Hannah Earnshaw
@hpearnshaw.bsky.social
Astronomer at Caltech | NuSTAR Project Scientist | UVEX science team British, Queer, Christian, bird-parent. Aspiring Martian. Opinions my own. they/them
"I've got a great campaign written, I just can't get a group together" is the peak D&D experience.
IGN@ign.com · 2w agoDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves co-director Jonathan Goldstein says the script for a sequel already exists, but he's not expecting it to see the light of day any time soon. https://bit.ly/4bIsrNA #SDCC
An underappreciated part of any mission is commitment to the bit
Dr. Jessie Christiansen@aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 2w agoGuys, I didn't even ask them to do this, but the engineers have named SHERA's astrometry pipeline ADORA (Astrometric Differential Optics and Retrieval Algorithm), and I just CAN'T with how amazing that is and how much I love it. (Adora is her name when she's not She-Ra.) #PIDaily
What's up, earthquake Bluesky? Just had a wobble here in Pasadena!
DOGE officially ended over the weekend. One of its crowning achievements was cutting $15M from the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1B to combat the screwworm outbreak. "Efficiency."
Go go Link! This is an extremely exciting effort, and it would be fantastic to get an extended lifetime for Swift, a hugely valuable member of the X-ray fleet.
Corey S. Powell@coreyspowell.bsky.social · last mo.NASA & Katalyst Space are attempting to rescue the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a powerful gamma-ray telescope that's on a death-spiral toward Earth. A booster spacecraft, called Link, is now on its way. It will attempt to grab Swift & lift it to safety. 🧪🔭 spacenews.com/pegasus-laun...
Special Session celebrating 14 years of the NuSTAR mission is due to begin in <10 mins at #AAS248 - see you there! 🔭
Super normal things happening in my neighborhood
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 2mo agoMountain lion found lounging in Pasadena captured by wildlife officials
Spent last week on Mars (in Utah) helping out with the University Rover Challenge, which continues to be one of the coolest things I am involved in.
the observatory at last defeats its ancient enemy
House & Field Negro Quarterly@morethanmud.bsky.social · 2mo agothe hungry observatory
Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.
Lana Sinapayen@sinalana.eurosky.social · 3mo agoIf you use LLMs to do your data analysis, or if you listen to people who do, you should read this kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...
Earth eclipses the Sun as seen by Artemis II on Orion. Satellites showing off as usual...
I absolutely hate this framing. The fact that the US press has refused to so much as glance in the direction of progressive Christians over the last thirty or so years doesn't mean anyone was sleeping, it means we have an incredibly lazy press.
Pope Leo has stirred awake a progressive Christianity. It can rise again | Bill McKibben
With his stand against Trump, the pope has shown the far right doesn’t have a monopoly on Christianity. If people of good faith push hard, the future could be redefined
theguardian.com
Ooohhhh, new #supernova alert! ⭐💥 Get your telescopes out and pointed towards this edge-on galaxy! EvenSeeStar S50 is capable of imaging it (second pic) SN SN 2026kid in NGC 5907 www.wis-tns.org/object/2026kid 🔭 #Astrophotography 📸 R. Sears / Ballico
this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has
Hourly Cosmos@hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 3mo agoNGC 4826 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iEerHS
And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion
Jonathan Edward Durham@thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhat’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)
This is Pachycephalosaurus erasure
David H. Montgomery@dhmontgomery.com · 4mo agoA shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur. And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops). Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
Takaichi’s Castle@discographette.online · 4mo agocongratulations to the astronauts who get credit for a moon mission using rocket development work by trans women who had to quit their job and flee the state of florida and can’t celebrate this win with their coworkers
Splashdown!! I'm so relieved and happy I could cry. The Artemis II coverage has been such a wonderful source of joy and delight over what's personally been an incredibly difficult ten days for me. I'm so very grateful for it.
Reid: We have a great view of the moon out of window 2. Looks a little smaller than yesterday. Jackie: Guess we’ll have to go back.
Artemis II is rapidly closing towards your location (Earth).
*heavy sigh in high-energy/UV astrophysics* Time to bother my reps again.
Casey Dreier@caseydreier.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe FY 2027 NASA budget request hides its science cuts by omitting mission names instead of explicitly zeroing them out. We did the work and found 54 missions cancelled in this proposal. This is another extinction-level event for NASA science. Full list: planetary.org/save-nasa-science
#Artemis II - We have the first image from yesterdays Lunar flyby captured by the crew on Orion EARTHSET. April 6, 2026. Humanity, from the other side. First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon. 🚀🌕🌍
Spiritually I am the pot of Nutella flying across the Artemis II Orion cabin.
Delightfully surprised by the appearance of some compact object friends in here, including the Crab pulsar, HLX-1 (!) and Sgr A*. Really cool to see different kinds of objects sat beside things of a similar size scale that you might not have expected. Boggled at just how big hypergiants can get!!
Dr James O'Donoghue 🪐@interplanetary.bsky.social · 4mo agoMy take on a Universe Size Comparison. On and off, this took several months to make! Check it out of you have 10 minutes and be sure to put your 🎧 on for the full experience youtu.be/2D9vHQOaauM (New and improved, reupload!)
I downloaded the high-res version of this amazing picture from the Artemis crew and did a little edit to make it look more like what the astronauts might actually see! Enjoy the picture and then check out the thread below explaining what you’re looking at… 🧪 #artemis #artemisii #space #moon
More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕
