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yesenia lightyear
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✨ HWO/Universe comms @ NASA Goddard
🌋 (lunar) volcanology/geology
⚒️ Maker - laser cutting/paper crafts
🪩 DJ - UK Garage, Disco, House

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my interests are literally colliding, and I didn't know this could happen #VOLNADO!!!!!
September 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I don't think I have many, or any, Miami people on here but if y'all knew Cisco, he passed away two weeks ago.

RIP to a day-one homie, here's some shots of us in high school sent over by another day-one
August 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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These big ol blocks that I assume fell out of the Skyline arch in Utah #internationalrockday
A person standing with their right leg propped up on a rock in the middle of a group of very large boulders. Directly above, an arch is carved out of some rock. The rocks are all orange red.
July 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Caught a couple of my favorites from the workshop -- rainbow tardigrades and a beautiful rocky paradise #LPSC2025
March 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Welp... I'll stick to DJing lol

But here's my cosmic road trip past Saturn and Discoballtia

Thanks to Laura and Grace for a fun activity! #LPSC2025
Watercolor painting of Saturn in bottom left corner, a disco ball planet in the top right corner, and a rainbow colored road running between the two planets.
March 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Regolith paint in the art workshop! Laura Lawson has started to use lunar simulants to create textured paint. #LPSC
Different paint swaths on white paper. The paint is greyish brown and textured.
March 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Favorite photo from the Tuesday poster session #LPSC2025
Yesenia standing in front of their poster, caught halfway through making a face and waving finger guns.
March 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Really happy to finally see some representation in the NASA leadership that is here this week! This is MSR Program Director Donya Douglas-Bradshaw #LPSC2025
March 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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I'm at #LPSC2025 for the first time! Catch me at the Tuesday "Impactful Lunacy" poster session where I'll be sharing my progress in looking for non-impact craters in Sinus Viscositatis (#2842).

Aleks, my coauthor, also has another poster with a map of SV near the Gruithuisen Domes (#2289).
Two people smiling and standing in front of an inflatable moon. One is pointing at a site on the moon, the other is pointing two thumbs up at the camera.
March 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Dominican Independence Day was 02/27 so sharing some photos I took at the first Dominican rally in the DMV 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴
A domino board decorated with the shield from the Dominican Republic flag. There are dominoes on the board and someone keeping score on a small notebook A Dominican carnival character el Diablo Cojuelo, or the devil with a limp. The costume is brightly colored in red and orange, with a mask that has two large horns. A fake storefront fashioned to look like "el colmadon", or the corner store, a staple in Dominican communities. A woman wears the Dominican flag draped over her shoulders, and another woman wears a bucket hat decorated with the Dominican flag.
March 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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My grandpa also would have turned 83 last Friday.

I can't believe it's been 5 years already.
An altar containing a photo of an older man and wife, flowers, a shot of rum, and some candles.
February 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Friday was Laika's birthday. She would have been 20!

I miss her very much.
A dog sitting in the backseat of a car. The dog is short haired with brown and black coloring, and a large white spot on the chest and white hair around the face. Her ears are perked up and her tongue is hanging out. She is also wearing a blue bandana around her neck.
February 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Happy Valentine's Day!! @danie11ewi1cox.bsky.social
February 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Dissociating behind a lens around DC
Photo of an orange building. In the foreground there is a flagpole and leafless trees Photo of an orange building in the center of the shot. Leafless trees form a semicircle on the left and right of the building. In the foreground there is a small decorative pool/fountain A small peek of a section of an orange building in between the branches of some trees. The corner of an orange building. There are trees in the bottom left and right and the sky is bright blue above it with some wispy white clouds.
February 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Interesting! You're the first person I've seen actually give constructive criticism cause everybody else has just loved it or hated it, no notes. Someone posted some clips though and I saw this photo below and was like 😨 girl

I'm going tomorrow so I guess we'll see
You don't wanna know... Jk. A woman embracing a very thin man. All of his bones are visible through his skin.
January 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Maybe there's a lot more interesting things to be talking about rn but it's SNOWING IN FLORIDA 🫨🫨🤯
A screenshot of a tweet from weather person Ben noll. It says that "by Wednesday, parts of the Gulf coast and southeast will have received more snow this winter than New York City." The tweet has a map showing snowfall estimates for the southeastern US A tweet from Channing Frampton showing a video of a highway sign in Pensacola, florida that says "winter storm warning in effect" A map from NOAA highlighting extreme weather in the United States. A screenshot of a tweet from Matt Devitt, a weather person in Pensacola. The photo in the tweet shows a "welcome to the free state of Florida, the sunshine state"sign with snow in the foreground.
January 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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It's #AAS245!

