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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy
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I love space! PhD, Astrophysics 🌌✨✨🌌 come explore our galaxy with me 🔗: https://galaxy.nora-bailey.com/linktree
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Kennedy Space Center, here I come!!
Still can't totally believe I got to do this!! What an experience!
Meet our 2025 Clarion Writers’ Workshop graduates! They’re pictured with their instructors, @jedediahberry.com and GennaRose Nethercott, who led the final two weeks.

It has been an unforgettable summer, and we’re so proud to call this class Clarion alumni!
It makes me physically ill to read this
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Got this lunation's Gibbous Guide out before the end of the waxing gibbous by the skin of my teeth!

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Another exoplanet next door
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Got this lunation's Gibbous Guide out before the end of the waxing gibbous by the skin of my teeth!

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Another exoplanet next door
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Today's procrastination task: going through my personal TikTok account and privating all the insanely embarrassing old videos of me dancing 🙈
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Big day for the matriarchy! 🥳 Huge congrats to the awesome Prof. Doughtery, lead on the Jupiter-bound ESA JUICE mission & STFC Exec Chair.

If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Holyrood 🤗

ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩‍🔬🔭🧪
UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years
Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.
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I'm pretty sure whoever curates the word list in Spelling Bee has never taken a science class
Me trying to order a beer at the bar: 🧍‍♀️

Random guy behind me: woah that is a huge human
Spent a couple hours writing a beautiful scene of about 1300 words, realized the story will be way too long if I include that story beat, and deleted the whole thing 🥲
a black and white dog is running in a kitchen next to a chair .
ALT: a black and white dog is running in a kitchen next to a chair .
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I didn't know that it wasn't mainstream?? It's been in the OED since 1989!
I don't think TikTok quite groks my niche... I mean I'm happy to talk about why Mercury is in retrograde, but I don't think it's going to be what the people searching are looking for!!
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This is absurd.

The red supergiant Betelgeuse is the bright feature in this image.

But that darker blue splotch is a *companion star* that's just been discovered—and it orbits so close to Betelgeuse that it's inside the larger star's outer atmosphere.
I've been so busy with my workshop I haven't had time to keep up with the news, so I'm a couple days late to this slap in the face. The superintendent role is a 3 year position with a mandatory retirement afterwards; VADM Davids is only 18 months in and is being moved to a different role. Sketch af
BREAKING: The Trump administration is removing the U.S. Naval Academy’s first female superintendent, according to news report buff.ly/5aJWK6A
No but he watches it a lot! It came up because he was trying to explain to me just how crazy the recent Australia vs West Indies test 3 match was
A good excuse to procrastinate!
I watched a video which did not help because there were 4 pieces but somehow only one seam?!
My husband is trying to explain the subtleties of air flow around a cricket ball to me, but I'm still way back at the starting line trying to figure out the topology of making a sphere with a single seam.
I am literally in the middle of scripting a video about matter/antimatter asymmetry! Guess I have a new segment to add 😃
After 3 weeks in La Jolla, it feels so nice to be back in Pasadena and WARM again!! 🌞