Jamie L. Molaro
LightNews LightNews
banner
spacejammie.bsky.social
Jamie L. Molaro
@spacejammie.bsky.social
5.3K followers 300 following 1.4K posts
Planetary Scientist, Artist, Musician, D&D Nerd, Epic Poet. hEDS, Bi ♿️🏳️‍🌈

I like rocks, study asteroids, and make art out of spacecraft data. I also play harp, own a carousel, and my dog is really cute.

www.jamiemolaro.com
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
spacejammie.bsky.social
Jamie L. Molaro @spacejammie.bsky.social · Oct 18
Our 2024 Engagement Report is out! For new followers, the #SkyhorseCarousel is an amusement ride, piece of #SciArt, and science outreach installation celebrating human culture and cosmology from ancient and modern times which we just brought to Burning Man!

skyhorsecarousel.com/news-updates/
Watercolor of a carousel showing colorful figures, with a large canopy tent in the background and a slightly cloudy sky.
Reposted by Jamie L. Molaro
flyingtrilobite.com
From paleoart to fine art,
comics to medical animation,
bioart to space imagery,
explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with the SciArt Starter Pack.

150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡 to pin to your skyline.

And no gen AI or NFTs. 🥳
December 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Reposted by Jamie L. Molaro
spacejammie.bsky.social
Fable worked hard all weekend :)
A dog sunning herself in the grass while humans work in the background behind her.
December 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
spacejammie.bsky.social
Last weekend we had back-to-back work days for #SkyhorseCarousel to take down, prep, and prime all the scenery panels to get them ready to repaint. I was never a fan of their former color scheme, so we'll give them a new look with new scenes/animals adding Sky Stories to the astronomy theme. #SciArt
Group of people kneeling around a large triangular panel masking its edges with tape Two people sitting next to a large, flared, semi-circular panel unscrewing lightbulbs from it A man standing over a smaller panel reasting on a work table and holding a paint sprayer in one hand over it. Racks holding all the scenery panels in fresh white primer, with the "naked" carousel seen behind it.
December 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
spacejammie.bsky.social
I will take every opportunity to yell at a person illegally parked in a disabled spot. The ones that don’t get embarrassed often try the “calm down, you don’t have to be so angry” line. My dude, I wouldn’t have to be angry if you weren’t a selfish asshole. Spot was filled legally the moment he left.
December 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
spacejammie.bsky.social
Cleaning up my office and getting organized for a big carousel work day tomorrow so naturally that means I’m also having a midnight solo dance party.
December 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
spacejammie.bsky.social
I got us two puzzle advent calendars from a company called Cloudberries (a fruit with which I was already obsessed). We’re starting a few days late but you don’t know the picture ahead of time and it’s pretty fun. (Bonus that it’s designed to be reusable with the backs of each piece numbered.)
A square shaped corner of a puzzle showing a pink and orange hazy background with Christmas ornaments, leaves, and a kid on a swing. Next to the puzzle is the box which has small boxes inside numbered for each day.
December 6, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Reposted by Jamie L. Molaro
sciencesocks.bsky.social
You're gonna make me beg for it, aren't you? 🙃

The bootprint hoodies are 98% funded, with only a few more hours left. We need to sell two(‼) more hoodies! 🥺🙏

Your small step can turn this project into a giant leap! 🚀

🐡🧪🎨

Grab your hoodie here & please share:
sciencesocks.co/products/apo...
Apollo 11 Bootprint Hoodie
Inspired by the iconic Apollo 11 bootprint on the Moon, we set out to get as close to the real thing as possible. This was no small step, but we did it. Meet our lunar bootprint hoodie with a true 3D ...
sciencesocks.co
December 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
spacejammie.bsky.social
It’s so nice outside, I’d rather be enjoying it than writing a budget but this is what we get for being adults.
December 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Reposted by Jamie L. Molaro
philplait.bsky.social
This is a staggering cool JWST image of one of the most terrifying star systems I have ever seen. Apep is a monster… *three* monsters, actually, and blasting out radiation and dust and junk at speeds to freeze the soul.

Read all about it!

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-ridiculo...

🔭 🧪
A ridiculously jaw-dropping JWST image of a fantastically terrifying star system
Apep consists of three immense and immensely powerful stars blasting out a fierce dusty wind
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Jamie L. Molaro
disabledinstem.bsky.social
It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!

Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...

Applications due December 5th!
Promotional graphic for the DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship Program. The background is a dark blue gradient with flowing wave-like patterns in blue and gold. At the top, white text reads: “DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship Applications Now Open.” Below, a yellow box with black text says: “Seeking Disabled Mentees and Dedicated Mentors to Champion Inclusion in STEM.” At the bottom, white text states: “Applications due December 5th.” In the lower right corner, there is the DisabledInSTEM logo.
October 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
spacejammie.bsky.social
I decided I needed a new portrait for various uses so I spent the morning making dumb faces at a camera. It turns out that when you take a bajillion photos a few of them turn out pretty ok! Thank goodness for the built-in lighting filters on phones now.
Photograph of myself sitting on bench, leaning forward with my chin rest on one palm. Photograph of myself sitting on bench, leaning slightly back with one arm crossing my chest to rest on the other. Photograph of myself sitting on bench, leaning forward with both arms resting on my crossed knee towards the foreground, my atattoo shows on my left wrist. Photograph of myself sitting on bench, leaning slightly back with both arms grabbing the back of the bench.
December 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
spacejammie.bsky.social
Just got stuck up the street from our house for 10 min bringing Fable back from our walk because there was a coyote just sunning himself and rolling in the fake grass in our front yard ☀️ Managed to call a neighbor to shoo it away before Fable could see and try to chase it!
December 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Reposted by Jamie L. Molaro
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
Let's get #ArtAdventCalendar rolling!

It's December 1 somewhere right now.

Saskatchewan Supercell 32x40in 81x102cm
Oil on Canvas
2019

#Art #Painting
Abstract landscape painting: Blue green mothership storm with heavy rain at bottom with a green field in foreground.
December 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
spacejammie.bsky.social
I thought I might make a little dice version of my #FrameOfReference #SciArt sculpture, you know, just to mash two nerdy things together for no reason?

Boy the laser settings are fiddly though! The small size of the dice are a real challenge to getting clean, visibly separate dots with some depth.
My hand holding a red six-sided di that has the Scorpius constellation engraved on one side.
December 1, 2025 at 4:23 AM
spacejammie.bsky.social
Apparently this holiday season is a season of puzzles, not sure what i spired it but we’re trying to finish puzzle two this month in time to start our puzzle advent calendars.
November 30, 2025 at 5:16 AM
spacejammie.bsky.social
PRETTY GOOD. I used 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 powdered ginger, and 1/2 nutmeg and it came out excellent. A slightly savory flavor with just a little bit of bite to it. *chef’s kiss*
spacejammie.bsky.social Jamie L. Molaro @spacejammie.bsky.social · 15d
Bakin’ pies, bakin’ a pie 🎵 🥧

I heard there was some pie discourse that I missed. My go-to is peach blackberry for any occasion, but Ian likes apple so I thought this holiday I’d try a blackberry apple.
November 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
spacejammie.bsky.social
Ahhh, enjoying the fall colors of California on this fine day ;)
A mostly bare bush with a handful of red and yellow leaves which viewers may recognize as poison oak.
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
spacejammie.bsky.social
Bakin’ pies, bakin’ a pie 🎵 🥧

I heard there was some pie discourse that I missed. My go-to is peach blackberry for any occasion, but Ian likes apple so I thought this holiday I’d try a blackberry apple.
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
spacejammie.bsky.social
lol opened up a package of air filter replacements that clearly aren’t made in the IS because the front of the box includes a list of “Warm Tips”.
November 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
spacejammie.bsky.social
Oldie but goodie of Fable <3 We are looking forward to a nice quiet holiday at home this week with snuggles, sunsets, and pjs.
View of dog from behind as it lays in the grass, looking out into the distance into green hills and a sunset.
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
spacejammie.bsky.social
Planetary folks, we are visiting Merida in January for my big 4-0 birthday. Anyone know of any cool Chicxulub related sites or places worth visiting?

I already have the archeoastronomy angle covered ;)
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
spacejammie.bsky.social
Getting started a little early in my office :) 🎠
Photo of an antique carousel horse, all white still painted in primer, with a holly garland and string of jingle bell lights draped on it.
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Reposted by Jamie L. Molaro
silverlightzoi.bsky.social
just found out that the Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving painting was originally published alongside an anticapitalist essay by a then unknown Filipino-American writer and labor organizer (Carlos Bulosan). damn www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/12/carl...
Freedom from want by Norman Rockwell painting shows an aproned matriarch presenting a roasted turkey to a family of several generations,[9] in Rockwell's idealistic presentation of family values. The patriarch looks on with fondness and approval from the head of the table,[10] which is the central element of the painting. Its creased tablecloth shows that this is a special occasion for "sharing what we have with those we love", according to Lennie Bennett.[8] The table has a bowl of fruit, celery, pickles, and what appears to be cranberry sauce. There is a covered silver serving dish that would traditionally hold potatoes, according to Richard Halpern,[11] but Bennett describes this as a covered casserole dish.[8] The servings are less prominent than the presentation of white linen, white plates and water-filled glasses. The people in the painting are not yet eating, and the painting contrasts the empty plates and vacant space in their midst with images of overabundance.[12 Freedom from Want Originally published March 6, 1943 If you want to know what we are, look upon the farms or upon the hard pavements of the city. You usually see us working or waiting for work, and you think you know us, but our outward guise is more deceptive than our history. Our history has many strands of fear and hope, that snarl and converge at several points in time and space. We clear the forest and the mountains of the land. We cross the river and the wind. We harness wild beast and living steel. We celebrate labor, wisdom, peace of the soul. When our crops are burned or plowed under, we are angry and confused. Sometimes we ask if this is the real America. Sometimes we watch our long shadows and doubt the future. But we have learned to emulate our ideals from these trials. We know there were men who came and stayed to build America. We know they came because there is something in America that they needed, and which needed them. We are the sufferers who suffer for natural love of man for another man, who commemorate the humanities of every man. We are the creators of abundance. We are the desires of anonymous men. We are the subways of suffering, the well of dignities. We are the living testament of a flowering race. But our march to freedom is not complete unless want is annihilated. The America we hope to see is not merely a physical but also a spiritual and an intellectual world. We are the mirror of what America is. If America wants us to be living and free, then we must be living and free. If we fail, then America fails. What do we want? We want complete security and peace. We want to share the promises and fruits of American life. We want to be free from fear and hunger. If you want to know what we are - we are marching!
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
spacejammie.bsky.social
And my shuffle has just blessed me with Will Smith, followed by Jamiroquai, and then Deee-Lite, so safe to say it’s also a dance party.
November 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
spacejammie.bsky.social
Making a lil Moon #SciArt tonight 🎵🌖 I have these metallic papers that must have some plastic in them, cut like a dream for complex topographies. Regular paper is super delicate to pull off the cutting mat. Though overall, this piece will be pretty small and simple compared to most of my others.
November 22, 2025 at 6:49 AM