Nadia Drake

And yours ❤️‍🩹 We really were lucky to share a planet with them.

By us! Thanks for working with me on this one ☺️

NASA’s First-Ever Alien-Hunting Space Telescope Could Enlighten Our New Dark Age The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: NASA’s next-gen Habitable Worlds Observatory may be our best chance to find alien life. But can a nation busy ripping itself apart unite to launch a mission to solve life’s cosmic mysteries? By @nadiadrake.bsky.social (and me).

www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-...

Alex I just heard that we are "sending mankind throughout the universe" so really that's just a tiny hop

Dad and me in the snow; I'm wearing a pink snow suit and am barely old enough to walk. He's holding my hand.

I'm a few years old and am sitting on Dad's shoulders. He looked excited. I look puzzled.

Missing my dad extra hard today — it's been three orbits since he left.

Hmmmm…that’s an auspicious date 🧐

Lots to look at in this subcommittee markup, but: Whose yacht did those orcas attack?? 🤦‍♀️

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This Budget Plan Would Devastate U.S. Space Science Scientists are rallying to reverse ruinous proposed cuts to both NASA and the National Science Foundation

"You’re punching a generation-size hole, maybe a multigenerational hole, in the scientific and technical workforce. You don’t just Cryovac these people and pull them out when the money comes back. People are going to move on.”

www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...

That’s a cool shot! Safe flight and see you soon 🌌

Thank you! I really appreciate it. Yay Clipper!

Meanwhile, check out the midpoint of this re-entry window. (Prediction is current as of 4pm US Eastern, and it will change, but if 2025 wants to be maximally chaotic…it’s on course) #kosmos482 aerospace.org/reentries/6073

“A lot of life’s interesting things are in the bits that don’t fit. The anomalies. The curiosities.” — Jocelyn Bell Burnell

#breakthroughdiscuss

NASA’s Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. Trump Wants to Kill It and Other Vital Science Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

About the leaked NASA budget proposal that kills an almost-ready-to-launch flagship mission: "It sets back a program that is clearly the leading program in the world—in a historic fashion. You take that program and shoot it through the head."

www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

The one science story that friends, family, and neighbors are pinging me about right now:

• K2-18b

I love that people are excited about it! That's great!! But how much damage are we doing to the general appetite for cool, actual science with the type of hyperbole that came from this team?

Mmmmmmhmmmmmmmmmm. Would also add that there’s room for improvement in multiple areas.

These are good conversations to have. 🖖👽

Extremely yes!! Cannot wait. (But do we have to wait five years? Okay…)

And yet, carrying unclassified data about Mars gets you detained and ejected.

A screen grab of Darth Vader asking Princess Leia, “What did you do with those plans you were sent?” It’s from an absolutely genius mash up of Stars Wars set to Beatles songs.

Re-upping this absolute gem for no reason whatsoever.

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An image of a total solar eclipse, seen from the moon's surface. The sun's light is a thin ring around a dark Earth, except where the sun is beginning to emerge from behind the Earth, producing what's colloquially called the "diamond ring" effect.

Wow — this shot of a total solar eclipse is truly one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. Shot from the moon's surface by @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social's Blue Ghost lander, it shows the sun about to emerge from behind the Earth. What a beautiful cosmic perspective! 💍

You’re really selling it! …be right there 😂

😱

Before we know it, California will be called "Champagne" because this is a person who cannot stand being wrong (especially when he's really, really wrong)

She would like a visit and more peanut noodles, please.

Beans SphereXed herself chasing a deer…

"Please stand by. We are awaiting a wayward boat to clear the range." — Blue Origin, accurately telling the story of my launch-reporting life 🚀

Birdy’s warbles make for a fine, fine addition to the town hall audioscape.

I decided to stop in Florida on the way to #AAS245. This pic sucks but we had a great view of the Cape (and New Glenn!) on the way in. 🚀

We don’t have any here ☹️

Found the answer 🌊

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Thank you!