Congratulations to our Undergraduate and Graduate Research Showcase winners and thank you to everyone who participated this year 😊😊
Black In Astro
@blackinastro.bsky.social
Celebrating and amplifying the Black experience in space-related fields. EST. 2020 ✉️ blackinastro@gmail.com Website: blackinastro.com https://www.blackinastro.com/black-space-week-2026
We have our ranking of the winners! Congrats to all of you! 🥇Malik 🥈Sarai 🥉Immagin’Aria
Black In Astro@blackinastro.bsky.social · 4mo agoTime to vote on our art competition submissions! 1 like = 1 vote. The entry with the most votes wins! 🧵👇
Thanks for rocking with us for #BlackSpaceWeek 2026! Same time next year! ✊🏽🫶🏽
🔭 Black in Astro is partnering with AAS Publishing again this year for Black Space Week to feature astronomical papers from four Black scholars in the field through the AAS Journal Authors YouTube Series. #BSW2026 #TheGoodStuff #ExploreAstronomy @blackinastro.bsky.social @publishing.aas.org
Time to vote on our art competition submissions! 1 like = 1 vote. The entry with the most votes wins! 🧵👇
Happy Juneteenth to all those who celebrate! Love, the Black In Astro team ✨✊🏽
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It’s Juneteenth and a Friday?!Remember to do the bare minimum and find something that brings you joy today! ✊🏽✨
The deadline to submit is in just a few hours!!
Black In Astro@blackinastro.bsky.social · 4mo agoOur annual astro art competition is now open! Submit your art to win beautiful prizes from our generous sponsors! We can’t wait to see your art submissions🎨🖌️ The deadline for this competition is June 18th, best of luck! The submission form can be found on our website linked in our bio! #BSW2026
Make sure to get submissions in and spread the word! Submissions can be print or visual media! Astrophotography, space poems, musical pieces related to space, heck you can do a nice picture of the moon hehe all can count #BSW2026.
Black In Astro@blackinastro.bsky.social · 4mo agoOur annual astro art competition is now open! Submit your art to win beautiful prizes from our generous sponsors! We can’t wait to see your art submissions🎨🖌️ The deadline for this competition is June 18th, best of luck! The submission form can be found on our website linked in our bio! #BSW2026
Reminder that our art competition is open and tomorrow is the last day for submissions!! Send us all your beautiful artwork asappppp 💌💌
Black In Astro@blackinastro.bsky.social · 4mo agoOur annual astro art competition is now open! Submit your art to win beautiful prizes from our generous sponsors! We can’t wait to see your art submissions🎨🖌️ The deadline for this competition is June 18th, best of luck! The submission form can be found on our website linked in our bio! #BSW2026
It’s grad season! Tag a new grad in a space-related field! #BlackSpaceWeek
Today is all about all about #CelestialCompositions! Tell us about an interesting space research paper or researcher you’ve found recently! #BlackSpaceWeek
Today’s #BSW2026 theme is #RaiseYourVoice! Here are some organizations we’ve chosen to highlight today and uplift their voices 🧵
Black Space Week 2026 Mikayla Wilson (UC Santa Cruz) discusses JWST observations of WISE 0855, a nearby free-floating planetary-mass object & promising target in the search for exomoons. While no exomoon was detected, the study shows the potential of future searches. youtu.be/oe7UkyBKN0A #BSW2026 🔭
AAS Journal Author Series: Mikayla Wilson on 2025AJ....170..357W
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🔭 Black in Astro is partnering with AAS Publishing again this year for Black Space Week to feature astronomical papers from four Black scholars in the field through the AAS Journal Authors YouTube Series. #BSW2026 #TheGoodStuff #ExploreAstronomy @blackinastro.bsky.social @publishing.aas.org
🔭 Black in Astro is partnering with AAS Publishing again this year for Black Space Week to feature astronomical papers from four Black scholars in the field through the AAS Journal Authors YouTube Series. #BSW2026 @blackinastro.bsky.social
Happy Black Space Week from Tokyo! 🇯🇵. My name is Caprice, I am the current VP for @blackinastro.bsky.social and I am a NASA Sagan Fellow at UCSC! I work on brown dwarf research, like to do artsy things, trying to learn how to play my banjo 🪕, and love frogs 🐸. #BSW2026 #BlackSpaceWeek
It’s #BlackSpaceWeek 2026! We’re starting off with our annual roll call. If you’re a Black person who does Space-related things, introduce yourself and tell us what cool things you do using the hashtags #BSW2026, #BlackSpaceWeek2026!
Deadline extended to this Friday June 12 for undergraduate and graduate showcases! Register ASAPPPPP
Black In Astro@blackinastro.bsky.social · 4mo agoOur research showcases are back on June 17th! Sign up for a chance to win cash prizes for presenting your work! If you’re an undergrad sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... for grad students: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... If you want to watch the showcases, the links are on our website!
news.ucsc.edu/2026/06/blac... The press release is here! @blackinastro.bsky.social #BlackInAstro
Celebrating a shared cosmos and advancing Black equity in space science
Black in Astro, co-led by an astronomy postdoc at UC Santa Cruz, welcomes all to join the grassroots organization’s virtual conference to find inspiration and connection in a vibrant global community
news.ucsc.edu
Our annual astro art competition is now open! Submit your art to win beautiful prizes from our generous sponsors! We can’t wait to see your art submissions🎨🖌️ The deadline for this competition is June 18th, best of luck! The submission form can be found on our website linked in our bio! #BSW2026
Black Space Week #BSW2026 is only 11 days away!! This year, our theme is “Voices of a Shared Cosmos.” If the universe is a symphony, we are the conductors, the composers, and the audience all at once. Join us from June 14-20 to celebrate the cosmos 🌌✨
I'm honored to donate another custom piece to the winner this year! So much beautiful art 🌌
Bumping this!! The deadline to present your work as a graduate/undergraduate student and get paid for it is coming up in 5 days! Don’t miss the opportunity to sign up! #BSW2026
Black In Astro@blackinastro.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur Undergraduate and Graduate Research Showcase is back! Cash prizes to be won: 1st place - $1000.00 2nd place - $750.00 3rd place - $500.00 Register to present your research using the links in the thread below! #BlackSpaceWeek2026 #BlackInAstro
A little under 3 weeks left for #BlackSpaceWeek2026!! We have so many exciting events lined up for you all, we can’t wait to see you there 🥰🥰 As always registration link is in the bio!
