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ICYMI: new EO requires AI to now be called SI or “super intelligence” for no other reason than Trump wants it. Will this prompt mass confusion within the science community and the general public? Will this waste tons of federal workers’ time? Both are “yes.” Read more Space.com: archive.is/nQ3eG

Tuesday Sky shot.. I hear thunder but I see Rays☀️

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 🌙

✨ NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has pierced through thick dust to resolve 16.5 million individual stars in the Cigar Galaxy (M82)! Thanks to Webb's infrared vision, astronomers now have a detailed fossil record of this galaxy's history. 🔭🌌 #NASAWebb #Space 1/4

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...

Pretty moon this morning. Wishing you a peaceful day. 💙✌️ #PNW #PDX #Moonrise #Photography #Scape

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

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

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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.

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...

You can live track the Voyager missions at the NASA link below:

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

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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

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?...

Excellent opinion piece about the loss of NASA science funding and work.

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)

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.

#ArtemisII has splashed down safely!

Coming in soon— welcome back home, crew.

The Orion capsule with the #Artemis II astronauts is now on its final trajectory for re-entry. Angle and trajectory all good. Hoping the re-entry goes smoothly!

Splashdown coming soon! www.nasa.gov

🧵1/3 ❓ What do you call it when Congress appropriates funds — and bureaucrats just… sit on the money instead of funding lifesaving HIV/AIDS programs? 🤔 Waste. Fraud. Abuse. (Also known as: immoral assholery, if we’re being honest.) Action: 5calls.org/issue/pepfar...

Planetary nebula NGC 2899 Image date: 23 April 2025, 16:00 This Hubble Space Telescope image captures the beauty of the moth-like planetary nebula NGC 2899. This object has a diagonal, bipolar, cylindrical outflow of gas. This is propelled by radiation and stellar winds from a nearly 22 000 deg...

✅ #Artemis II update: Day 9, Orion travelling at 4944 km/h, 212 895 km from Earth and 227 844 km from the Moon. Image shows yesterday's ship-to-ship call with members of Space Station Expedition 74 (pic: NASA). Track at nasa.gov/missions/art... @exploration.esa.int @fr.esa.int

Having a hard time correlating these two social media postings issued hours apart by the White House when it comes to humanity's readiness to expand outward and explore the cosmos. Just sayin' #AdAstra?

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The Artemis II mission seems good because it is. People seem excited by it because they are. It looks like a testament to the value of teamwork because it needs many people working together to succeed, and it’s succeeding. One of the best things about this is how straightforward it is. Authentic.

A glance at the White House FY2027 busget shows pay freezes for civilian federal employees. Tormenting us daily isn’t enough? We certainly hope this also applies to Vought, any DOGE bros still rattling around, and the various goons in the special appointments parade. Our response? 🖕🖕

Inside the Science Mission Operations Room at the Johnson Space Center this morning. #ArtemisII 🧪🔭

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NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.