images from all three WFI imagers on 3-October. The streaks are from a star removal process. Thanks to Simon Porter for building this.

New Horizons makes its mark on history as it speeds past Pluto, Charon and Arrokoth. Excellent #space #art by @gtgraphics.bsky.social www.artstation.com/artwork/Zl98PN

Heads up to attendees of #epscdps2025 - there will be a splinter session about Solar System planning for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) in the Ganymede Room TODAY (Weds) at 3 pm!

you know we love to make new friends! @skrutskie.bsky.social & Briana Johnson both visited this weekend! We’ve got signed copies of A LEGIONNAIRE’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND PEACE & THE SALVATION GAMBIT from Emily, and Briana’s IF I COULD GO BACK! Check them out!

Today we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Pluto flyby by the New Horizons spacecraft in the place where we were when it happened. It was nice catching up with colleagues from different phases of the mission. It was a time of celebration with an eye to the future.

Ten years ago today, New Horizons completed the initial reconnaissance of the solar system that began with Luna 2 in 1959. All the major worlds we set out to explore had been visited at least once. And being a part of it was a once in a lifetime experience I'll never forget.

A LEGIONNAIRE'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND PEACE is out today! If the words "a romantasy for bisexual jocks" pique your interest, this is the book for you. It means a lot to share this story with the world, and I'm so grateful for all the love it's received. 💙📚 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/771397...

Here's the playlist for A LEGIONNAIRE'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND PEACE, for all your "oops I hooked up with my battle partner because we both expected to die and then didn't" needs: open.spotify.com/playlist/656... 💙📚

Last day to enter this giveaway! 📚💙

🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 ahhh! 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 (Sound of my stress level going down)

Can you really board a plane bound for Pluto? Sign me up!!! ✈️

MEET EMORY! My sister, Sarah Skrutskie, illustrated my devoted shieldbearer absolutely perfectly. Emory is the love interest of A LEGIONNAIRE'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND PEACE, out 6/24/2025 from Del Rey! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/771397...

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Hey #BookSky 💙📚, the ebook of my sci-fi thriller is currently on sale, but only for the next 24 hours! If punchy hackers, diabolical warship AIs with god complexes, and conwomen are your flavor, don't miss out on THE SALVATION GAMBIT! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708770...

😬 “James Tuttle Keane, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory – for innovative and groundbreaking planetary geophysics research, and renowned planetary science illustrations” www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/...

Hello, New Place! I'm Emily Skrutskie, a SFF author with seven novels under my belt and an eighth on the way. By day, I'm a VFX software engineer, and very early in the morning you can find me scrambling around on plastic rocks. My last selfie was in my Halloween costume, for all you JJK enjoyers:

From a grocery store deep into the path of totality. 🌑

They sure are. Listening to Dr Paul's lecture at the national academies building.

Results (two chords!) from recent occultation by (9726) Verbiscer:

Success! I got to be in the shadow of my own asteroid 9726 Verbiscer! Near Chugwater Wyoming. About 5.5 km diameter. Not too shabby! 🤩🔭

Had to rush home from a solstice party to see this occultation by asteroid (32191) Bensharkey! @erinleeryan.bsky.social

Betelgeuse occulted by asteroid (319) Leona, from Alicante, Spain.

Near El Castell de Guadalest

Barcelona-bound to be bedazzled by Betelgeuse when it's occulted by minor body (319) Leona on Monday night.

Why are 'moon moons' exciting? A very short 🧵 🪐🔭🧪

New by me for Sky & Telescope: "Lucy Mission Flies By Asteroid Dinkinesh, Finds a Little Surprise" skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

I mean, who can blame the poor little space rock for being worried?

We are currently receiving data from @LucyMission after its encounter with asteroid #Dinkinesh this morning. The spacecraft is approximately 482 million kilometres (300 million miles) from Earth. More on the mission website: lucy.swri.edu

New article by me for Sky & Telescope about Yukun Huang's talk at #DPSEPSC2023 yesterday: "'Planet X' May Have Left Our Solar System Billions of Years Ago" skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

Always gives me a little thrill to see a scientist using a graphic I made to give context to their presentation. Especially when it’s someone as eminent as Bill McKinnon, who’s receiving the Kuiper (career) prize at #DPSEPSC2023

Another occultation at nearly full Moon - this time by large contact binary(?) TNO Chaos. Can't wait to see the results!

Moon was even brighter on the next night. Guess they know what causes that. 🤔🧐 Still a lovely site with no wind this time.

Blurry pic because of high winds but otherwise it's a lovely observing site lit by the full moon.