Jackie Barrientes

After reading Avi Loeb's "Medium" article, I can't get Creed's "With Arms Wide Open" out of my head.

The Andromeda galaxy, a spiral galaxy, spreads across the width. It is tilted nearly edge-on to our line of sight so that it appears as an extreme oval on its side. The borders of the galaxy are jagged because the image is a mosaic of smaller, square images. The outer edges of the galaxy are blue, while the inner two-thirds are yellowish with a bright, central core. Dark, dusty filamentary clouds wrap around the outer half of the galaxy’s disk. At 10 o’clock, a smaller dwarf elliptical galaxy forms a fuzzy, yellow blob. Hubble’s sharp vision distinguishes about 200 million stars within the image. The background of space is black. There are what appears to be steps toward the bottom, mainly toward the middle, which indicates where no data were taken.

The largest photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, assembled from Hubble observations, took more than 10 years of data collecting and was created from more than 600 snapshots!

➡️ And it's available for download in really large sizes: go.nasa.gov/44Uvyhc 🔭 🧪

Screenshot of an article in "Medium" with the headline "Is the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Alien Technology?" The article is written by Avi Loeb.

"[T]here are two possible implications: first that the intentions of 3I/ATLAS are entirely benign, and second that they are malign. In the first case, humanity need not do anything but await the arrival of this interstellar messenger with open arms."

I can't with this guy! 🙄

Trump asked Coca-Cola to put real sugar back in the Coke. So now it's like Mexican Coca-Cola! Who wants to tell him?

Hosted @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in Washington today!

The color coordination wasn’t planned. 😂🌹💫

A 4 x 4 grid of an Amazon Wishlist for a Spanish teacher. Items on the list include color pencils, tissues, glue sticks and whiteboards.

Please consider helping my sister-in-law, a high school Spanish teacher, get her needed classroom supplies. She's a great teacher, who cares deeply for her student, but lives in a state where teachers aren't paid well.
#ClearTheList #ClearTheLists #HelpTeachers
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Four categories of small jars of play dough or slime from Aamzon.

🚸 Play-based speech therapy utilizes a child's natural inclination to play as a foundation for developing speech and language skills.

Help my sister #ClearTheList as she prepares for a new school year as a speech pathologist in a Title 1 school: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... #ClearTheLists

Hubble Network can track your devices from orbit A Seattle space startup called Hubble Network is unveiling a system that uses satellites and low-power Bluetooth signals to monitor devices and sensors around the globe. The system, known as the Hu…

Great, now we're going to have to spend time telling people that the Hubble Telescope and Hubble Network are NOT the same thing. And "No, the observatory is NOT tracking your phone!" 🤬 🔭

YouTube video by Space Telescope Science Institute Zoom to the Cat's Paw Nebula

Zoom through space to the Cat’s Paw Nebula. This video continues to a section of the Cat’s Paw, which gradually transitions to the stunning image captured by #NASAWebb in near-infrared light. 🔭 🧪

Can’t say I’m looking forward to how this plays out if (when?) dude is in charge of astronauts and rockets and how to avoid permanently contaminating Mars and deflecting comets and stuff like that.

Fuzzy bright ball in the middle of a dark background. It appears to be moving to the left, as the ball is brighter on the left side.

The closest 3I/ATLAS will come to Earth is approximately 170 million miles on Dec. 19, 2025, though it will pose no threat to the planet. It will reach its closest approach to the Sun in October at a distance of 130 million miles—just inside the orbit of Mars. Credit: Gemini Obs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Yes, the NYC subway is SO dangerous that I made my sister's children ride it. 🙄

The worst thing I've seen on the subway is someone puking on an express train, and I had to smell it for 10 blocks. And once, I almost got kicked in the head by a "Showtime" guy, but everyone has.

1) NHL Eastern
Move NBA West to 5, NFL NFC to 6.

Looking for something to do in #Baltimore this weekend? Learn more about the James Webb Space Telescope.

BONUS EPISODE: Sec of the Army adopting plan Podcast Episode · Cascade of History · 07/09/2025 · 35m

Lee Reynolds, PAO for the U.S. Army's Center of Military History, confirms that the Army will adopt a plan to close 16 Army museums.

