Happy Pride Month! 🌈☀️ Here’s the Sun today, blended between: ❤️ AIA 304 Å 🧡 AIA 193 Å 💛 AIA 171 Å 💚 AIA 94 Å 🩵 AIA 131 Å 💙 AIA 335 Å 💜 AIA 211 Å #pridemonth #NASA #heliophysics #sun #sunscience #lgbtqia
Cappy Bunn ☀️
@astrobunn.bsky.social
Solar astrophysics PhD candidate ☀️ NASA FINESST ✨ FURST instrument scientist 🚀 drives the IRIS satellite sometimes 🛰️ Montana State University 🏔️
Happy First Contact Day from Bozeman, MT (where it is now an official city holiday)! 🖖 Ad astra! ✨
An anomaly occurred with the spacecraft while observing AR 14392… Fastest IRIS raster ever! ☀️😅 #solarphysics #sunscience #spaceweather #instrumentation #anomaly #sun
Just finished directing a Sun-observing satellite and now we’re gonna go watch Project Hail Mary! 🚀☀️🪨
Aurora from Bozeman, MT on 11/11! Very bright around 6:45 PM MST, then picked back up around 10 PM. ☀️💜💚 #aurora #spaceweather #sunscience #heliophysics
Me: *lamenting that I haven’t caught any amazing flares with the IRIS satellite lately* My fiancé who’s been directing that satellite a lot longer than me: “You sweet solar maximum child.” #heliophysics #sunscience #solarphysics
Enjoying all the daylight here in Alaska for #AAS246! ☀️ I’ll be giving my first SPD talk on Wednesday! I also came prepared with a PUNCH lanyard and fun pins! 🚀🛰️ #heliophysics
It’s easy to say “yes” to the dress when it’s made from the space-flown parachute that carried my experiment safely back to Earth! 🚀☀️ Designers found, docs signed, payment sent — I’m officially getting my dream wedding gown made from material that’s been to space!!! 🪂👰🏼♀️✨
Caught some awesome solar limb activity with the IRIS satellite! 🤩☀️🛰️ (AR13998) #heliophysics #sunscience #LMSAL
Happened to point IRIS at active region 13993 on my sister's birthday (born in '93) and caught some fun eruptions! @roytsmart.bsky.social and I worked on a custom color map of her fav colors and turned it into a bday card! #heliophysics #sunscience
The Moon is sneaking into IRIS’s solar observations this Friday! 🌑🛰️ I’m directing the Sun-observing IRIS satellite this week, and we’re aiming to catch a grazing event as the Moon briefly photobombs our view of the Sun. ☀️📸👀 #sunscience #heliophysics #lunarphotobomb
Happy Valentine’s Day, Sol-mate! ☀️☺️ This heart-shaped CME was captured last year, but it’s too cute to not share again! #valentinesday #heliophysics #sunscience #NASAValentines
Howdy, 🦋! I’m Cappy—an art major turned physicist working on my PhD! I study solar and stellar atmospheres in VUV using data from space-based telescopes, and I build solar telescopes that launch on sounding rockets. 🚀☀️ #instrumentation #sunscience #heliophysics When I’m not sungazing, I like to…
My Grandpa Wiley and I both pointing out dents in our rockets. 🚀 …and both holding the hard hat that Grandma Margaret painted for him! #nasa #msfc #wsmr #sunscience
The launch of FURST! This is the suborbital sounding rocket I’ve been working on for the past 5 years. It’s meant to observe the VUV spectrum of the Sun as a star! 🚀☀️✨