👾 Tonight (and all week!) find me at the #HWO table at the NASA booth
🌚 Monday: Catch me at my poster at the 9am session
✨ Wednesday: I'll be a part of the @blackinastro.bsky.social "Impact of Identity in Space Science Advancement" panel at 2pm
A poster detailing events related to the habitable worlds observatory at AAS 245 A sticker with the words "for the Crater Good across the center" and contact info for Yesenia. There is a lunar crater in the foreground of the sticker, and earth in the cente background Yesenia is smiling and shooting a peace sign at the camera. They are adorned in a scarf and armband with the Dominican Republic flag on it, and holding a small flag
January 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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New year, new Universe update! Celebrate with a sparkling spray of stars, celestial fireworks, and new beginnings (AKA protoplanetary disks) science.nasa.gov/universe/
Bright blue white stars fill this photo. They are concentrated in the right side. There is a bright reddish orange star in the upper left of the image, near the center.
January 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Wait a min. I just presented a poster. On moon stuff. I'm a scientist! Like a space scientist!

Just slow and steady rising above every dang obstacle in my way and I'm finally, FINALLY doing research on another celestial body. Learning about space. And this stupid lamp made me realize it
A lamp shaped like an astronaut holding up a moon, statue of Liberty style. The astronaut is also standing on a piece of the moon.
December 19, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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I included this section in my poster for other early career folk and it really resonated with folks! I'm happy that we could all commiserate on the fact that research is difficult and there are a lot of things that go unsaid in the process.
December 16, 2024 at 1:24 AM
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So I was ready to say never again to AGU because man the size of this conference was overwhelming *but* everyone that passed by my poster was so positive and helpful that I'm actually pumped to incorporate the tips folks gave me.

What a great volcano/mapping community!!
December 16, 2024 at 1:24 AM
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Are you at #AGU24 and excited about HWO? That makes you a HWOmie!

Pass by the NASA booth tomorrow morning from 10a-6p to get a ribbon and meet other HWO researchers and enthusiasts.
A name badge from AGU 2024 with a ribbon that says "here for my HWOmies" Informational flyer about the habitable worlds observatory related events at AGU 2024
December 10, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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Friends I'm at #AGU24 this week! Find me at NASA booth 719 Wednesday morning from 10a-2p. And at poster P51E-3013 "For the Crater Good."

Mutuals, I'd love to come see your poster/presentation, or just meet up to say hi. Hit me up!
Yesenia smiling and holding up a paper frame with the AGU 24 hashtag and the words "this is what a scientist looks like" Yesenia making a face and holding up a paper frame with the AGU 24 hashtag and the words "this is what a scientist looks like" A round sticker of a crater on the moon in the foreground with the earth in the background. The words "For the Crater Good" run across the center of the sticker. There is conference info on the left side of the sticker and Yesenia's social media info on the right
December 9, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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Apparently, the round logo is called the NASA meatball because of its connection with aeronautics. There's a naval optical landing system called the meatball.

The older, unofficial logo is called "the worm" cause of its rounded edges
The NASA worm logo, the four letters in red font on a white background.
November 19, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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I just printed my first NASA publication! Look ma, there's a meatball on it!!

Get one from me at the NASA booth at AGU on Wednesday, 12/11 🤓
A person wearing all black with shoulder length curly hair, smiling and holding up an informational flyer. The flyer says "habitable worlds observatory" and has an image of the proposed telescope on it. Informational flyer about habitable worlds related events at AGU 2024.
November 19, 2024 at 10:29 PM