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Jasmine 🌌🔭
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Space Sciences grad student at UTSA/SwRI 💫| Purdue ‘22 Planetary Science 🪐| NASA Solar System Ambassador ☄️| Women in STEM 🧑🏻‍🔬| “We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”- Carl Sagan ✨| I 🩵 Europa

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · Nov 8
soooo introduction time!
i’m jasmine (or jaz), a first-year grad student in the utsa/swri space sciences program. i study europa and its habitability/composition.
i am a science communicator and space nerd who loves astrobio, empowering women in stem, and sharing my love for space with everyone 🌌
A picture of me smiling and holding an inflatable Europa ball with Jupiter and Europa Clipper in the backdrop behind me. I’m wearing a NASA bomber jacket, a space dress, and space converse. A picture of me taken from behind where I’m looking up at the Europa Clipper launch. I’m wearing a black NASA baseball cap.
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this photo i’ve taken would’ve done NUMBERS on tumblr
My friend and I doing a hand heart in front of a starry night sky
November 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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in case you didn’t know, in a year voyager 1 will be 1 light-DAY away from earth.

it took almost 50 YEARS of travel time to reach that distance and will be the first human-made object to reach this distance.
Voyager 1 artist’s depiction.
November 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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i miss being under a sky like this
A silhouette of my hand appearing to reach out towards a starry night sky with the Milky Way streaking across it.
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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hubble- n159 star-forming cloud

2016 | 2025
A field filled with stars and covered by clouds of gas and dust. The centre is blanketed with billowing, blue clouds. They are opaque some places — showing clusters of stars forming within — and transparent others. Small patches are dark black in colour. The right side of the view, mostly gas-free, glitters with stars near and far. A field filled with stars and covered by clouds of gas and dust. The centre and left side are totally blanketed with billowing, bright red clouds. They are opaque some places — showing clusters of stars forming within — and transparent others. Small patches are dark black in colour, while a large cloud below the centre is mostly pale blue. The right side of the view, mostly gas-free, glitters with stars near and far
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF THE STAR-FORMING CLOUD N159 IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD!! 🌌
A field filled with stars and covered by clouds of gas and dust. The centre and left side are totally blanketed with billowing, bright red clouds. They are opaque some places — showing clusters of stars forming within — and transparent others. Small patches are dark black in colour, while a large cloud below the centre is mostly pale blue. The right side of the view, mostly gas-free, glitters with stars near and far
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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i looked back at my stargazing photos and i caught a GALAXY with my PHONE camera!!! 🥹🌌
A starry night sky with a faint galaxy in the image. A zoomed in photo of a starry sky with a galaxy visible.
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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not one, not two, but THREE galaxies from space!! what a beautiful sight 🌌

📸: don pettit
Three galaxies visible from space with the Milky Way and many stars.
November 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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TODAY’S NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF THE LOST GALAXY 🌌
A close-in view of a spiral galaxy that faces the viewer. Brightly lit spiral arms swing outward through the galaxy’s disk, starting from an elliptical region in its center. Thick strands of dark reddish dust spread across the disk, primarily along the spiral arms. The arms also contain many glowing, pink-red spots where stars form and clumps of bright-blue star clusters. Beyond its spiral arms, the galaxy is a bit fainter and speckled with blue stars.
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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it’s SO exciting to see images from a spacecraft you work on, even if they’re just test images 🥹

this is a starfield image from europa clipper, including the planet uranus! it was taken to test clipper’s star-tracking cameras!!
An annotated version of the image with Uranus and several background stars labeled. NASA/JPL-Caltech
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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here is the pleiades along with orion which i captured when stargazing this past weekend 🥹 what an absolutely beautiful sight 🌌
The Pleiades and Orion in a starry sky. The Pleiades is visible near the top of the image and Orion is visible at the bottom towards the left.
November 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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WAKE UP BABE, A NEW JWST IMAGE DROPPED!!! 🌌✨
4 dust shells expand away from 3 central stars that appear as a single pinpoint of light. The innermost shell is smallest, like the size of a thumbprint, and brightest. It is yellow and forms a backward lowercase e. A line at 3 o’clock swoops to the bottom-left in an arc that ends at 8 o’clock. A second line at 9 o’clock dips down to start, but then goes straight up, angling around the top. The 2nd shell, about the size of a fist, is orange and has looser arcs. One appears from 4 to 7 o’clock. A brighter orange triangle appears from 10 to 12 o’clock. Its outer edges overlap, forming a rough circle. The third shell extends almost to the edges and is semi-translucent red, with similar arcs and a darker red line that also forms a faint triangle at top left. The widest shell is faintest and at the edges. A semi-transparent blue appears across the scene. A larger foreground star with spikes is at bottom left, and more distant stars and galaxies are strewn across the black expanse of space.
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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stargazing literally heals the soul
A silhouette of a telescope and a person against a starry night sky with the Milky Way visible overhead
November 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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red spider nebula- hubble vs webb:
Hubble’s image shows thick orange clouds of dust forming a cross shape around a star in the center. Webb’s image reveals many stars hidden behind the dust clouds of a nebula, which appear as translucent blue loops that meet at the center.
November 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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i am THE star girl 🌌
My silhouette looking up at a starry night sky
November 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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there’s truly nothing better than stargazing with friends!!!
Two silhouettes of my friend and I standing next to each other under a starry night sky
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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gave the sky another hug last night 🥹
My silhouette holding my arms up to a starry night sky with the Milky Way faintly visible
November 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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i can’t believe there are people that get to see the milky way every single night!!! HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE GOD’S FAVORITE
The Milky Way streaking across a starry sky
November 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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i caught jupiter, orion, and the pleiades all in one photo!!! 🥹🌌
A starry night sky with a few noticeable features: Jupiter appears in the bottom left as a bright white dot, the Pleiades star cluster is at the very top towards the center, and Orion is towards the bottom on the right. There is also a silhouette of a person on the bottom right corner.
November 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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reach for the stars ✨
A silhouette of my hand appearing to “reach up” for a star filled night sky
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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I GOT SOOOOOO MANY GOOD PICTURES TONIGHT FROM STARGAZING HOLY SHIT IDK WHICH ONES TO POST 😭😭
November 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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GOING STARGAZING AGAIN TOMORROW SO GET READY FOR MORE PICS LIKE THESE!!!!
My side profile against a starry night sky A silhouette of me holding my arms up to a starry night sky
November 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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FIRST NEW HUBBLE IMAGE AFTER THE SHUTDOWN!!! WE ARE SO BACK!! 🌌
An oval-shaped spiral galaxy. Only the center and lower half of the galaxy is in frame. Its center is primarily golden in color with a white glowing core, while its thick spiral arms are mostly blue, particularly at the outskirts; these colors merge in between. Dark lanes of dust swirl through the center, blocking some of the galaxy’s light. Stars and distant galaxies are visible around the edges on a black background.
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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OH MY GOD I SAW THE AURORA TONIGHT!!! IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL!!
The night sky with red and green colored in
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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THE MILKY WAY IS FAINT BUT I CAN SEE IT 🥹🌌
The night sky with many stars and the faint milky way streaking across it
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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no aurora, but damn did this sky make me happy 🥹
A night sky filled with many stars
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM