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Jasmine 🌌🔭
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Space Sciences grad student at UTSA/SwRI 💫| Purdue ‘22 Planetary Science 🪐| NASA Solar System Ambassador ☄️| Women in STEM 🧑🏻‍🔬| “We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”- Carl Sagan ✨| I 🩵 Europa

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · Nov 8
soooo introduction time!
i’m jasmine (or jaz), a first-year grad student in the utsa/swri space sciences program. i study europa and its habitability/composition.
i am a science communicator and space nerd who loves astrobio, empowering women in stem, and sharing my love for space with everyone 🌌
A picture of me smiling and holding an inflatable Europa ball with Jupiter and Europa Clipper in the backdrop behind me. I’m wearing a NASA bomber jacket, a space dress, and space converse. A picture of me taken from behind where I’m looking up at the Europa Clipper launch. I’m wearing a black NASA baseball cap.
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This is what the band of the Milky Way would look like at night if your eyes could see radio waves. A hidden beauty.

It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭

www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...
Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created one of the largest low-frequency radio colour images of the Milky Way ever assembled. This spectacular new image captures the Southern Hemisphere view of the Galactic Plane – the disk of our Galaxy, which appears to human eyes as the glowing band of the Milky Way – now revealed across a wide range of radio wavelengths, or ‘colours’ of radio light.
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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happy birthday to my biggest inspiration, one of the pioneers of planetary science and astronomy, carl sagan. we miss you more and more each day ❤️🌌
Carl Sagan with planets behind him
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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there, i’m better now
In what appears as a celestial dreamscape, a blue and black sky filled with brilliant stars covers about two thirds of the image. The stars are different sizes and shades of white, beige, yellow, and light orange. Across the bottom third of the scene is a craggy, mountain-like vista with spire-like peaks and deep, seemingly misty valleys. These so-called mountains appear in varying shades of orange, yellow, and brown. The soaring spires are going up, up, up, where a wispy, ethereal white cloud stretches horizontally across the scene. Steam appears to rise from the mountaintops and join with this cloud. At the top, right corner of the image, a swath of orange and brown structure cuts diagonally across the sky. M55. This image is filled with white stars, smattered with blue-white and reddish-orange stars, all shining against black space. Colorful, mostly red glowing cloud with a distorted, asymmetrical shape that is illuminated from within by a bright central star. The asymmetrical shape resembles a large squished bug on the ground. In the center, a light blue glow appears over areas of dark pockets that look dark blue and are traced with orange material. It has a clumpy appearance. Shells of gas and dust appear as lobes stretching from roughly 11 to 5 o’clock, another from 1 to 7 o’clock, and possibly a third from 12 to 6 o’clock. The shells become a deeper red with distance from the center. These outflows push gas toward the equatorial plane, forming a disk that appears to span from 9 to 3 o’clock. The background of space is black and speckled with tiny bright stars and distant galaxies. The Squid Galaxy is a spiral galaxy, viewed face-on, with tightly packed golden arms and faint purple clouds swirling around a hazy core. At the galaxy's center, million-mile-per-hour winds swirl around a black hole glowing in X-ray light.
November 8, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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i need space.
November 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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imagine how lucky you have to be to see the aurora from an airplane 😭😭
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Spotted the northern lights on my flight from Denver to Chicago this evening!
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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“let’s get this degree i guess”
Zendaya tired reaction pic
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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just in case anyone wanted to know one of the CRAZIEST facts ever

there are 10 QUINTILLION individual insects on earth which is more than the number of stars in the milky way galaxy
Various insects lined up against a white background The Milky Way galaxy
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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hi orion, i missed you
Orion constellation in the night sky
November 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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yall don’t understand, this is a HUGE win for brown people
Zohran Mamdani
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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took this absolutely gorgeous photo of the moon tonight, i love her so much
The full moon in the evening sky
November 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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MY FAVORITE HUBBLE IMAGE!!! THE EAGLE NEBULA 🤩
Me smiling and standing next to a large picture of the Eagle Nebula from Hubble Appearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal, this object is actually a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from the Eagle Nebula. A torrent of ultraviolet light from a band of massive, hot, young stars [off the top of the image] is eroding the pillar. The starlight also is responsible for illuminating the tower's rough surface. Ghostly streamers of gas can be seen boiling off this surface, creating the haze around the structure and highlighting its three-dimensional shape. The column is silhouetted against the background glow of more distant gas. The stars may be heating the gas at the top of the tower and creating a shock front, as seen by the bright rim of material tracing the edge of the nebula at top, left. The dominant colours in the image were produced by gas energized by the star cluster's powerful ultraviolet light. The blue colour at the top is from glowing oxygen. The red color in the lower region is from glowing hydrogen. Caption credit: ESA
November 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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25 years ago today, the first crew arrived at the iss.

since then, we’ve had a CONTINUOUS human presence in space. just think about people born after the launch date, they’ve never been on earth with every single human at once.
The International Space Station
November 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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i firmly believe everyone needs to experience a planetarium show at least once in their lifetime. it puts EVERYTHING into perspective 🌌
A planetarium with a galaxy on the screen
November 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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i was tearing up and smiling almost the entire time. holy shit 🥹 my heart is SOOOO happy!!!
astrojaz.bsky.social Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 8d
GOING TO A PLANETARIUM SHOW TODAY WITH MY FRIENDS IM SO HAPPY!! I HAVENT BEEN TO ONE IN OVER A DECADE!!
November 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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GOING TO A PLANETARIUM SHOW TODAY WITH MY FRIENDS IM SO HAPPY!! I HAVENT BEEN TO ONE IN OVER A DECADE!!
November 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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SPOOKY SPACE PICTURES FOR HALLOWEEN 🎃🌌
As the name implies, this reflection nebula associated with the star Rigel looks suspiciously like a fairytale crone. Formally known as IC 2118 in the constellation Orion, the Witch Head Nebula glows primarily by light reflected from the star. The color of this very blue nebula is caused not only by blue color of its star, but also because the dust grains reflect blue light more efficiently than red. A similar physical process causes Earth's daytime sky to appear blue. A composite image of a pulsar wind nebula which strongly resembles a ghostly purple hand with sparkling fingertips, set against a black, starry backdrop. X-ray observations by Chandra and IXPE reveal that the shape of this pulsar wind nebula strongly resembles a human hand, including five fingers, a palm and wrist. The bright white spot near the base of the palm is the pulsar itself. The three longest fingertips of the hand-shape point toward our upper right, or 1:00 on a clock face. There, a small, mottled, orange and yellow cloud appears to sparkle or glow like embers. This orange cloud is part of the remains of the supernova explosion that created the pulsar. The backdrop of stars was captured in infrared light. Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./R. Romani et al. (Chandra); NASA/MSFC (IXPE); Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DECaPS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt A nebula appearing like a “face” with two “eyes” visible in the center. Active regions on the sun combined to look something like a jack-o-lantern’s face. The active regions in this image appear brighter because those are areas that emit more light and energy. They are markers of an intense and complex set of magnetic fields hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona. Caption credit: NASA
November 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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happy halloween, nova and i were twins this year 🫏🎃
Me wearing an Eeyore onesie looking down My black cat Nova in an Eeyore onesie
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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A BEAUTIFUL AND SPOOKY NEW IMAGE OF THE RED SPIDER NEBULA FROM JWST!! 🌌🕷️
A large planetary nebula. The nebula’s central star is hidden by a blotchy pinkish cloud of dust. A strong red light radiates from this area, illuminating the nearby dust. Two large loops extend diagonally away from the centre, formed of thin ridges of molecular gas, here coloured blue. They stretch out to the corners of the view. A huge number of bright, whitish stars cover the background, also easily visible through the thin dust layers.
October 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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HAPPY 11 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO THE BEST SCI-FI MOVIE OF ALL TIME!!!!
Gargantua black hole from Interstellar The Endurance from Interstellar Dr Brand and Cooper walking through the ocean on Miller’s planet Cooper holding the watch in Interstellar
October 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Fresh JWST view of Uranus taken Oct 6 2025 with NIRCam.

Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2rByidu 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrea Luck CC BY

Proposal PI: Varun Bajaj
Proposal ID: 8975
Filters: F150W2-F162M, F410M
Image of Uranus taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing a whitish north polar region, vivid blue-greenish atmosphere and a few whitish elongated storms visible around the pole. The planet is surrounded by clearly defined ring system set against the black background of space.
October 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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TOMORROW IS A VERY IMPORTANT HOLIDAY
A screenshot of the original Interstellar release date which was October 26, 2014
October 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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A screenshot of me quoting a tweet that reads: “Trump administration considering eliminating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)” and my quote with the “come and take it” image with a space shuttle
October 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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LOOK AT MY VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORD EARRINGS!!!!!
A pair of earrings with the Voyager Golden Record engraved on them
October 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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me and WHO!!!!
Two silhouettes of people sitting next to each other under a starry night sky with white text over the image reading: “watching the stars together”
October 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM