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Sarah Kendrew
@sarahkendrew.bsky.social
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European Space Agency Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD. Team Lead for the MIRI instrument on JWST. Runner, dog mum, cyclist. 🇬🇧🇧🇪 Opinions my own.
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
album cover of the Fugees album, The Score.
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Posted by #Baltimore City of Emergency Management & the Mayor's office on f/b 👀
November 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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In case you missed it… the leaves are turning 🍁🍂 Nature does its thing, and heals the soul.
A forest canopy against a bright blue sky. Mostly green but with some yellows and reds. A birch tree with bright red leaves surrounded by green and yellow canopy.
September 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Raising a glass to @percyrover.bsky.social with this appropriate beverage 🔭🚀 (beer by Great North Aleworks in Manchester, NH)
Beer can showing a cartoon image of the Mars Rover Perseverance. The name of the beer is “Märzen Rover”. The can is perched on a dark wooden bannister, with green woodland in the background.
September 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Astronomers must you really all be doing incredible science while I’m on vacation?! I can’t keep up even just reposting all this good stuff. Anyway here’s a cute dog picture.
Black shepherd dog with white chest and a blue harness standing on a wooden dock with dense green forest in the background, in beautiful morning sunlight . He is looking to his right to something outside the picture.
September 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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hey @wbaltv11.bsky.social, if you're going to join me & Tycho on our morning walk, please give me a heads up so I can wear my formal dog-walking clothes?
black dog wearing an orange harness, facing away from the camera and looking out over the Baltimore Inner Harbor. There are a few boats on the water, and in the distance some low- and high-rise apartment buildings on the waterfront. The sky is blue with some cloud coverage. a helicopter with the WBAL11-tv logo hovering low over the water, causing the water to ripple underneath. In the background there is a marina and some low-rise buildings on the waterfront.
August 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Today I happened to be around for the opening ceremony of the Four Days of the Yzer, a 4-day long-distance walk through Belgian coastal towns organised by the Belgian Defence Force, in remembrance of the victims of the World Wars.
Belgian military dignitaries in uniform bearing black-yellow-red flags and walking along a street in Oostduinkerke. There’s an apartment building and a traffic light in the background.
August 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Regardless of how much time I set aside for Tycho's morning walk, his preferred time for a 30 minute walk is 20 minutes before my first meeting.
black shepherd mix dog lying relaxed on his side on a hardwood floor. his head is raised. picture taken from above.
August 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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#Baltimore’s Katie Pumphrey is close to finishing her 3rd Channel swim. Incredible achievement!
Map showing a red dotted line, finishing near a patch of land that is the Northern French coast.
July 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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love that @esa.int has a spotify playlist for the agency on our intranet landing page 🎵🚀👨‍🚀🪐🔭
screenshot showing "Our Achievements Playlist // Celebrate ESA's Achievements with songs hand picked by you!" with music notes and lighbulb emojis.
July 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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My most recent purchase.
Screenshot of an order confirmation showing: estimated tax - $2.10, Tariff surcharge - $1.75, payment method - pay by card.
July 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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TIL there’s a tech company called Astronomer and I’m having fun reading their webpage like it’s PR for my profession 🔭
“The world’s leading enterprises trust Astronomer for business operations” “Astronomer & Airflow mean business”
July 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Weather definitely incoming #baltimore
Looking out over roofs and treetops at very dark grey angry storm clouds.
July 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Just having a cold fake beer on the patio after the work day, waiting for the storms to roll in ⛈️⛈️⛈️
My face at the edge of the field, looking up at the sky which is cloudy, grey and threatening. Behind me is a wooden privacy fence and some green shrubs.
July 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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In today's Most Obvious Headline.... #Baltimore
screenshot from the Baltimore Banner webpage of a headline that reads: "Johns Hopkins Hospital's 5,000-gallon fuel spill never should have happened". Byline Adam Willis, posted 51m ago.
June 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Black furry alligator spotted on this morning’s trail run. 🖤🐊🐾

Remember to get outside friends, and spend time in nature if you’re able to.
Black shepherd dog wearing a blue harness lying belly-down in a shallow rocky stream. There’s green shrubbery on the opposite bank.
June 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Celebrating #50yearsofESA in Baltimore with @esa.int cake!
a large rectangular cake on a dark table, surrounded by platters with mini pastries. The cake has white frosting with blue frosting trim. In the middle is a logo celebrating the European Space Agency's 50th anniversary.
May 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Happy birthday @esa.int!!! 🎂🥂🥳
Head of ESA Office at STScI, Chris Evans, and Head of ESA Science - Mission Operations, Markus Kissler-Patig, standing behind a lectern labeled “STScI - Space Telescope Science Institute”. The screen behind them shows a slide reading “ESA Celebrates its 50th anniversary today! And almost as many years at STScI…”
May 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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To paraphrase the great @aussiastronomer.bsky.social: it’s Monday night.

I’ve done enough this week.

You’ve done enough this week.

🌎
Black dog playing with a tennis ball on a beach, a few meters in front of the surf. The sky is a cloudless blue, turning orange on the horizon.
May 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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angry clouds bringing some very gnarly weather. #baltimore
View of a dark sky with a very dark shelf cloud stretching across the sky Close up view of a very dark storm cloud
May 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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angry clouds bringing some very gnarly weather. #baltimore
View of a dark sky with a very dark shelf cloud stretching across the sky Close up view of a very dark storm cloud
May 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Dogs were still good this week
Black shepherd-type dog in an orange harness and an orange long lead, standing the beach in front of the waterline. the sky is blue with a few scattered clouds . His tongue is out and he looks happy and relaxed.
May 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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I also got to explore the new Harbor Point waterfront park. So serene and peaceful. Lots of greenery and tributes to the Native tribes of the region. #baltimore
A reddish iron plaque mounted on a concrete wall, which reads “All of the United States is Native land and Baltimore is no exception”.
May 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Fells Point in #Baltimore has a large colony of Black Crested Night Herons - beautiful birds. I stopped to watch for a while on my morning run and met the person who runs a dedicated insta account about them. 34 nests right now!
Looking up through the foliage of a tree, a medium sized white bird with black crest on the head is visible on a branch.
May 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Channeling my anxiety about being a visa holder in the US into posting more #Hubble & #JWST images. So how about them auroras on Neptune?!

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, H. Hammel/H. Melin/L. Fletcher/S. Milam
A two-panel horizontal image. On the left is Neptune observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is a blue circle, tilted about 25 degrees to the left. There are white smudges at 7 o’clock and just above 5 o’clock. At right is an opposing view of the planet, using data from Hubble and Webb. It is a multi-hued blue orb. There are white smudges in the same spots as the image on the left, but also at the center of the planet and at the top. There are cyan smudges vertically along the right side, and the top of these areas are more translucent than the bottom
March 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM