Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐
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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐
@astrojaket.bsky.social
Astronomer studying the magnetic fields & atmospheres of exoplanets at Cornell | Environmentalist & activist | Photographer | Traveler | (he/him) | #BLM #LGBTQ #Climate #Resister #FBR

🐦: astro_journey
🔗: https://sites.google.com/site/astrojaketurner
First snow here in Ithaca NY ❄️
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A lot of folks in the US will have a chance to see auroras tonight 🌌🔭

Clear skies! 🤞

(Too cloudy here in Ithaca 😭)
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Northern lights tonight over Cayuga Lake in Ithaca, NY 🔭
September 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Blue skies
September 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Milky Way near my house 🔭
July 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
“One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969 🔭
July 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Exoclimes 2025 (@exoclimes.bsky.social) was an amazing week of science, meeting old friends, making new friends and colleagues, and having fun exploring Montreal! 😊

Thanks everyone!
July 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I'm in Montreal this week for Exoclimes 🇨🇦

Excited for a great week of exoplanet science! 😀
July 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Pluto at Fuertes Observatory 🔭

Taken through the 102-year-old Irving Porter Church Refractor

Image taken by Ben Jacobson-Bell & The Cornell Astronomical Society
July 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Today is my 7th PhD Anniversary!! 🥳🎓

Wow, how time flies 🤯

Picture from my PhD dinner 👇
June 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
My current research focuses on using TESS to study the changing orbits of exoplanets 🔭

See the epic trailer for the TESS mission below! 🤯
May 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Happy 35th Birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope!! 🔭

I had pictures of Hubble on my wall as a kid. And now I'm an Astronomer. What a journey 🤯
April 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us... To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, & to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." Carl Sagan #earthdayeveryday #EarthDay
April 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Stand up for SCIENCE! 🔭🧪

#StandUpForScience
Here are actions you can take today & into the future
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March 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Blue Ghost lunar lander orbiting over the surface of the Moon 🔭

Wow 🤯
February 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Happy Valentine's Day!
February 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Sunset last night
February 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Hello blue skies & some clouds
February 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Gillis, my postbac researcher this year, left me an extremely kind note about how much they appreciated my guidance this past year ☺️

It is moments like this that makes it worth it

My heart is full 🥰
January 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Cold but blue skies ☀️
January 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Sir Watson on Caturday
January 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Super cold but we have blue skies! 🥶☀️
January 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Good morning
January 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Sir Watson is ready for Christmas
December 23, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Sir Watson on the Solstice Caturday 😸
December 21, 2024 at 5:44 PM