This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

They also model Reflect Orbital's stupid idea, showing that with giant mirrors in orbit, the entire night sky worldwide would become as bright as in a typical suburb, even if you're outside their beams.

If you were wondering what those bright flames were seen in this infrared view - those are RCS puffs to bring the capsule in an optimal landing orientation to reduce impact loading during splashdown #Artemis

I want to be an astronaut, but I don’t want to go on missions. I just want to take intense courses on lunar geology and photography as part of my job.

My cat, who I loved with my whole heart, died a couple of years ago. I’ve had her picture on my phone lock screen ever since. Until last week, when I changed it one of the amazing #Artemis pics. In case you were wondering how healing that mission has been.

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

50% of US Nobel Prize winners in science over the past 125 years have been immigrants (and 40% since 2000). The US has been a scientific powerhouse not because Americans are smarter but because of immigration and research funding. Both are under attack. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

How can we use this moment, when so many people are in love with space again, to connect it to the broader picture where science funding is actually in a perilous position?

If you're wondering why Earth looks so distorted - its a result from the SuperView capture mode enabled on the GoPro HERO4 to stetch the native 4:3 image to 16:9. Here I'm showing the unstretching process I'm applying in Blender. #Artemis

That’s quite a view as Artemis approaches Earth. 🔭

Just found out that the #Artemis crew are all Gen X (5-10 years older than me). That’s a relief. I still have time to make something of my life.

The USPS can't "run out of money," the sole question is the people in charge of the federal government believe delivering mail is worth funding the same way they already fund armed kidnapping gangs, concentration camps, and blowing up girls' schools.

This is so horrifying on so many levels. Again, please call your members of congress and beyond - The states should fight this hard too. The impact is ... difficult to comprehend.

I wanna point out something serious. The admin has been complaining about Iran winning the information war. This same administration shut down Voice of America, and other information operations the US govt does. It’s a self goal. Actions have consequences

Must be weird going to CVS after you just went to the Moon

WOOLY NEPTUNES *stuffs some in my socks* iykyk

You only have to look at how NASA names planetary/lunar missions to understand how important human traits are to the agency's mission.

“If we can’t take love to the stars, then why do we even go?” - Amit Kshatriya, NASA Associate Administrator

This might be one of my favorites from Artemis II. A cinematic alignment of the Moon and Earth, each cradled within the warmth of sunbeams. Taken from behind the Moon on April 6th. flic.kr/p/2s6BABn

I will ABSOLUTELY not be watching this, but in the spirit of self promotion, here is me promoting Dark Sky Week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZhK...

Shit this is dire, I didn't realize it was getting so bad so fast for the world's largest penguin, jumping categories on their rapid descent to "endangered" status I guess collapsing breeding colonies would do that www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

Does anyone else's brain have a Waiting Mode before an appointment *and* a Recovery Mode after the appointment? I basically lose at least 3 hours for an appointment that only takes one.

I just got done being interviewed about #darkskyweek for this local news station video podcast thing and it was so much fun! I see why people want to podcast for a living.

Once again, the national average pay for adjunct professors with PhDs is a flat fee of $3900 per course.

I think this is true, and part of the Everything is Gender theory. We are governed by that section of the populace that believes that Father having violent tantrums until everyone else cowers, even as his life falls apart around him, was an aspirational display of power and mastery.

Just saying here, though I know this is already establishing itself as a meme--there are _a_lot_ of people out there who think they know how the phases of the Moon work but they don't. The same is true for the seasons. The science education literature is pretty well established on this very topic.

Come on then, and remove him.

Some stars/planets identified

ngl it is very hard to work today

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

NGL they picked a great time to be as far from Earth as humanly possible

I am begging you: take a couple minutes and look at the images from yesterday’s lunar flyby. They are absolutely incredible www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

Postcards from the far side www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2... #Artemis 🔭🧪

Nuremberg was an important symbol of German nationhood so I say with 100% sincerity that this is a job for Philadelphia

The accomplishments and realizations of this mission aren't only scientific discovery and feats of engineering.

I need to fire up the old Cricut and make more moon stickers.

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

Oh my god, I have a job to do. I wish the most exciting thing to happen in my lifetime and the scariest thing to happen in my lifetime wouldn't happen at the same time. I can't live like this.

The new Earthrise photo for this generation 🌖 🌍 🚀 🙂 #NASA #ArtemisII

Safety first! Even all the way out in space - when looking at an eclipse, you should always wear your protective eyewear. Like the #ArtemisII crew did here - the most distant use of eclipse glasses ever! Original: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

FYI if you’re talking about the #Artemis II mission and you want to get the spaceflight terminology right, the mission is “crewed,” not “manned.” (NASA made the terminology change official decades ago, so this isn’t new, but a lot of folks just aren’t aware.)

I always think I'm too cynical to get truly swept up in the Artemis missions until I hear exactly one syllable come out of one of the Artemis II crew members mouths and then I'm sobbing.

Does anyone know if the little Artemis II mascot will be available for us mortals? It’s so cute 🥰

become ungovernable

THE NUTELLA HAS COME LOOSE

The NASA #Artemis II tracking website: www.nasa.gov/missions/art... It includes a nice moveable visualization of the Moon, the spacecraft, the Sun, and the Earth, so you can get a feel for the relative positions of them all.

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country