I was really crunched for time the last 2 weeks, so I didn't get to do as much editing on my space fact videos. So this week I enjoyed getting back to "full effort"—except for the fact that it took 3 hours for the 90 second video 😭
Nora's Guide to the Galaxy
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I love space! PhD, Astrophysics 🌌✨✨🌌 come explore our galaxy with me 🔗: https://galaxy.nora-bailey.com/linktree
I love when I'm making graphics for something and realize that even though I knew the numbers going in, I completely underestimated them. Had to shift the bodies into "lollipops" to make them fit in this one!!
Written in its stars ✨ On its 4th science anniversary, Webb has turned its gaze towards Centaurus A. Thanks to its high resolution we can now study the galaxy star by star, reconstructing when different events in its history happened 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪
My husband is a gamer and he plays a wide variety of games, so I love that I never know what to expect when he tells me about them. Today it was a certainly a surprise when he said "Let me show you this city I built. First of all: it's beavers."
Halfway through 2026 😳 Some writing stats for me so far this year: 6 new short stories written 64 short story submissions 53 short story rejections (2 after being held!) 25 queries sent 16 queries rejected 5377 words written in a new novel
Happy Summer Solstice! The bittersweet day where I'm torn between being sad about shorter days to come and being happy about warmer days to come!
No matter how much nonwork work I get done on the weekends, it's never enough 😩
Watching USA-AUS in our 🇺🇸🇦🇺 household and kinda hoping for a draw tbh because I can never be properly happy over a win if my husband loses
TFW you're done with your talk by 10:10 on day 1 💅
IG is absolutely playing with me, why the hell would I be saying "nutrinos" when NEUTRINOS is an actual fucking word 🤦♀️
When AAS is in your neighborhood so you get to sleep in your own bed, stop at your usual coffeeshop, and walk to the conference center ☺️
Introducing Artemis III. Four astronauts. Three launches. Two dockings. One splashdown. In 2027, the Artemis III mission will practice docking the Orion spacecraft with two lunar landers in low Earth orbit — the capability we need to return humanity to the Moon’s surface. Original post
I am excited for the Artemis III mission and its crew, and I know they are all very capable and qualified astronauts. But it is definitely notable and disappointing to see an all-male crew. Both of these things can be true!
Last night I cried myself to sleep because no one wants my stories and today at lunch I submitted 5 stories and that's basically being a writer
A little bit more info from my recent trip to Meteor Crater! youtu.be/HGwmd984WnU
Inside Meteor Crater
YouTube video by Dr. Nora's Guide to the Galaxy
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I made myself cry writing a story on my flight today so it's either the best thing I've ever written or a complete load of maudlin bullshit (probably the latter let's be honest 😅)
In my mind: I like giving talks! My slides are awesome and I'm excited to share this 😃 In my body: Dry mouth, shaking hands, quavering voice, heart racing 🤪
At a conference and Isaacman is giving the opening plenary and he started with thanking Trump barf
It is way too early to be arguing about Oumuamua with my Lyft driver
Practiced my 15 minute talk 3 times, over 19 minutes every time. Gave it to my husband...13.5 minutes. I maybe talk too fast 😂
One green flag of many about my husband is that he watches the women's State of Origin and tells me about the highlights with the same enthusiasm as he does the men's
The IG captions hearing "Mount Ikea" instead of "Mauna Kea" is killing me
Going to hike the best-preserved meteorite impact crater in the world today! 😃
I swear Pluto brings out the most anti-science bs from people who claim to support science.
Jeff Foust@jfoust.bsky.social · 3mo agoIsaacman: very much in the camp of making Pluto a planet again. Working on some papers right now to escalate through the scientific community to revisit this. And that's it.