Dr. Jenifer Millard 🇪🇺🏴🇺🇦
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Extragalactic astronomer | Co-presenter @AwesomeAstroPod | Public speaker (✉️ requests) | Managing Editor @FifthStarLabs Sky Guide 🌌 | Infrequently BBC 📺 & 📻
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You guys, I shot this last night on an iPhone 14 Pro 🤯 the level of dust detail is insane! And this is only a quick edit using the in built tools of the phone! Who said you need a DSLR to capture the Milky Way?!? Will be trying for more tonight!
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Ok, I have to do a small thread about all the galaxies in that
#JWST
image - because if you turn up the brightness ... omg, they just POP out from everywhere. And as someone who's galaxies were mere blobs hidden in a sea of noise ... THIS IS AMAZING
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Wednesday marks 50 years since the launch of Pioneer 10 - undoubtedly, one of the most important interplanetary space missions ever. This craft paved the way for all that have come since - Voyagers, Cassini, New Horizons, Juno...
Who wants a mega thread on Weds?!
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Unbelievable. Phenomenal.
Can’t believe I saw the aurora rippling and moving with the naked eye from outside my front door, even with a street lamp 🤯 and what a light show by moving to a dark area a few streets down!
All this. On an iPhone 15. Unedited. Handheld and tripod.
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GET OUTSIDE AND LOOK NORTH
RIGHT
NOW
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You see, this is what happens when Jupiter is in Gatorade 😂😜
Dear
@BBCNews
you may want to check
@DrJeniMillard
qualifications?
#astronomer
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
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How about instead of peddling this nonsense, invite some female ASTRONOMERS onto your show to tell everyone about the amazing work they are doing, and how they are breaking stereotypes and smashing down doors
@BBCWomensHour
Mercury retrograde- is it a time to repair, renew and revamp your life. We hear from
@yasminboland
and Wendy Stacey, Chair of the Astrological Association of Great Britain
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Isn't this just astrophotography goals?!
Photographer captures the International Space Station passing in front of the
#moon
with precision timing. It only takes about 0.5 seconds for the entire pass.
Credit
@AJamesMcCarthy
#SkyGuide
#Astronomy
@Space_Station
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Working outside academia is inevitable for most science PhDs. Yet in my experience, it's a path which isn't openly discussed during our studies, & brings a huge amount of shame and guilt - we're surrounded by those who stay.
Why isn't leaving ac discussed more?
@AcademicChatter
In the UK, of those who are awarded science PhDs:
30% obtain postdoctoral positions
4% find permanent academic research posts
Less than 0.5% reach the level of professor.
(Royal Society, 2010)
#AcademicTwitter
any humanities statistics?
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The images of the black hole give us an indication of the temperature of the material in the accretion disk around it ... some 6 BILLION KELVIN!
Or, 6 BILLION DEGREES CELSIUS, if you prefer. At this scale, the difference between the units is negligible...
From the ApJ Letters.
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Why you should take a look at
#Mars
this week - a thread.
Tonight, a little after midnight BST, Mars is at opposition. This means, if you could, you could draw a line between the Sun, Earth and Mars. They are all perfectly lined up. (1/n)
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Tonight there may be a very special astronomical event, poised for those in North and Central America, but possibly visible elsewhere.
We could have a meteor shower storm of the Tau Herculids, with 1400 meteors an hour!
Or nothing at all.
Or something in between...
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Today’s the day folks, I’m off to Chile! I’m so excited now 😍 I’m actually getting to meet my bosses over at
@FifthStarLabs
in person for the first time! We’re heading to some beautiful dark southern skies, and hopping over to Bolivia too. I’ll be posting all about it!
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The closer you look, the more these small blobs appear - and these are the really exciting ones, the oldest. But the very first stars and galaxies, they'll need more than 35 mins of staring to find. Imagine how full this will be with 10 days of staring into deep-space 🤯
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In just two days time, most of Europe and parts of western Asia and central-northern Africa will bear witness to a rare celestial event - the Moon will pass in front of the ice giant planet Uranus. New in
@FifthStarLabs
, observing tips and the science of occultations!
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OK, here's the answer to the question: did NASA just ruin the zodiac and invent a constellation?
Tldr: no, Ophiuchus has always been there, it was just ignored when the signs were drawn up 3000 years ago. And due to precession, it's all out by about one sign anyway...
1/n
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I'm delighted to say that I have SUBMITTED MY PHD THESIS 🎉
1562 days
44751 words
249 pages total (185 from Introduction to Conclusion)
7 Chapters
2 first-author papers, 2 other papers
Tens of thousands of galaxies
Just the viva and corrections to survive now 🤞❤️🌌
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Officially Dr Who
Actual Dr of Space and Time
Allonsy!
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First up is this spiral boy near the bottom of the image. Look at that defined arm, with a definite flocculent disk around it. Hints of a second too! Is that a colliding neighbour to its right? And a foreground edge-on spiral to the left?
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Astonishing -
#JWST
is tightly focused and is performing as good, if not better, than originally hoped for!
The best bit? Nearly all those spots behind the focusing star are distant galaxies. Not stars. GALAXIES.
I can't WAIT for the science to get going 😍
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Goodbye amateur astronomy.
Goodbye amateur astrophotography.
Goodbye ground-based professional astronomy.
Goodbye transient astronomy.
Goodbye radio astronomy.
Goodbye astronomy? Goodbye space exploration?
Is this the start of the era of looking down, not up?
Very cool (and scary) video from
@AGItweets
which shows how crowded low Earth orbit will become over the next 10 years if all proposed
#satellites
launch. And btw this is in addition to the other 20,000 other
#space
objects which are already being tracked. Space needs rules!
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Well, there’s only one dress to wear to an interactive exhibit about Van Gogh 😎
@BlackMilkTweets
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Hey everyone! I'm Jeni and I'm proud to be a Woman in Science this
#WomeninScienceDay
!
I'm an extragalactic astronomer by trade, but now work primarily in science communication. I use many of my sciencey skills in my day job at
@FifthStarLabs
, and I'm proud to be a BBC Expert 🧵
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Galaxy group?
Galaxy cluster?
This looks VERY interesting. That bright galaxy to the middle-right is looking particularly DUSTY too - look at the dark shadows across the disk! At this wavelength, we're likely seeing very redshifted stellar light rather than dust emission.
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However, beyond the
#Perseids
, I could not believe how many satellites/debris pieces I saw. An unbelievable amount. They used to be a rare occasion. Now they are beginning to outnumber natural astronomical events 😔
The time is coming when most stars will be artificial.
Managed to catch a few
#Perseids
tonight, so they are definitely visible, even if the count is reduced due to the full Moon - worth a look on the 12th/13th, for sure 😊
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Venus and Jupiter in the evening sky, naked eye and through binoculars. You can even see the four Galilean Moons!
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Now, THERE's a beautiful face-on spiral if I ever did see one. Kind of like the mirror image of M74
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The two spirals at the bottom could be interacting, or along the same line-of-sight. But LOOK at those DEFINED SPIRAL ARMS 😍 it's important to not forget the small blobs too. Every blip here is a very distant galaxy, much older than those foreground ones.
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Holy moly. I'm almost afraid to write this tweet in case I curse myself...
Gunna be on
@BBCBreakfast
tomorrow morning at the end of the show talking James Webb Space Telescope 🤯 tune in to hear more about this revolutionary mission 🎉
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Join me on
@BBCNews
at 21:45 for hot tips about tonight’s potentially dazzling auroral display!
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Well, if you’re giving a talk about the Moon to Mid Kent Astro Society, what else could you possibly wear?!
@BlackMilkTweets
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Arecibo gave us so much, including:
- Determining that Mercury takes 59 days to rotate, not 88
- The first ever binary pulsar, and subsequently first indirect evidence of gravitational waves
- The first ever exoplanet in 1992
- The first ever repeating FRB
Thank you Arecibo ❤️😭
Science had a great lost, it’s a very sad day for the community & for Puerto Rico. The world’s very first single dish observatory, the
#AreciboObservatory
has collapsed this morning. Seeing 1 of our reporters break down live while getting the news just 😭😭
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I'm Dr Jen... And this, is the BBC 😍🤯
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I cannot believe this but… I’ve officially seen aurora FROM WALES 😍🤯 what a fantastic evening of observing at
@TheAstroCamp
. Meteors, earthshine, a conjunction, clusters, nebulae, galaxies. Astonishing. Got to be one of the best nights ever. More tomorrow, sleep now!
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Calling all astrophotographers 🌌
Have you captured any noctilucent clouds in 2024? I would love to include them in my NLCs article for
@FifthStarLabs
Sky Guide app (with full accreditation, of course!)
Please share for visibility 😍 thanks lovelies!
#NOCTILUCENT
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OK OK THIS IS NOT A DRILL
SOUTH WALES A FEW MINS AGO 😍
#aurora
#northernlights
iPhone 14 Pro handheld, night mode
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HELLO GRAND DESIGN SPIRAL GALAXY AT TOP!! A beautiful cascade of cosmic wonders, billions of years old.
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I did it! It's the most nervous I've been for a talk in many years, but I did love it in the end
@TEDxCardiff
@TEDx
😍
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Yesterday we made a very special work trip to the incredible next-gen
@VRubinObs
observatory. I was stunned the entire trip 😍 its size is on another level, I just can’t wait for first light!
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Astrophotography doesn't need expensive equipment. Here's a photo of the Moon I took just moment ago, with my phone held up to the eyepiece of my William Optics telescope.
You can see many craters along the terminator and the dark seas 😍 amazing!
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DO YOU LIVE IN:
- Europe
- Iceland
- Greenland
- Western Russia
- Western Asia
- Northern Africa?
Then you might see an awesome astronomical event tomorrow morning! On Nov 9th, the Moon will pass in front of Venus - it’s happening in the daytime, but you can see it! 🫨
🧵
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It's my imagination going wild, but doesn't this top-left galaxy look like a recent merger, with disturbed gas swirling behind the main galaxy? And that bottom galaxy is intriguing too - side-on disk, or face-on spiral with strong central bar?
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After a very, very low day yesterday feeling crippling loneliness, out with the bestie for Girls Aloud 😍 train tinnies required, obviously 😂
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PASS 🤯👏🥳 with (very) minor corrections!!
I don't have much else to say now other than thank you to
@jgeach
and
@timdavisastro
for being great examiners and for some really insightful conversation!
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With
#JWST
almost at L2, this is really exciting! Looks like it may be detectable through long exposures with backyard telescopes 😍
Caught the
#jameswebbtelescope
from my backyard! Timelapse of 5-min exposures from 9-10:20 PM.
@NASAWebb
#space
#astronomy
#astrophotography
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Who's excited for the partial solar eclipse visible from the UK tomorrow morning?!
What's the betting it'll be clouded out?! 😂
Look out for a thread later where I'll tell you how to observe the event safely!
Image:
@skyatnightmag
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Here's something really awesome pointed out to me by
@CJRClarkEsquire
this morning in work ... a decade time-lapse of the Crab Nebula! You can see it expand and see the pulsar wind swirling about!
@astrofairy
should appreciate this ;) (C) Detlef Hartmann
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Holy shitballs. This is astonishing footage from the Parker Solar Probe as its closest pass to the Sun yet.
It's very closest pass will be in 2025, when it will pass a little over 4 Sun-diameters away from the surface of the Sun 🤯
NASA's Parker Solar Probe plunged deep into the Sun's corona & passed directly through streamers of solar plasma. The view out the window was...staggering.
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Who said you need fancy telescopes for astrophotography 🥰 handheld iPhone 14 Pro, auto night mode, point and shoot! So looking forward to learning more about how this camera works to really make the most of it!
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So what's new this time?
- 23 cameras, including zoom AND we can make 3D images
- We're directly searching for signs of past microbial life
- New, stronger wheels (with JPL spelled out in morse code in the hole pattern!)
- Caching
- Experiments for human survival on Mars (1/n)
We’re sending our newest robotic scientist to the Red Planet! 🚀
WHO:
@NASAPersevere
rover
WHAT:
#CountdownToMars
WHEN: July 30 at 7:50am ET
WHERE:
@NASAKennedy
HOW: Aboard
@ULAlaunch
’s
#AtlasV
rocket
Watch our mission coverage:
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What an incredible location to be team building and learning more about telescopes 😍 the vistas are unreal here 🥰
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Calling all astrophotographers and astronomers!
Have you seen the SN 2023ixf
#supernova
in
#M101
, or even photographed it? Can I use your images in an article for
@FifthStarLabs
Sky Guide app (full accreditation)? What kit did you use to spy it from your backyard? Do comment!
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So now it's official, I feel it's time to share! 🎉
I'm delighted to be revising my position at
@FifthStarLabs
Sky Guide to Managing Editor 🥳 a permanant 4-day a week role (which means I can still do my BBC shenanigans)
Expect more content & very epic new additions 😍
I know what I'm doing after my PhD - when it's all official, I'll tell you all 😍
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People of Space: I'm calling for your help.
**What do I do after my PhD?** 🤔 I'm after some advice.
I'm not sure about staying in academia. My PhD expedience has been ... mixed.
What other options are there for still working in the space industry? Please Com&RT!
#PhDchat
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ASTRONOMY ADVENT CALENDAR
In this thread, I'll post a cool space fact every day for 24 days. Everything from the Solar System, to deep space, to space exploration.
Happy Holidays 🎄🎁🎊
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It might happen again tonight! I cannot emphasise this enough - if it’s clear, about an hour after sunset, get out and look north 😍 to the naked eye, aurora often appear whitish or silvery. A few seconds exposure on your smartphone will show colour!
The Northern Lights lit up the sky across the UK last night after one of the biggest solar storms in years.
Astronomer Jennifer Millard says the display was as "intense as it can get" – but that the lights may be visible again tonight. Her advice? "Look north."
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But, could all just be collected along the line of sight and not actually related. We need some spectroscopy to figure out how distant these galaxies are.
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See you on
@ITVWales
around 6pm, where I'll be discussing the upcoming
@VirginOrbit
launch from
@SpaceCornwall
!
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This is always my favourite bit of Falcon 9 launches. Never ever ceases to amaze me.
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So many astronomical events happened at this
@TheAstroCamp
. I managed to capture earthshine through my
@Celestron
telescope, phone held to eyepiece! See how the night side of the Moon is faintly illuminated? That’s sunlight reflected off Earth hitting the Moon and bouncing back!
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How dedicated was I to seeing the
#EclipseSolar2024
? I made my knees bleed by kneeling in the grass 😂 worth it
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See them there green blobs?
Every.
Single.
One.
Is.
A.
G A L A X Y.
Some are nearby, some are billions of light years away.
The secrets to the history of the universe, buried in a few pixels on my screen.
#astronomy
#Space
#galaxies
#datascience
#python
#phdlife
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Only 14 years late and $9.5 billion over budget 😜
But this telescope will be so worth the wait. As an extragalactic astrophysicist, the possibility of seeing the light from the very first stars makes my spine tingle. And the revelations on exoplanet atmospheres... 😍
The
@NASA
/
@esa
/
@csa_asc
James Webb Space Telescope completes testing and prepares for the trip to the launch site at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
Details:
#WebbSeesFarther
#WebbFliesAriane
#JWST
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What is WRONG with people 😡😤😖
Sad news: the world-famous Robin Hood tree at Sycamore Gap in Northumberland has been cut down in a mindless act of vandalism. The location is popular with astrophotographers and stargazers; it's a shame future generations will no longer enjoy it.
#sycamoregap
#northumberland
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After my difficult Christmas, I can really feel myself finding some inner peace again 🙏 feeling positive about the upcoming year, ready to learn new things and be brave 🥳
This is your reminder that it’s ok to not be ok ❤️ and proof that it does get better ☺️
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Is there something different about Twitter today? 🤔 IDK WHAT IT COULD POSSIBLY BE!! 😉
WOOOOHOOHOO!!!
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Seeing as this is blowing up, please do check out the app I work for: Sky Guide for
@FifthStarLabs
on Apple (FREE to download)
And also my podcast
@AwesomeAstroPod
, also FREE to download wherever podcasts are found 🥰
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The Doctor will see you now 😘😜 let’s get this wedding party STARTED!! 🥳
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It's Earth 2.0!
Or is it? 🤔
Astronomers have found an almost Earth-sized planet which, at first glance, could have an average temperature right for liquid water - a lovely 42C!
BUT... that's with no atmosphere considered. And atmosphere is really important (1/4)
🪐 DISCOVERY 🔭
A Venus-sized exoplanet with an 'Earth-like temperature' has been spotted just 40 light-years away from us.
The potentially-habitable world, named Gliese 12 b, orbits its host star every 12.8 days and has an estimated surface temperature of 42°C (107°F).
(1/2)
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An excellent first day of work in the office for
@FifthStarLabs
Sky Guide app 🥰 I’m really enjoying my time here in Seattle, feeling very lucky to live the life I lead.
Remote work has its perks but it is also a joy to be back together as a team again!
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Today's the DAY!!!
THE DAY WE WENT TO THE MOON!!
The FRIGGIN' MOON guys!
Moon!
Moonmoonmoon!
Moooooooooon!
MOON!
#Apollo11
#Apollo50th
Moon.
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What a wonderful gif!
Last night Uranus reached opposition. We tracked it over 4 hours to make this video showing the movement of the planet and its four brightest moons (Titania, Oberon, Umbriel and Ariel) against the stars.
