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Isabel Swafford (she/her)
@isabelswaff.bsky.social
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#scicomm 📝 🎥 📱

astronomy nerd, artist, swimmer, indie music lover

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Look up! Tonight is a night sky double feature: the peak of the Orionid meteor shower and Comet Lemmon's closest approach to Earth. Read about Comet Lemmon in my latest piece for National Geographic ☄️

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
This rare green comet won’t return for a thousand years. Here’s how to see it this week.
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that won’t return until the next millennium.
www.nationalgeographic.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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In more red sprite news, an astronaut recently snapped a photo of one from the ISS!

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...

(Thanks @sarahashemi.bsky.social for the shoutout in your article!)
Mysterious 'Red Sprite' Appears in NASA Astronaut Photo From the Space Station. What Is This Strange Electrical Flare?
Red sprites are among a class of enigmatic weather phenomena that appear over thunderstorms, known as Transient Luminous Events
www.smithsonianmag.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Bluesky? I'm more interested in cloudy skies...

Read all about sprites, elves, and jets in my piece for Nat Geo ⚡🌩️

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
#lightning #weather #transientluminousevents #science #space
The most otherworldly, mysterious forms of lightning on Earth
Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above thunderstorms.
www.nationalgeographic.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM