Apply to join the summer 2026 NASA EarthRISE Developers Academy! Use NASA Earth observations to address real-world challenges. Sites in Virginia, Colorado, and Alabama. Virtual opportunities too. Due Friday, March 6. appliedsciences.nasa.gov/what-we-do/c... #nature #coding #data #agriculture #water

Can comets be different colors? You bet! To learn more about comets, read Cosmic Collisions: Asteroid vs Comet! a.co/d/0jbtWVx4 #astronomy #astrophotography #kidlit #booksky

Huge new library of calibrated, high-resolution solar eclipse images you can play with! science.nasa.gov/get-involved... #astrophotography #nature #naturephotography #astronomy #news #citizenscience

Join fellow aurora chasers, and scientists for an online Report-A-Thon, Saturday, March 7, 7-10 p.m. EST! Hang out with aurora lovers, help advance aurora science, & talk to experts from Aurorasaurus. science.nasa.gov/sciact-team/... #astrophotography #nature #photography #citizenscience

Magueyes Island Marine Research station. Home to Prof. Roy Armstrong’s awesome autonomous vehicle lab. #puertorico #science #oceans

The 265' fuel barge Defiant has been stuck on the rocks off the San Felipe del Morro Castle shoreline—in view of all the tourists. It makes creepy noises too. #puertorico

Air Force veteran Kimberly O’Brien explains why NASA citizen science and veterans go together so well. www.military.com/feature/2026...

New Yorkers, Come to this event at the American Museum of Natural History Feb 24 and find out how you can help NASA make scientific discoveries! www.amnh.org/calendar/cit... #citizenscience #astrophotography

Apply for a summer 2026 internship helping out NASA Citizen Science teams! lnkd.in/eYCNVNYF

Check out the color of the Open Nature Blue Heirlooms compared to the Vitals. It’s hard to see it but the Blue Heirlooms yolk is much taller too. #cooking #food

FEB 11 6:30 PM ET Join the webinar "Cosmic Pioneers: Discovering Distant Galaxies Together"! Meet the scientist behind NASA's Dark Energy Explorers, a project you can join as an amateur scientist to help make largest map of the universe yet! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #astrophotography #news

The 1st planet candidate w/Earth-like radius & orbit transiting a Sun-like star bright enough for serious follow-up. Congrats to citizen scientists Alexander Venner, Hans Martin Schwengeler, Martti H. Kristiansen, Mark Omohundro & Ivan A. Terentev! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... #news #astronomy

Awesome fireball over New Zealand yesterday! #astronomy #news #astrophotography

New map of the closest pair of colliding ultraluminous spiral galaxies shows powerful winds shaped by magnetic fields arxiv.org/abs/2510.26570 #astronomy #news #cosmiccollisions

More than 650 amateur scientists have now become coauthors of published, refereed scientific papers through their work on NASA citizen science. science.nasa.gov/citizen-scie... #astrophotography #space #news

Asteroids, the classic video game! Just a few reactions here from this astrophysics nerd. #gaming #physics

A spectacular gallery of dusty disks around nearby stars from the ALMA radio telescope. www.aanda.org/articles/aa/... #astronomy #news

Happy Birthday, MLK Jr.! (On the 15th). We sure need you again today! My favorite quote: “Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”

Thanks to @cephalopernicus.bsky.social for this correction!

The spinniest asteroid! Goes around once every 1.9 seconds. #astronomy #news

Behold! The infinity galaxy! #astronomy

Cool new results from the Webb telescope on colliding dwarf galaxies! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... #astronomy #cosmiccollisions #news

New NASA citizen science project alert! www.zooniverse.org/projects/vic... #astrophotography #space #science #news #scienceathome

What’s Cloud-9? #astronomy #astrophotography #space ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025ApJ....

Seen in a Florida restaurant…what’s wrong with this picture?

Thanks to all the Cosmic Collisions fans who have sent me cards!! See they’re on my wall. a.co/d/5SOFhZw #writingcommunity #booksky #booktok #kidlit

This 'runway' blackhole moving at 2.2 million miles per hour may be the result of a #cosmiccollision arxiv.org/abs/2512.04166 #astronomy #news #space

Gorgeous colliding spiral galaxies for your holiday pleasure! #cosmiccollisions images from JWST and Chandra. #astrophotography #space

Hear Chaim the Chanukah Snowman on Amazon Music! music.amazon.com/artists/B000... #hanukkah #song #funny #texas

The Penguin and the Egg. I love this Hubble image of colliding galaxies! No, the telescope does not travel to the galaxies to take the picture. #astrophotography #space

Another poof of dust in Fomalhaut’s debris ring! #cosmiccollisions #astronomy #space #news

Introducing: Chaim the Chanukah Snowman! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ytW.... Thanks to Joe Buchanan for the lead vocals! Chaim is also a picture book manuscript and a one-act play. Available on iTunes, Apple Music etc. #Hanukkah #writingcommunity #Jewish #kidlit

NASA volunteers have been monitoring 274 lakes around the world! A new paper shows their impact. science.nasa.gov/get-involved... #science #news

Wishing you all a happy hypothesis and a cosmic new year! #gifts #kids #childrensbooks #kidlit #xmas #chanukah a.co/d/cyR9hbd

Holmium has the highest magnetic permeability of any element. Love those 67 protons! #science #chemistry

Today! Bring the family and help astronomers wrangle distant galaxies! pages.scistarter.org/nasa-live/ #citizenscience #scienceathome #space

NASA’s Hubble space telescope has spawned at least six different #citizenscience projects. science.nasa.gov/mission/hubb...

Join a Zoom call with astronomers on NASA's Redshift Wrangler team and Do NASA Science! This Thursday, Dec 11. 6:30 pm ET. #citizenscience us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Do you care how land is used and what's happening to our planet? Love #citizenscience? You can now sign up to get regular emails comparing GLOBE Observer Land Cover observations with satellite data (Landsat and Sentinel-2). science.nasa.gov/learning-res... #earth #scienceathome

Citizen Science shines in NASA's December calendar: science.nasa.gov/multimedia/d... Congrats to @spritacular.bsky.social! #nature #photography #clouds

Duendes rojos sobre el castillo de Beynac. La imagen fue obtenida por el científico ciudadano Nicolas Escurat. ciencia.nasa.gov/multimedia/d... #hola #nature #photography #storm #space #nasa #español

Thank you for sciencing with us!! #citizenscience

Greetings, NASA Volunteers and Citizen Scientists, This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for you! In just the last few months, you’ve...

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

I’m thankful for the many who spent their days landscaping terraces whose beauty I will never admire but for one glance at the spine of a book I won’t read—but whose wracking labors have enriched me by allowing me the freedom to ignore them. #kidlitchat #writing

Descubre cometas usando los primeros datos del observatorio Vera Rubin! ciencia.nasa.gov/sistema-sola... #español #hola

Please share this with any librarians you know! Librarians: our new Toolkit can help you share opportunities to Do NASA Science with your patrons and community members. science.nasa.gov/get-involved... #citizenscience #scienceathome #stem #space

Shoutout to Emma S. Clark library in Setauket, NY. This was my hometown library growing up! #writingcommunity #booksky #kidlit

Bosons are fundamental particles that can be in the same place at the same time—just like the wakes from two ferry boats crossing at right angles. #physics #nature