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The spiralling house prices in the UK make me think I'll never buy.
I'd rent, but I detest the idea of paying someone else's mortgage on their 5th, 10th, 20th house.
I have a bloody Astrophysics PhD, I should be able to buy myself a little house! 😡😤
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What’s most fascinating is that this galaxy seems to have its light reddened by dust AND there’s oxygen present, indicating multiple generations of stars! After just 300 million years! Whaaaaat 🤯
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Today, the road trip from Seattle to Dallas begins! 😍 I’M IN AN RV 🇺🇸
Texas, we coming for ya! 🥳
#Eclipse2024
#DrJenGoesEclipseHunting
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I’ve picked up a bunch of new followers recently so HEY FOLKS 😍 I’m so glad to have you with my on my journey through life!
What do I post about? Mostly space, bits about my life (am human, not robot), sometimes cats. Look out for my podcast
@AwesomeAstroPod
and my work …
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Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
On this day (October 4th) in 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, kicking off the Space Age.
Now there's around 6600 functioning satellites whizzing around our home planet, and over 2000 defunct ones. Crazy!
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Calling all aurora hunters! 🚨♥️
Did you capture the amazing aurora May 10-11? I'd love to showcase your work in
@FifthStarLabs
Sky Guide app. I'd love to illustrate how far and wide this dazzling show was seen through images captured using all types of equipment! (1/2)
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From tonight through to the 13th, we have the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, undoubtedly the highlight of the meteor calendar. Below is a thread with the origin of the shower, what you can expect to see, and top observing tips. (1/n)
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I could not get over the naked eye prominences. So vividly pink too! Through the binos, the view was unbelievable. Worth dragging them thousands of miles!
#Eclipse2024
WOW! 🤯 What a moment! Thin cloud couldn’t stop us. Here‘s my shot of the Sun’s corona during today’s
#TotalEclipse
in Texas. 🇺🇸 Loops and streamers galore from a highly active Sun. Show me your shots!
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@fmwales
Please keep masks in retail settings. I and many others won't feel safe shopping without them. After all their sacrifice, retail workers deserve protection. Please, keep the economy running, keep masks in shops. There aren't enough delivery slots as it is.
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Good morning lovelies! This morning, I'm working on an article about the upcoming Leonid meteor shower. This year could be special, with a possible brief outburst of up to 250 shooting stars an hour!
It's only a possibility of course, but how exciting would that be! 😍
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I am in love with my eclipse-inspired nails for my trip to the States 😍
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American State Crossing
#1
😍
Goodbye Washington, hello Oregon! Absolutely beautiful river crossing to change state, and then we were treated to a storm, and I managed to capture my first lightning on the phone! 😍
Great trip so far!
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I heart this dress so much 😍 this is a local find in the Gallery Boutique in Barry! Shop local when you can 😍
Off for the Uncle’s 75th birthday 🎂
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Time for a Christmas meal, which means Christmas earrings!
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Gained new followers recently... So let me say hello! 👋👋👋
I'm a galaxy PhD turned science communicator. I frequently post about what spacey things I'm working on, and the news/anniversaries/cool things to observe 😍. Occasionally political 😜 love cross stitch 🧵 owned by a 🐈
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Wooo, what a buzz! Absolutely loved chatting space on
@BBCBreakfast
this morning!
Absolutely blown over to see so many new followers - thanks for joining me! Check out my podcast
@AwesomeAstroPod
and
@FifthStarLabs
Sky Guide articles (both free) for more spacey goodness 🎉❤️
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Off out to a vintage fair with the folks! Feeling cute so I was taking selfies and my mother is just in the corner laughing at me 😂 remember to get out the house today and do something different!
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BUYING
A robotic LEGO Percy and Ginny?!?! Can’t get better than this! Set 42158 with 1,132 pieces releasing June 1st for $89.99!
@LEGO_Group
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Here's a quick and dirty comparison of Hubble's view (left) and JWST's view (right) of SMACS 0723. The level of detail in the new image is phenomenal - full thoughts in
@FifthStarLabs
Sky Guide app, free to download from the Apple App Store! Click to view in full ...
@NASAWebb
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What a fantastic night at
@TheAstroCamp
! Many familiar favourites: the Ring Nebula, Dumbell Nebula, M13, Witch's Broom, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter - none through my own scope, just friendly folks sharing the view.
Unbelievably, I snapped this on my phone (yep, that's Andromeda!)
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