Starting my internship at Amentum today, working out at Kennedy Space Center, has me feeling a bit like this, honestly ... been waiting so long for today 🚀✨🤩

Another cool Martian cloud spotted by CNSA Tianwen 1... and yes, Mars does have clouds! Full size & info: flic.kr/p/2r2HXah Image Processing: Andrea Luck Raw data: CNSA/CLEP/PEC/MoRIC Mars, Protonilus Mensae - March 1, 2022 #planetsci 🧪

astronaut don pettit’s new image made my jaw drop. it’s SO beautiful!!!

“Together, these actions will make people in the United States and around the world less prosperous and more vulnerable.” “We at Nature denounce this assault on science. And we encourage the global research community, wherever they can, to voice their opposition.”

Have to say, a malicious government run by oligarchs relentlessly slashing jobs and programs that’s mixed with destructive tariffs, maxed out debt, historic inequality, and AI as a product that doesn’t make money despite having all the major corporations going all in hashes out to economic disaster.

May Snow Falkor brighten your timeline today!

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

Well, we finally let down our guard one too many times and after 2.5 years since my and @astrosherie.space's first round of COVID, it's finally caught us a second time ... really didn't miss feeling this sick 🤧🤒😫

After @astrosherie.space and I lost our beloved Katniss earlier this month, we decided to adopt this beautiful furbaby that we've named Katie...already now known as also Katie-Kat, Katie Cane, Katie the Koala & the Velveteen Rabbit (very soft)! She is scared but sweet & has claimed the linen closet!

Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025?

Sadly, @atmocheryl.space & I had to say goodbye to our sweet, beautiful Katniss last night. She was 14 and battling recent lymphoma. She had the best purrs & adorable cheeps & saw us through 3 moves, our B.S. degrees & a million memories. She's completely irreplaceable & we will miss her forever! 🌈😇

LOL love this so much! Here are my and @astrosherie.space's girls! Katniss on the left and Kenzie on the right - not a brain cell between the two of them (what did you expect, they're orange?!) #CatsOfBluesky ... Credit to @daralind.bsky.social ✨

AHHHHH it’s finally time!!! I just published my exclusive interview with the one and only Dr. Jill Tarter, founder of @setiinstitute.bsky.social, renowned astronomer, and the inspiration behind Ellie Arroway’s character in Carl Sagan’s Contact 👽

@hbesing.bsky.social Huge congratulations on your PhD!! 🎉🥳🎓 @astrosherie.space and I watched you get hooded by @drlwx.bsky.social on the Florida Tech Livestream today!!

Just for fun? What's the oldest song in your Christmas collection (if you listen to Christmas music)? @astrosherie.space & I listen to lots of modern songs but we do have several in our list from the 1950's, one of the oldest is Kay Starr's "The Man with the Bag" 🎅, still one of our very favorites!

Milestone for my team at work, really proud to drop our NASA 2024 Moon to Mars Architecture updates today! www.nasa.gov/architecture 1/

More photos have been released showing the Artemis II SLS Core Stage fully lowered into the new High Bay 2 Vertical Work Cell. Here technicians now have full access to every part of the stage, both internal and externally, allowing more work to be done prior to mating with the SRBs next year. 📸NASA

Got to see the launch of this cool mission in 2021 w/ @astrosherie.space - awesome to see it swing back around again! At 11:15 pm, Dec 12, Lucy will make its closest approach... about 220 miles above the ocean west of CA... and will streak over N. America in only 7 minutes! youtu.be/lIhF82kVjzk?...

Via #NASAJPL - What caused the #Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter's hard landing during its final fateful flight earlier this year? Engineers from JPL and AeroVironment are performing the first aircraft accident investigation on another world. Here's what they know so far: go.nasa.gov/4fbOBXx

Day 10 of #ArtAdventCalendar The iconic Mars exploration duo, Perseverance and Ingenuity 🧡 #sciart #spaceart

Satellite view of the smoke from #FranklinFire near Malibu 🔥 zoom.earth/fires/us-ca-...

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✨#JWST jewelry giveaway time! 🤩 Available to win are 3 of my best-selling #JWST jewelry pieces! ✨ 💫 How to participate: 1) follow me 2) enter here sciencesocks.com/giveaway 3) like & repost 🚨 P.S.: please consider sciencesocks.com for your holiday gifts this year :) 🔭🐡🧪🎨

What happened in space last month? Glad you asked! Here's a roundup of the biggest stories you might have missed 👇🏻 Check out my latest YouTube video for commentary & more stories youtu.be/Xq2h3VaGHb4?... 🧵

Launching into the weekend Locals enjoying an on time delivery of Starlink satellites to orbit. We'll have to see which booster took a second flight (FH converted booster) when it arrives back to port.

I absolutely LOVE reading these Annual Reports that #NASAKennedy publishes - full of their accomplishments, lots of gorgeous photos, & interesting articles 🤩 If you've never read one before, I highly recommend taking a look at the new 2024 edition! Download at this link: www.nasa.gov/kennedy/abou...

Yes, VERY different... but still very cool! These photos were taken at KSC's Family Day last year, that my sister @astrosherie.space so nicely invited me and our parents to! #NASAKennedy

Via #NASAHistoryOffice - The final three Apollo astronauts to visit the Moon were launched #OTD in 1972 on Apollo 17. Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent the most time on the Moon's surface, travelled the furthest using the lunar rover, and returned the most samples of any Apollo mission.

Happy #Caturday from our sweet angel Katniss who is still here with us! 🧡 She's had a bit of a struggle lately but we've been working with her vet closely to determine the best ways to help her out & to help make other decisions when it's time. Just grateful for each day & every purr! #CatsOfBluesky

Happy #Caturday from Kenzie, who still acts like a kitten even though she's 12 years old! How could you not love this face!? 🧡 #CatsOfBluesky #BlueCats

Blocking anyone who is mildly sus immediately and without particular emotional engagement is obviously the best way to go but once in a while it would be nice to have a block option that ALSO produces an animation of the profile being flushed down a toilet or maybe the text melting gruesomely away

Decided to make a little lateral shift in our grad programs to Space Systems Management, so @astrosherie.space and I will be taking Spacecraft Environment, Commercial Enterprise in Space, and Strategic Project Management courses in the Spring! Feeling pretty excited about it! 🚀

Well, this is unfortunate, if not surprising - "...Boeing is cutting 26 positions at Kennedy Space Center, 20 in Titusville, and 1 at Cape Canaveral. ...layoffs are expected to begin on Jan. 17, for most employees, and bumping rights do not exist." mynews13.com/fl/orlando/n... #Aerospace #SpaceCoast

The Paradox of Tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, NOT as a moral standard, but as a social contract. If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, they are not covered by it. In other words, the intolerant aren't deserving of your tolerance.

🔭 NGC 300: A Galaxy of Stars Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Stern apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24120...

Hey @blueskystarterpack.com please add: go.bsky.app/No8DWnZ

The Roman telescope’s Optical Telescope Assembly (which consists of the mirror & electronics) has been attached to the instrument carrier here at #NASA Goddard! 🎉 Check out these gorgeous new photos 🤩

Agree — I was online as it was unfolding and checked news websites and BSky beat them in terms of speed of information (includes the general public input/alert, official agency data output, scientist and science communicator responses). Critical mass here for rapid information distribution network.

This was a big earthquake (M7) and there will likely be felt aftershocks. Drop, cover and hold on when you feel earthquake shaking. If you are near the coast immediately move away from shore and seek high ground.

@bsky.app - rotating photos when?! 🙏

I have to stop and stare at this photo every time I see it - one of my absolute favorites from #JWST and currently set as the wallpaper on my MacBook! ✨ I love how impossibly big the universe feels when I look at images like this!

Just a reminder to PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE use the alt text when posting pix. This helps visually impaired folks, but also anyone if there is something in the photo that not everyone will get (like movie stills or pix of people who could be identified, for example).

In 2023 I talked to @kevinmgill.bsky.social for a feature on how much we can trust digital photos. I couldn't include all his fascinating expertise — e.g. the explicit, conscious choices he makes about colors that most of us just leave up to our phones. I love his work. www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...

Decided to create a starter pack to highlight some of the awesome women of BlueSky that are connected to space in some way! ✨ If you don't want to be on this list (for any reason), please let me know, and I'll be happy to remove you. If I missed someone, suggestions are welcome! go.bsky.app/No8DWnZ

Holy wow, this is gorgeous! I need to go visit more of the Northwest!! 🤩 #Yellowstone

Planning to be near the Space Coast on December 12? Join me and @astrosherie.space at the Cape AIAA Winter Dinner - 'Artemis Behind the Scenes: Why SLS & Orion?' featuring Dan Dumbacher, former NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems. 🚀✨ Get tix here: tinyurl.com/capeaiaa-artem…

Kill FEMA, kill human beings. Period.