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Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️
@larrynittler.bsky.social
Hermeochemist, Interstellar Dust Buster, and Cosmic Organist.
Professor @SESEASU
asteroid 5992
Opinions are my own.
pronouns: he/him/his
no cheating, repost with the most recent pic of your pet(s)
January 2, 2026 at 3:36 AM
January 2, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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The order of the frames was reversed, now it's correct

#JWST

Resolving the Dynamic ISM with IR Echoes around Cas A

#ECHOW1-NIRCAM
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Jencson, Jacob
NIRCAM 6x 444 360 335

yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
January 1, 2026 at 7:16 PM
December 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Nice of this guy to let the entire scientific community know they have no reason to ever read any of his papers
December 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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📣 JOB: ASU SESE is hiring a (open rank, TT) professor in—you guessed it—Geoscience of Critical Minerals: apply.interfolio.com/179443
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December 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Why do dog people assume everybody else likes dogs? "What, you don't like my pet animal licking your leg? But he's so cute!"

WTF
December 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you see this post a random fact about yourself:

I got an impact crater on Mercury named for Antônio Carlos Jobim
If you see this post a random fact about yourself:

I helped discover one of the six quarks. ⚛️
If you see this post a fact about yourself:

I tried out for Jeopardy.
December 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Make a Bond movie academic.

Moonraker: A Concept Study for a Lunar Regolith Explorer
Common Goldeneye, a comparison of the migratory and non-migratory populations of bucephala clangula.
December 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The boys of the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay
And the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day
December 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
25 years ago today. Dec 24, 2000 we found an Xmas tree shaped iron meteorite #ANSMET
December 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
If it's got snow, it counts as a Christmas movie?
December 24, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"Golden Fleet"
December 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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1/n

2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express

This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris

Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭
December 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The internet has basically sucked since Brunching Shuttlecocks shut down. What was that, 20 years sgo? @loresjoberg.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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I realize this is a long shot, but does anyone know if educators can still borrow the NASA lunar petrographic sets? I have lesson plans for my spring classes that use them, but I know a lot of staff and programs were cut. If they still can be borrowed, the web contacts are not correct anymore.
December 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Rudolph is a lot bigger in real life than he looks in the Rankin/Bass film
December 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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JFK’s niece:

h/t @jamiegangel.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Before he's done he is either going to destroy the MLK Memorial or alter it to be about himself (another form of destruction).
December 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
oops, with 🔭🧪
25 years ago (12-18-00) I and 3 companions were flown by helicopter from our field camp at Meteorite Hills to Derrick Peak, a nearby exposed mountaintop where iron meteorites had been discovered decades earlier. We spent a few hours searching among the rubble. 1/
#ANSMET
December 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
25 years ago (12-18-00) I and 3 companions were flown by helicopter from our field camp at Meteorite Hills to Derrick Peak, a nearby exposed mountaintop where iron meteorites had been discovered decades earlier. We spent a few hours searching among the rubble. 1/
#ANSMET
December 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Alexandra Petri remains a national treasure
December 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The Grinch Who Loved Me
A Hard Day's Grinch
Raiders of the Lost Grinch
December 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM