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We are an ad hoc group that has formed on an emergency basis to save NASA from devastating cuts which wouldn't just shrink NASA, but would truly alter it. We are members of the public acting with our personal voice, not representing NASA or our employers.
A friend of mine recently said: “People will never know the level of trauma we have from being a fed at this moment in history.” 😢 Check in with your friends and colleagues who are federal workers. Let them know you appreciate them and the work they do. 🫶 Good night 🌙
NGC 4236 captured from my dark site in southern France on three nights in April 🇫🇷😊🔭 This was shot on the EdgeHD 8 with Hyperstar at f/2 for a total integration time of 11.5 hours in RGB+Ha using a QHY183C cam. The Ha data was applied to enhance the star forming regions. #Astrophotography
This is two hours of the Owl Nebula that I took a couple of weeks ago, thinking I would have time to finish it. #astronomy #astrophotography
Also, apologies to all my followers for the radio silence. I was undergoing radical retraining.
IRAS 18090+0130 Image date: 24 April 2008, 15:00 This system consists of two interacting spiral galaxies. The galaxy to the left displays a dim plume of luminosity that extends to the right in the direction of the second spiral. Both galaxies are partly obscured by dust lanes. The galaxy at cen...
In a historic first, the James Webb Space Telescope has performed a direct mass measurement of a black hole in the early Universe. Located 13 billion light-years away, this black hole weighs in at a massive 50 million times the mass of the Sun. #JWST #SpaceNews #Astronomy 1/4
![Image description: Image showing hundreds of bright objects of different size, colour, and shape on the black background of space. Colours range from white to deep red. Shapes include elliptical, spiral, dot-like, dash-like, and arcuate.Three objects in the central part of the image are called out with small white boxes that contain images of the three objects. From top to bottom these are labeled QSO1A, QSO1B, and QSO1C. At the centre of each box is a tiny, circular red dot. QSO1A (top) is notably larger, brighter, and clearer than the other two. QSO1B, in the middle, is the smallest and fuzziest, and is somewhat washed out by the light of a larger white object next to it.]
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NASA, ESA, CSA, L. Furtak (Ben-Gurion University), R. Maiolino (Cambridge), F. D'Eugenio (Cambridge), I. Juodžbalis (Cambridge), H. Übler (MPE), C. Marconcini (University of Florence). Image processing: A. Pagan](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ipz7wp4enanb2fscqz375xps/bafkreih6oympgpvcn33af6qhofbghicmeuopyukdv4wr5z6wcih3jixtda)
Sen. Mark Kelly: "If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they're going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can't think of anything that's more un-American."
"I like space. You know, I started Space Force" -- Trump has the Artemis II crew in the Oval Office but of course he can't stop praising himself
Russ Vought realized 1 day that he had to live on a planet with billions of other people & it broke his brain. So he wrote a book about how to structure a world to maximize only his happiness. He doesn’t care about the lives he’s ruined. But the catch is that people like him are never truly happy.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3mo agoMore details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.
Look at what the Hubble, Chandra and Webb telescopes each "saw" of the Sombrero Galaxy (about 800B stars) 🌍DS
HWO is meant for launch in the 2040s, 15 to 20 years from now, and is a single telescope. Design not chosen yet. "Launch part of it in 4 years, no budget change" is.. wut? I'm not following what's even suggested here.
Jeff Foust@jfoust.bsky.social · 3mo agoIsaacman says he is challenging the Habitable Worlds team to see how it can be done in phases: what can we launch in 2030 and 2035 to progressively get us to full capability.
House appropriations NASA budget hearing with climate denier billionaire Administrator Jared Isaacman starts in one hour. Isaacman hopes to kill NASA science by 50% and eliminate STEM engagement, in violation of the @aaas.org decadal surveys.
Budget Hearing - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Subcommittee hearing. Witness: Jared Isaacman, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration The Administration requested $18.829 billion for NAS...
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NASA recently gave us a first look, and status update on the fully assembled NASA Grace Roman Space Telescope this week, and a preview of the exciting mission ahead. Here’s our post on NASA’s next space telescope for @skyandtelescope.bsky.social - skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Is Ready to Fly
NASA has announced that the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is under budget and ahead of schedule, set for a September launch.
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You can live track the Voyager missions at the NASA link below:
Where Are Voyager 1 and 2 Now? - NASA Science
Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have reached "interstellar space" and each continue their unique journey deeper into the cosmos.
science.nasa.gov
Thank you @senmarkkelly and others for standing up for NASA! We hope that Congress rejects the PBR, as they did last year, and NASA doesn’t suffer massive cuts and instead receives a raise in budget for further research and exploration. #nasaneedshelp
Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865). The Apollo program - 1961-1972
a picture of a rocket being launched with a caption that says pov : ignition sequence start
Alt: a picture of a rocket being launched with a caption that says pov : ignition sequence start
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DevinCow@devincow.bsky.social · 4mo agoQuote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865). Obama's presidency. (2009-2017).
Two Weeks after NASA's SLS rocket took off with the Artemis II Crew towards the moon, the Crawler Transporter has rolled back under the Mobile Launch 1 Tower ahead of rollback towards the Vehicle Assembly Building ahead of stacking of the SLS rocket for Artemis III. nsf.live/spacecoast
The famously terse entry for “Earth” in the Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy was wrong in one important way. There’s nothing “unremarkable” about our home.
Thank you @planetarysociety.bsky.social and @billnyetho.bsky.social
US News Now - World’s leading Liberal Voice@democracyblue.bsky.social · 4mo agoTrump’s proposed cuts to NASA are an insult to astronauts like the Artemis crew It’s an odd choice from an administration that has pledged to put America first, to be sure. www.ms.now/opinion/arte...
45 years ago today the first space shuttle, Columbia, launched with Astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen on board. It was the only time that the first flight of a spacecraft was with astronauts on board. youtu.be/Pt6Bt1pZ4Is?...
First Shuttle launch Columbia 1981
YouTube video by Bob Parker
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I’ve been trying to figure out why I’ve been obsessed with the Artemis II mission — more obsessed than I usually am with NASA stuff. This explains it! (IG: morganevelyncook)
Look at the women at NASA. They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points. And they are doing it all with joy.👇
As excited as we are (and should be) about Artemis II and returning astronauts to deep space, we should not lose sight of how much NASA has accomplished in the last 53 years. Many probes, Hubble, the JWST, COBE, and so on... #NASA #SpaceScience
Often we speak to the public, but today - we're talking to you, ranger friends. Another week, another (our third!) buy-out attempt, or "deferred resignation"/fork in the road email.
