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at age 10 i fell in love with space. and finally, at age 24, i have my first telescope.
Jasmine 🌌🔭
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Jasmine 🌌🔭
@astro_jaz
🪐 utsa/swri physics phd student | ❄️ europa clipper grad affiliate | 🚀 nasa solar system ambassador | space news • photos • facts ↓ links
- since its release 10 years ago in october 2014, only an hour and 16 minutes have passed on miller’s planet in interstellar
- Tomorrow, an incredibly rare, once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event is happening! Jupiter will be its closest to Earth since 1963! Along with opposition, it’ll be SO bright, you’ll be able to see its bands and some moons just with binoculars! This won’t happen again until 2129!
- Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo in 1969, is the only human, dead or alive, that isn't in the frame of this picture.
- the last time that every human was on earth was october 31, 2000. ever since then, we’ve always had at least one person in space. so if you were born after that date, you’ve never been on earth with everyone at once.
- jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️⚧️
- friendly reminder that THIS is what the aurora looks like from space
- HAPPY SECOND MOON DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATEEarth is set to temporarily obtain another moon on September 29th. The asteroid known as a ‘mini-moon’ is expected to make a single orbit journey around Earth, ending on November 25th.
- OH MY GOD!!! EARLY ANALYSIS OF THE SAMPLE FROM ASTEROID BENNU REVEALED ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS FOR LIFE AND ITS BELIEVED IT CAME FROM AN ANCIENT OCEAN WORLD!!! THIS IS SO AMAZING!!
- and it’s not even close
In your opinion, what is the single greatest photograph in history? - Tomorrow, NASA is making history by intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to deflect it, testing a method of planetary defense (should an asteroid pose a major threat to Earth). DART will crash into Dimorphos, (moonlet of Didymos), which poses no harm to us.
