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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

🪐 utsa/swri physics phd student | ❄️ europa clipper grad affiliate | 🚀 nasa solar system ambassador space news • photos • facts ↓ links https://beacons.ai/astrojaz

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Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 19h ago

SUBMITTED MY ABSTRACT FOR MY FIRST CONFERENCE AS A GRAD STUDENT!!! CAN’T WAIT TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THE EUROPA WORK I’VE BEEN DOING 🥹

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa with brown cracks running across its surface.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 21h ago

sending this image in an email explaining why i can’t get work done

My black cat Nova resting his head on my notes.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 3d ago

blurry pictures from space are so human

A blurry photo of the Milky Way from Artemis II

A blurry and oversaturated photo of the crescent Earth from Artemis II

A blurry photo of the eclipse from Artemis II

A blurry photo of the stars from Artemis II

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 4d ago

i’m obsessed with this very specific genre of photo

A color photograph looking outward through the interior of a spacecraft toward a thin crescent Earth suspended in space. Dark structural elements of the spacecraft frame the view, with the window opening forming an irregular border around the planet. The illuminated crescent floats near the center of the image against a deep black sky. Reflections from the spacecraft interior and faint alignment markings are visible on the window, emphasizing that the photograph was taken from inside the spacecraft.

A color photograph of Earth’s curved horizon viewed through a circular spacecraft window. The dark window frame creates a round border around the scene, while Earth’s blue atmosphere, white cloud systems, and sunlit surface occupy the lower left portion of the view. The upper right portion fades into the blackness of space with a single bright point of light visible beyond Earth’s limb. The composition highlights both the spacecraft window and the planet beyond it.

A color photograph of a half-illuminated Moon viewed through a spacecraft window. The thick, multi-layered window frame surrounds the left and lower edges of the image, with alternating white, black, and reddish sealing rings visible around the glass. The cratered lunar surface is sharply lit against the blackness of space and appears centered in the window. A smaller, bright crescent Earth is visible near the right edge of the frame, while scattered stars and a few small reflections on the window glass appear throughout the dark background.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 4d ago

i just found the BEST photo from artemis ii.

The Moon and crescent Earth seen from the window of Integrity during Artemis II. There is some slight dust on the outside of the window, giving the photo a vintage and grainy feel.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 5d ago

apollo 15 (1971) | artemis ii (2026)

Crescent Earth above the Moon seen from Apollo 15

Crescent Earth above the Moon seen from Artemis II.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 6d ago

what my eyes see / what my phone sees

An incredibly detailed photo of the Moon in the night sky. The craters and mare are visible as well as a few stars in the sky.

Credit: Andrew McCarthy

A picture of the Moon taken with a phone camera. It looks like a bright white ball in the night sky with no discernible features.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 6d ago

one month from today, the nancy grace roman telescope will launch. from mapping BILLIONS of stars and galaxies, to creating the first highly accurate 3d structural map of dark matter, roman is going to change astronomy and everyone should be excited.

An artist’s rendition of the Roman telescope in space.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 7d ago

YALL THE MOON IS SO PRETTY TONIGHT GO LOOK AT HER!!!

A picture of the full moon taken from my phone. It is bright against the dark night sky.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 7d ago

obsessed with this picture from artemis ii because you can see the reflection in the window of whoever was taking the photo and it just makes it more human

Just above the smooth, curved crest of the lunar horizon, a small, brightly lit crescent Earth is visible, appearing to rise or set over the Moon. Faint reflections, glare, and hints of an astronaut's silhouette or equipment from inside the Orion spacecraft cabin window blur the upper half of the composition, giving a distinct perspective of looking out from inside a vehicle.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · last wk.

since i love hearing people’s stories, what first got you into space?

$Numerous galaxies dot the scene and appear to cluster around the image center. The view includes large elliptical galaxies along with spiral and lenticular galaxies. Faint arcs of distant galaxies gravitationally lensed by the cluster appear in the upper-right quadrant of the image. A couple of foreground stars are also visible and easily distinguished by their diffraction spikes.$

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 2w ago

there’s something so beautiful about the fact that this photo was taken by a human

The full Earth illuminated and captured during the Artemis II mission.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW PICTURE OF THE EARTH AND MOON FROM OVER 300,000 MILES AWAY!!

Against black space, Earth appears at left as a thin white-green crescent lit along its right edge. The Moon, slightly smaller and dimmer, sits at upper right as a matching tan crescent lit on the same side. Only a sliver of each world catches sunlight; the rest of both disks is lost in darkness.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 2w ago

do you ever look at a picture of earth and go “wow, that’s us”

Earth mostly illuminated seen at a distance against the darkness of space.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 2w ago

the darkest nights make the brightest stars

A bright night sky filled with stars. A person’s silhouette can be seen in the right corner.

PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 2w ago

“What a beautiful universe, hon" says a telescope as gazes upon an aurora borealis. “It really is”, responds the telescope's partner, who it turns out is not a telescope, but a microscope. Hands full of algae, she wades waist deep in a disgusting swamp, amazed by the heavenly microscopic life all around them.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 2w ago

HAPPY MOON LANDING DAY!!!

Photo of Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the Moon taken by Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 3w ago

the vintage nasa era

An astronaut wearing a white Apollo-era spacesuit floats outside a spacecraft during a spacewalk. Curved white handrails frame the image while the astronaut reaches forward with one gloved hand. The reflective gold visor mirrors Earth, with sunlight creating a bright starburst on the helmet. The background is the blackness of space, and part of an American flag appears blurred in the lower left foreground.

View from inside an Apollo spacecraft looking out a square window at Earth. The blue curve of the planet stretches across the lower edge of the window while countless small stars dot the dark sky beyond. The spacecraft interior, including control levers and window frame hardware, surrounds the scene in soft light.

Photograph taken from lunar orbit showing the Moon’s gray, heavily cratered surface filling the lower half of the frame. Above the lunar horizon, Earth appears partially illuminated as it rises against the deep blackness of space. The image is framed by the edges of the spacecraft window, emphasizing the view from inside the command module.

The Apollo Command and Service Module floats alone in the darkness of space, photographed from another spacecraft through a window. The silver spacecraft is illuminated by sunlight, revealing its conical command module and cylindrical service module, while the surrounding space remains completely black. The interior edges of the window create a natural frame around the spacecraft.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 3w ago

this is such a cool and trippy composite image of multiple pictures of crescent mars taken by psyche during its flyby

A composite image of a series of images of the crescent Mars against the darkness of space. The crescents are nested within each other, showing the planet growing larger in the view over time. In the largest, closest views, clouds can be seen above the planet's surface.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 3w ago

double crater on mars that looks like a butt

If a meteorite breaks in two shortly before hitting the ground, the typical bowl shape of a single impact crater becomes doubled. The two circular blast regions intersect, creating a straight wall separating the two craters. At the same time, "wings" of ejected debris shoot out to the side. The image covers an area 13 kilometers (8 miles) wide.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 3w ago

just realized that one day hubble’s gonna be powered off and decommissioned someday and we won’t get anymore beautiful images 😭

The body of the Hubble Space Telescope is seen on the right side of the image, with a solar array on its left. The observatory is imaged with Earth below it.

Three massive pillars of gas and dust extend upward through the image, in descending order of height from left to right. They are mostly opaque and dark brown, against a background of blue, green, and gold dust and gas. A few scattered pinkish stars are visible throughout.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 3w ago

this picture is INSANE. it was taken from the apollo 13 lunar module, and you can see the damaged service module in the background after it was jettisoned following the explosion of an oxygen tank!!

This view of the severely damaged Apollo 13 service module was photographed from the lunar module after it was jettisoned. The command module, still docked with the Lunar Module, is in the foreground. An entire panel on the service module was blown away by the apparent explosion of oxygen tank number two located in Sector 4.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 3w ago

he asked for some space so i sent him this

Blue and orange stars glitter across the image, interwoven with dark clouds of brown dust and bright, glowing regions of blue.