Reynolds responds to questions about the closure, including lack of public process, and the specific criteria that were used in selecting museums for closure.

A pair of distant galaxies that form the rough shape of an infinity symbol seen at roughly a 45-degree angle. Two overlapping, fuzzy rings with brighter blue patches are at upper right and lower left. At the center of each ring is a bright yellow blob, which is the nucleus. Where the two rings overlap on the left side, there is a mottled green patch of glowing gas midway between the two yellow nuclei. It is offset slightly to the left. Orange contours are overlaid on the galaxies. The contours are egg-shaped and centered on the green patch between the two galaxies.

NEWS: We may be witnessing the formation of a new supermassive black hole. #NASAWebb shows the Infinity Galaxy has a growing black hole between two galactic nuclei. It may have formed there through direct collapse of a gas cloud: webbtelescope.pub/4nQlWwI 🔭 🧪

YouTube video by NASA Goddard NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory Will Search for Life

Are we alone? To find out, NASA is building the Habitable Worlds Observatory. This powerful space telescope uses proven technologies from Hubble, #NASAWebb, and #NASARoman to look for signatures of planets that can support life—and maybe life itself: go.nasa.gov/44KCbT7 🔭 🧪

Logo of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) over a vibrant cosmic background with text reading "Expanding the Frontiers of Space Astronomy.

Work at @stsci.edu: The Observation Planning Branch in the Science Operations and Engineering Division at STScI is seeking an Associate Analyst for Science Operations to support the Hubble, James Webb, and theRoman space telescopes. 🔭 🧪

Apply: recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/...

Promotional image for Deep Space Dialogues featuring the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, with a cosmic background. Event speakers include Dr. Kristen McQuinn and Dr. Robyn Sanderson.

WEDNESDAY, 7 p.m. ET: #NASARoman Space Telescope is NASA’s next large strategic mission. University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Robyn Sanderson will tell us how Roman has the potential to discover what dark matter is—or isn't—by observing nearby galaxies: youtube.com/live/2NpN8ae... 🔭 🧪

A bright young star within a colorful nebula. The star is the brightest spot in the image, identifiable by its six-pronged diffraction pattern, which spreads to the edges. Dark blue clouds surround most of the image. A number of other bright spots are also in the clouds, shown in great detail as layers of colorful wisps.

N79, seen by #NASAWebb, shows a part of a star-forming complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The stars in this region form more furiously and have a different chemical composition than the those in our Milky Way galaxy.

Credit: ESA, NASA, CSA, O. Nayak, M. Meixner. 🔭 🧪

Jannik Sinner had no business being in the Final, winning his losing match against Dimitrov only because Dimitrov had to forfeit, beating Djokovic likely only because Djokovic was injured. And now he's #Wimbledon champion, beating the guy who's beat him several times before.

Thank you! I'll tell her to keep an eye out for them. 😁

Four categories of small jars of play dough or slime from Aamzon.

🚸 Play-based speech therapy utilizes a child's natural inclination to play as a foundation for developing speech and language skills.

Help my sister #ClearTheList as she prepares for a new school year as a speech pathologist in a Title 1 school: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... #ClearTheLists

Crochet had 100 stitches in nine innings. #RedSox #TBvsBOS

Imagine being commander-in-chief of the world’s largest military and still being afraid of Rosie O’Donnell.

#Rosie #Trump #O'Donnell #USA

I never liked Rosie O’Donnell…until today

It is stunning that a federal judge has to write this page of text.

Knitting project, an olive green and cream-striped scarf, along with the yarn skeins from both colors.

Wish I could say I've spent my sick time knitting a lot, but the number of times I've had to undo the wrong stitch is frustrating. 😮‍💨 🧶

Judge orders Trump administration to stop immigration arrests in Southern California without probable cause | CNN Politics A federal judge on Friday found that the Department of Homeland Security has been making arrests in Los Angeles immigration raids without probable cause, ordering the department to stop detaining indi...

A federal judge found that the Department of Homeland Security has been making arrests in Los Angeles immigration raids without probable cause, ordering the department to stop detaining individuals based solely on race, spoken language or occupation.