Sophia Gad-Nasr
@astropartigirl.bsky.social
I do cosmology and astroparticle theory. I pick apart the Universe to figure out how it works. Science Advisor. Dark Matter hunter.
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Nice view of rock from the Mars Curiosity Rover taken with MAHLI this week on Sol 4554.
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May 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Nice view of rock from the Mars Curiosity Rover taken with MAHLI this week on Sol 4554.
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tiny Jupiters in UV, visible, and infrared light
May 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
tiny Jupiters in UV, visible, and infrared light
This new JWST image looks like one big spiral galaxy; but it's not! The central spherical blob is a massive galaxy closer to us, and the reddish blue wrapped around it is another spiral galaxy behind it very far away. The central blob should block the light of the spiral; we shouldn't see it at all!
March 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This new JWST image looks like one big spiral galaxy; but it's not! The central spherical blob is a massive galaxy closer to us, and the reddish blue wrapped around it is another spiral galaxy behind it very far away. The central blob should block the light of the spiral; we shouldn't see it at all!
Oh. My. Wow. This image here, THIS STUNNING PHOTO, was taken by Blue Ghost on the Moon. Because while we saw a lunar eclipse on Earth, the Moon saw a solar eclipse at the same time. That's us, Earth, eclipsing the Sun. And it just gives me goosebumps to see like this!!
March 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Oh. My. Wow. This image here, THIS STUNNING PHOTO, was taken by Blue Ghost on the Moon. Because while we saw a lunar eclipse on Earth, the Moon saw a solar eclipse at the same time. That's us, Earth, eclipsing the Sun. And it just gives me goosebumps to see like this!!
My first try of the total lunar eclipse with a Canon EOS RP camera. I'll definitely need to get a telephoto lens!
March 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
My first try of the total lunar eclipse with a Canon EOS RP camera. I'll definitely need to get a telephoto lens!
Lunar eclipse happening right now friends. Can already see a bite taken out of the moon! (This is just taken with my Samsung S24 Ultra for now)
March 14, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Lunar eclipse happening right now friends. Can already see a bite taken out of the moon! (This is just taken with my Samsung S24 Ultra for now)
Wow. Blue Ghost has taken is first images, and one of them was this: sunrise on the Moon. That's our Sun, as a star. From the Moon. Beautiful.
March 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Wow. Blue Ghost has taken is first images, and one of them was this: sunrise on the Moon. That's our Sun, as a star. From the Moon. Beautiful.
Blue Ghost, the moon lander from Firefly Aerospace, landed on the moon last night. It took a selfie from the lander. And that's us, up in the sky ❤️
March 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Blue Ghost, the moon lander from Firefly Aerospace, landed on the moon last night. It took a selfie from the lander. And that's us, up in the sky ❤️
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We see your tiny Hedge Hog (so precious) and we raise you... miniature Galileo!
February 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We see your tiny Hedge Hog (so precious) and we raise you... miniature Galileo!
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A bundle of joy named Lug Nut, located in Evansville, IN.
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/cat/lug-nut-74262548/in/evansville/vanderburgh-humane-society-in190/
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/cat/lug-nut-74262548/in/evansville/vanderburgh-humane-society-in190/
February 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
A bundle of joy named Lug Nut, located in Evansville, IN.
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/cat/lug-nut-74262548/in/evansville/vanderburgh-humane-society-in190/
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/cat/lug-nut-74262548/in/evansville/vanderburgh-humane-society-in190/
Think space exploration is a "waste of money?" If you use/depend on:
- phone camara&smartphone
- scratch resistant lenses
- wireless earbuds
- prosthetics
- CAT scans
- purified water
- memory foam
- solar panels
- LED lights
- fireproof fabrics
Then you benefit from its advancements. FUND IT!
- phone camara&smartphone
- scratch resistant lenses
- wireless earbuds
- prosthetics
- CAT scans
- purified water
- memory foam
- solar panels
- LED lights
- fireproof fabrics
Then you benefit from its advancements. FUND IT!
February 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Think space exploration is a "waste of money?" If you use/depend on:
- phone camara&smartphone
- scratch resistant lenses
- wireless earbuds
- prosthetics
- CAT scans
- purified water
- memory foam
- solar panels
- LED lights
- fireproof fabrics
Then you benefit from its advancements. FUND IT!
- phone camara&smartphone
- scratch resistant lenses
- wireless earbuds
- prosthetics
- CAT scans
- purified water
- memory foam
- solar panels
- LED lights
- fireproof fabrics
Then you benefit from its advancements. FUND IT!
If there's one take away from the TV show "For All Mankind," it's that society held back technological progress by MILLENIA by keeping women out of STEM. Wish we had better tech that could boldly go "where no HUman has gone before?" We likely would have had half the brilliance not been locked away.
February 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
If there's one take away from the TV show "For All Mankind," it's that society held back technological progress by MILLENIA by keeping women out of STEM. Wish we had better tech that could boldly go "where no HUman has gone before?" We likely would have had half the brilliance not been locked away.
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We have a CUB SCOUT EMERGENCY.
Space people, anybody able to help here?
Using social media for this bc
1) urgent
2) at a specific date and time
@philplait.bsky.social @astrochic73.bsky.social @astrokatie.com
Space people, anybody able to help here?
Using social media for this bc
1) urgent
2) at a specific date and time
@philplait.bsky.social @astrochic73.bsky.social @astrokatie.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
We have a CUB SCOUT EMERGENCY.
Space people, anybody able to help here?
Using social media for this bc
1) urgent
2) at a specific date and time
@philplait.bsky.social @astrochic73.bsky.social @astrokatie.com
Space people, anybody able to help here?
Using social media for this bc
1) urgent
2) at a specific date and time
@philplait.bsky.social @astrochic73.bsky.social @astrokatie.com
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Look you know you needed some feel-good news today.
