Remember you don’t need a PhD to work in the space field. Sometimes all you need is IT business experience. This might be YOU!!

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The Rubins at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory 💖 We were delighted and honored to welcome members of Vera Rubin's family to Cerro Pachón for a recent tour of Rubin Observatory ✨ Thank you so much for visiting! 🔭

@leefeinberg.bsky.social is the BOSS - congrats, Lee!

Do you like seeing the amazing science from JWST and Hubble 🔭? Are you a seasoned leader of Science Communication who wants to see more of this? Space Telescope Science Institute's Office of Public Outreach is seeking a Division Head! Apply here: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Thanks for that, Steve...

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Charlemagne “assists” in the making of the valentines door wreath

Let’s give a big #caturday welcome to young Charlemagne! Metatron finds him acceptable as long as Charlemagne respects Met’s personal space.

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

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One more heartbreak to process 💔 - fare thee well, Bobby

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For those who are wondering... Who is AURA? 🔭🧪 @stsci.edu @noirlabastro.bsky.social

Kenneth Chang @kchang.bsky.social @ NYT reviews the new telescope 🔭 system being pursued under the patronage of the Schmidt Sciences team, with some closing thoughts by me . . . www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/s...

The interior of Uranus may be even weirder than you thought… 😉 www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-01...

STScI astronomer Kailash Sahu will receive the 2026 Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize from the American Astronomical Society. He was recognized for his work using microlensing to detect isolated black holes and measure the masses of stars: https://news.stsci.edu/4poB18k #AAS247

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Funded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be bigger than Hubble and the first-ever full-scale private space telescope. By @nadiadrake.bsky.social. www.scientificamerican.com/article/schm...

Stoked for HWO! 🚀 🔭 🪐

ok who gave The Onion my phd thesis

Great opportunity at @stsci.edu to lead the Institute's Public Outreach division. Based in Baltimore, and STScI supports hybrid work. Details here: recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/... 🔭

Metatron approved of the subject matter, but felt that the timing infringed on his feeding schedule

no cheating, repost with the most recent pic of your pet(s)

This morning I saw a news clip about the increasing flu epidemic, and noticed they only interviewed “former CDC officials” on how to protect yourself and others. For which I guess I am grateful?

Stop. Read the post below. Do what it says. Look at Earth - our home world - from the surface of Mars. You are a terranaut on that fragile planet. This moment brought to you courtesy of NASA Science.

Jupiter in the infrared imaged by the Gemini North 8m telescope

Finished my Catmas Chaos puzzle with Bea’s help

You know what to do

Happy Fourth Launchiversary, JWST! And thanks to Richard Panek for this lovely mini review of JWST science… time.com/7342406/jame...

Happy holidays all!

The sky above Rubin is giving some serious festive-season glitter vibes ✨ NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's dome is coated with aluminum, which reflects sunlight during the day and cools off slowly at night. This prevents thermal turbulence near the telescope, keeping images crisp. 🔭🧪

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Europa Clipper observations of comet #I/ATLAS released - Clipper had a unique vantage point to study the comet's tails

Should be a great talk!

Yesterday’s official opening of the new “Windows on the Universe” outreach center on Kitt Peak near Tucson AZ noirlab.edu/public/news/...

HiRISE is an amazing camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) that has been mapping the surface of Mars since MRO arrived at Mars in 2006! That's two decades and 100,000 images of stunning views of the Red Planet.

You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for... 🔭

New results from the International Gemini Observatory 🔭 on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, in which it continues to do fun cometary things! The new spectrum confirms 3I/ATLAS is actively emitting CN, C3, and C2 gases, plus a visible dust fan. www.astronomerstelegram.org?read=17503

Amazing 3-D effect in this JWST image of the tip of HH 49/50. The dusty tip of this nearby "cosmic tornado" is so thin that it allows a more distant spiral galaxy to shine through (science.nasa.gov/asset/webb/h...) More info in this Sci-Am story: www.scientificamerican.com/article/cosm...

As an astronomer I get asked a lot what kind of telescope 🔭 so-and-so should get for themselves or their [spouse/kid/etc]. I’m clueless. I use BIG telescopes and have never purchased one in my life. But @philplait.bsky.social knows! Thx, Phil! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ban-275-te...

A “Dressbarn” in Muncie, Indiana had been named the inaugural winner of the FIFA “Most Super Glamorous Parisian Haute Couture” award.

Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns. Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

Fun. I think this makes it a total of 12 main-belt comets . . .

Today’s “CDC” apparently stands for Center for Disease Continuity. Sad. I miss the old CDC that used fact-based evidence to try to control disease and protect helpless newborns from entirely preventable illness.

This is great news that Roman Space Telescope 🚀🔭 is functionally completed! Still some testing, and then Roman will move the Kennedy to be mated with the launch vehicle. Roman is a wide-field Hubble - exciting!

I have eaten the planets that were in the inner solar system and which you were probably saving for living on Forgive me they were delicious so crunchy and so warm

Happy Thanksgiving :) @desisurvey.bsky.social

Since the CDC site can no longer be trusted, what are your alternative go-to sites for science-based medical information. Mayo Clinic? Cleveland Clinic? JHU medical? European sites? Thoughts welcome.

Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry. 1/? ⚛️🔭🧪 science.nasa.gov/missions/web...