Nora's Guide to the Galaxy

We can do it 💪🌄

Oh no, I am firmly anti bloody Mary! I prefer a mimosa for my breakfast alcohol

Tada! youtu.be/ESG3O7GLQXc

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My ex and I used to meet up for dinner with one of us getting burgers from In n Out and the other getting fries from Five Guys. Perfect meal!!

Yum that sounds awesome, I love pickles! But not in beer 😔

That sounds potentially better! The competition between beer flavor and pickle flavor was too much

Update: neither of us could finish the beer 😝

Yes I love these chips! Really this is my fault for buying them

The beer was terrible 😭

My husband had an idea...

My husband asks a question and gets a whole ass YouTube video a month later 😅

Took a picture to check my makeup before filming a video (coming next Monday!) and it turned out so ✨ dramatic ✨ lmao

The number of times I have worked out the math for something only to realize I basically ended up being like "oh yeah 2 + 2 IS four"

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a plot of two sine curves and their sum, no axes are labeled

Made this plot for a video I'm working on 👀👀

Yes he was happy this morning! I got to hear all about the new opener who isn't an opener? Pretty crazy how fast it went! He told me no one was buying day 4 and 5 tickets because it wasn't expected to go that long, but two days! That's blazing fast for cricket 😅

I love that one!!

Yesterday my husband crowed that England batted for about half of what would be considered a good at bat. So tonight I saw him watching the cricket I asked "how much are you guys winning by?"

"We're not..."

"Wait, what? I thought England did really bad?"

"They did. And then we did even worse..."

Best Planetary Society accomplishment (thanks to the support of our members!): Awarding a new round of Shoemaker NEO Grants

Assisting with planetary defense and continuing to support and expand the field!

Best “Fact Worth Sharing” from our weekly Downlink newsletter: Saturn’s 274 moons amount to more than the total number of known moons around all the other planets combined. The ringed planet has nearly three times as many known moons as [...] Jupiter.

I 🧡 moons and I 🧡 Saturn, nuff said 🪐

Best performance by a space science mission: Parker Solar Probe made the closest-ever pass of the Sun

This was technically in 2024 (the first time) but I think was after last year's voting. PSP passed within 4 million miles of the Sun's surface, which is actually insane. A chilly 1700°F 🥶

Best performance by a celestial body: Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS entered the Solar System

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE, but seriously, it's so exciting that we are starting to detect more of these. This baby is just screaming through the solar system!

Best space exploration image: Virgo cluster from @vrubinobs.bsky.social

I mean, come on!! Not only is it SO fucking beautiful, but how exciting that Rubin is on?! This has actually been my laptop lock screen image since it was released.

Best of 2025 Cast your vote for the best of space exploration and science in 2025!

Every year the Planetary Society does a voted "best of" for space, and I love voting! Here's how I voted this year:

www.planetary.org/best-of-2025

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YouTube video by Dr. Nora's Guide to the Galaxy Where's All the Antimatter??

Stuff exists, and that's a problem....

youtu.be/aP5L7rAzaFQ

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Kennedy Space Center, here I come!!

It's just a baby (exoplanet)!

It's lunation 1270 and exciting things are happening in space & astronomy: ngttg.kit.com/posts/it-s-j...

YouTube video by Nora's Guide to the Galaxy Clarion / August 2025 Update Vlog

I yapped for a little bit about life and Clarion

youtu.be/J7iyDNJ7NrQ

Still can't totally believe I got to do this!! What an experience!