In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
January 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Look you know you needed some feel-good news today.
While it's nice to look up into space to see the enormity of it all, it's also a good reminder to look down, at this beautiful rock we live on, from above. Everything you know, your friends, enemies, what you've learned, loved, hated, experienced, all originated from this beautiful ball we live on.
January 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
While it's nice to look up into space to see the enormity of it all, it's also a good reminder to look down, at this beautiful rock we live on, from above. Everything you know, your friends, enemies, what you've learned, loved, hated, experienced, all originated from this beautiful ball we live on.
If we know each other and you've followed me but I haven't followed you back, please comment here! ❤️
January 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
If we know each other and you've followed me but I haven't followed you back, please comment here! ❤️
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winds from the bright and hot stars, mentioned before, carve out cavities in surrounding gas and dust.
This is the MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) view of NGC 604. Here you can see how large clouds of cooler gas and dust glow in mid-infrared wavelengths.
➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
winds from the bright and hot stars, mentioned before, carve out cavities in surrounding gas and dust.
This is the MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) view of NGC 604. Here you can see how large clouds of cooler gas and dust glow in mid-infrared wavelengths.
➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
January 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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winds from the bright and hot stars, mentioned before, carve out cavities in surrounding gas and dust.
This is the MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) view of NGC 604. Here you can see how large clouds of cooler gas and dust glow in mid-infrared wavelengths.
➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
winds from the bright and hot stars, mentioned before, carve out cavities in surrounding gas and dust.
This is the MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) view of NGC 604. Here you can see how large clouds of cooler gas and dust glow in mid-infrared wavelengths.
➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
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For those who missed it, this is the stunning image from Webb's NIRCam showing NGC 604, a star-forming region located around 2.73 Mly away in the Triangulum galaxy (M33).
Source and more➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #NASAWebb #JWST
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For those who missed it, this is the stunning image from Webb's NIRCam showing NGC 604, a star-forming region located around 2.73 Mly away in the Triangulum galaxy (M33).
Source and more➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #NASAWebb #JWST
January 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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For those who missed it, this is the stunning image from Webb's NIRCam showing NGC 604, a star-forming region located around 2.73 Mly away in the Triangulum galaxy (M33).
Source and more➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #NASAWebb #JWST
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For those who missed it, this is the stunning image from Webb's NIRCam showing NGC 604, a star-forming region located around 2.73 Mly away in the Triangulum galaxy (M33).
Source and more➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #NASAWebb #JWST
Saw these two cosmic beauties in the sky yesterday evening. Perfect timing, I caught a plane as it flew by them!
That's Venus and the Moon, by the way. Be sure to catch a glimpse tonight! The moon will be above Venus instead of below, as you see here. You'll see Saturn farther above.
That's Venus and the Moon, by the way. Be sure to catch a glimpse tonight! The moon will be above Venus instead of below, as you see here. You'll see Saturn farther above.
January 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Saw these two cosmic beauties in the sky yesterday evening. Perfect timing, I caught a plane as it flew by them!
That's Venus and the Moon, by the way. Be sure to catch a glimpse tonight! The moon will be above Venus instead of below, as you see here. You'll see Saturn farther above.
That's Venus and the Moon, by the way. Be sure to catch a glimpse tonight! The moon will be above Venus instead of below, as you see here. You'll see Saturn farther above.
Ending 2024 on a high note. Happy New Year, friends 🎉 Let's make 2025 the best it can be! Thank you to all of you who have followed me on here!
January 1, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Ending 2024 on a high note. Happy New Year, friends 🎉 Let's make 2025 the best it can be! Thank you to all of you who have followed me on here!
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Could we tell whether anyone in our galaxy uses a warp drive?
This sounds like a crazy question, but it can be answered using numerical GR
(one of the fun highlights of the annual theory meeting presented by Katy Clough)
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This sounds like a crazy question, but it can be answered using numerical GR
(one of the fun highlights of the annual theory meeting presented by Katy Clough)
🧵1/7
December 19, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Could we tell whether anyone in our galaxy uses a warp drive?
This sounds like a crazy question, but it can be answered using numerical GR
(one of the fun highlights of the annual theory meeting presented by Katy Clough)
🧵1/7
This sounds like a crazy question, but it can be answered using numerical GR
(one of the fun highlights of the annual theory meeting presented by Katy Clough)
🧵1/7
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On the news the other day they talked about how people are being fooled by AI generated images of the aurora.
When you've seen the real thing, they're easy to spot but I get that it can be hard to tell.
Mine are real and look out for my real-time videos, they show what I saw. 🌌
When you've seen the real thing, they're easy to spot but I get that it can be hard to tell.
Mine are real and look out for my real-time videos, they show what I saw. 🌌
May 8, 2024 at 6:06 PM
On the news the other day they talked about how people are being fooled by AI generated images of the aurora.
When you've seen the real thing, they're easy to spot but I get that it can be hard to tell.
Mine are real and look out for my real-time videos, they show what I saw. 🌌
When you've seen the real thing, they're easy to spot but I get that it can be hard to tell.
Mine are real and look out for my real-time videos, they show what I saw. 🌌
It's World Hamster Day, so I had to share this adorable snap of Muini 🥹❤️ I miss this little bundle of joy. Do you have any hamster pics to share?
April 12, 2024 at 9:40 PM
It's World Hamster Day, so I had to share this adorable snap of Muini 🥹❤️ I miss this little bundle of joy. Do you have any hamster pics to share?
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How fucking cool is this picture from the International Space Station of the eclipse creating a shadow on the Earth during the eclipse.
April 8, 2024 at 9:18 PM
How fucking cool is this picture from the International Space Station of the eclipse creating a shadow on the Earth during the eclipse.