A dense field of tiny, closely packed points of light fills the image. Most of the background is bright yellow and gold. A broad, irregular dark band runs diagonally across the centre, forming connected black and dark-brown patches. Brighter clusters of pale yellow and white points appear above and below this dark band, with a few slightly bluish points scattered throughout.

$FS Tau, a star-forming nebula. Clouds of transparent blue and purple gas and dust stretch from the center to the right. Several yellow and white protostars, some showing Webb’s eight-pronged diffraction pattern, are dispersed throughout the clouds. Orange wisps and filaments of gas extend from one of the protostars at the center toward the top left and bottom right corners. There are numerous, distant yellow and white galaxies strewn about the black background of space.$ A galaxy fills most of the image, with its bright center at the lower left. Glowing pink regions of starbirth appear throughout, along with dark lanes of brown dust. In the top right corner, a bright white point of light is a supernova.

A galaxy fills most of the image, with its bright center at the lower left. Glowing pink regions of starbirth appear throughout, along with dark lanes of brown dust. In the top right corner, a bright white point of light is a supernova.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 3w ago

not enough people talk about how lucky we are to be alive to witness a sunset on ANOTHER PLANET

A blue Martian sunset with mountains in the distance and foreground.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 3w ago

4 years ago today, the james webb space telescope released its first images 🌌

$The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.$ $The background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white. Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them. A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center.$ $A group of five galaxies that appear close to each other in the sky: two in the middle, one toward the top, one to the upper left, and one toward the bottom. Four of the five appear to be touching. One is somewhat separated. In the image, the galaxies are large relative to the hundreds of much smaller (more distant) galaxies in the background. All five galaxies have bright white cores. Each has a slightly different size, shape, structure, and coloring. Scattered across the image, in front of the galaxies are number of foreground stars with diffraction spikes: bright white points, each with eight bright lines radiating out from the center.$ $A planetary nebula, seen by the Webb telescope’s NIRCam instrument, against the blackness of space, with points of starlight behind it. The nebula itself is shaped like an irregular oval, with lacy, reddish orange plumes of gas and dust. Further inside the circle, the gas and dust glows bright blue. A glowing white ring separates the red and blue gases. In the center of the rings are two stars, one glowing much brighter than the other, with diffraction spikes radiating out from it.$

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 4w ago

the voyager probes are two of humanity’s greatest achievements

Artist rendition of Voyager probe in space.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW JWST IMAGE OF THE GALAXY CENTAURUS A IN HONOR OF 4 YEARS OF SCIENCE!!

$A horizontal image of the galaxy Centaurus A stretches across a black background filled with thousands of tiny purple, pink, and white points of light. The galaxy is brightest at its center, where a brilliant white and pale pink glow radiates outward. Eight diffraction spikes extend from the central glow. Delicate loops and wispy ribbons of pink and lavender arc above and below the center of the image in the shape of an ‘S’. A band of gray and white dust in the shape of a parallelogram cuts across the middle of the galaxy. Mottled patches and bright knots are scattered throughout the dusty band. The galaxy’s outer edges fade into soft, cloud-like plumes with feathery textures that stretch toward the left and right sides of the image. Against the surrounding darkness, a few bright foreground stars shine with Webb’s distinctive diffraction spikes, while countless fainter stars create a speckled backdrop.$

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · last mo.

omg, hubble’s new image is so pretty

Blue and white stars are sprinkled throughout a landscape of red clouds of gas and dark, swirling lanes of dust. Many additional stars are visible in the dark background of space.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · last mo.

fs tau - hubble vs webb:

$A bright point of light shines near center-right with diffraction spikes, surrounded by glowing clouds against black space. A blue jet of material extends roughly throughout the center of the image, partially obscured by the clouds.$ $FS Tau, a star-forming nebula. Clouds of transparent blue and purple gas and dust stretch from the center to the right. Several yellow and white protostars, some showing Webb’s eight-pronged diffraction pattern, are dispersed throughout the clouds. Orange wisps and filaments of gas extend from one of the protostars at the center toward the top left and bottom right corners. There are numerous, distant yellow and white galaxies strewn about the black background of space.$

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · last mo.

car headlights at night when you have astigmatism