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Father, husband, astronomer, educator, saxophonist, sci-fi fan, stardust contemplating the stars.
On its birthday, share one image from your favorite #TNG episode.
28.09.2025 23:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An artist's rendering of NOAA's SWFO-L1 satellite in space orbit next to a image of the sun producing a coronal mass ejection. Earth is seen in the far distance. Image credit: NOAA Satellites.
Countdown to launch: NOAA’s #SWFOL1 #Satellite #Observatory
Safeguarding society, a million miles from home ...
Scheduled for September 23, 2025, from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
--> Bookmark: noaa.gov/SWFOL1
For me growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness the answer would have been All, including birthdays, and I’ll be obligated to explain to everyone how each holiday specifically offends Jehovah.
02.09.2025 02:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lara Waldrop PhD of the University of Illinois at UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory.
Lara Waldrop PhD of the University of Illinois at UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory.
Lara Waldrop PhD of the University of Illinois at UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory.
Big thank you to Lara Waldrop for the talk at SSL. Lara leads the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory. It will orbit the Sun to capture UV images of Earth’s exosphere. SSL built many of the instruments and will contribute to the research and operate the spacecraft.
28.08.2025 18:07 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will launch next month! Check out our latest video about the mission profiling its leader, Dr. Lara Waldrop.
youtu.be/T4AVeVz9GwM?...
We put rooftop solar on our home 3 years ago. It generates more electricity annually than we use (including electric car charging and air conditioning).
06.08.2025 15:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is preparing to launch this fall. This exciting new mission will journey a million miles from home to study Earth’s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere. We’re premiering a new video about the mission on YouTube today.
youtu.be/UUL8z4vWSGI?...
This always bugged me too. She did not start the war. If her mutiny had succeeded, she might have averted it.
10.07.2025 22:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Same
22.06.2025 20:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh you know…life
It’s pretty chill here. Very diverse communities.
"These are kids who will never pay taxes," Kennedy declared. "They'll never hold a job. They'll never play baseball. They'll never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted. We have to recognize we are doing this to our children."
I honestly can’t stop thinking about this RFK speech. A lot of the outrage around it is focused on pointing out that it’s not true.
But so fucking what if it was? Do people whose bodies don’t work not deserve to exist in society? If all these things were true for a person are they less worthy?
I will say to you what I say to my students.
We know the climate is changing, we know why it is changing and that we are the cause, we know what we need to do.
We. Just. Need. To. Do. It. (3/)
He solves the paradox in a few different ways: great filter, galactic quarantine, simulation…
09.04.2025 17:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Rose, I missed this news last month and I’m so sorry for you.
If you want a thought partner to help brainstorm pathways from here, I’d be happy to chat. Been trying to figure things out myself…
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
29.03.2025 16:44 — 👍 34303 🔁 10893 💬 652 📌 461Many do! On my iPhone it’s an accessibility function. When I triple-press the side button it activates. Very useful for preserving my night vision when working in the planetarium.
19.03.2025 00:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I was honored to speak at the Stand Up for Science March in Berkeley yesterday. The text of my remarks is in the photos. I hope this momentum continues.
Let there be light.
