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Jasmine 🌌🔭
@astro_jaz
🪐 utsa/swri physics phd student | ❄️ europa clipper grad affiliate | 🚀 nasa solar system ambassador | space news • photos • facts ↓ links
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    Jasmine 🌌🔭
    @astro_jaz
    Aug 10, 2024
    at age 10 i fell in love with space. and finally, at age 24, i have my first telescope.
    A photo of me smiling and standing next to my telescope.
    A close up photo of me smiling with my telescope.
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    Jasmine 🌌🔭
    @astro_jaz
    Oct 26, 2024
    since its release 10 years ago in october 2014, only an hour and 16 minutes have passed on miller’s planet in interstellar
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    Jasmine 🌌🔭
    @astro_jaz
    Jan 5, 2025
    the solution to light pollution is actually so simple
    A graphic showing four different types of street lights ranging from very bad (completely spherical and shining in the sky) to best (covered at the top and only shining on the ground), causing less light pollution.
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    Jasmine 🌌🔭
    @astro_jaz
    Sep 25, 2022
    Tomorrow, an incredibly rare, once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event is happening! Jupiter will be its closest to Earth since 1963! Along with opposition, it’ll be SO bright, you’ll be able to see its bands and some moons just with binoculars! This won’t happen again until 2129!
    Jupiter as seen by Hubble. Its bands and zones are clearly visible, seen as stripes running across the planet in shades of brown, white, and orange, and the Great Red Spot dominates the southern hemisphere and appears as a red dot in the image.
    A shot of Jupiter and 4 of its largest moons in a straight line labeled in order: “Ganymede, Io, Callisto, and Europa”. Jupiter appears in the center of these 4 moons, its large size making it the focal point of the image.
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    Jasmine 🌌🔭
    @astro_jaz
    Nov 19, 2022
    Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo in 1969, is the only human, dead or alive, that isn't in the frame of this picture.
    A photo showing the lunar module from the Apollo missions on the Moon with the Earth in the distance. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are inside the lunar lander.
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    Jasmine 🌌🔭
    @astro_jaz
    Jul 3, 2024
    the last time that every human was on earth was october 31, 2000. ever since then, we’ve always had at least one person in space. so if you were born after that date, you’ve never been on earth with everyone at once.
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    Jasmine 🌌🔭
    @astro_jaz
    Mar 31, 2025
    jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️
    The planet Jupiter with its cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue.
    Hubble's ultraviolet view of Jupiter shows the planet in hues of pink and blue.
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    Jasmine 🌌🔭
    @astro_jaz
    May 11, 2024
    friendly reminder that THIS is what the aurora looks like from space
    The glowing lights of the UK seen from space with the green aurora above it and several stars in the background of space.
    Earth’s aurora visible at night from the ISS. Many stars can be seen in the background.
    The green aurora can be seen above the Earth at night from the ISS. Many stars are visible in the background against the blackness of space.
    A bright green glowing aurora above the Earth as seen from the ISS. In the background of space, many stars can be seen.
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    Jasmine 🌌🔭
    @astro_jaz
    Sep 29, 2024
    HAPPY SECOND MOON DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
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    Pop Base
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    Sep 18, 2024
    Earth is set to temporarily obtain another moon on September 29th. The asteroid known as a ‘mini-moon’ is expected to make a single orbit journey around Earth, ending on November 25th.
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    Jasmine 🌌🔭
    @astro_jaz
    Jul 6, 2024
    i will never shut up about this movie
    A collage of scenes and shots from Interstellar including the truck going through the field, the rocket launching, Murph writing on the chalkboard, and the black hole Gargantua.
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    Jasmine 🌌🔭
    @astro_jaz
    Jun 27, 2024
    OH MY GOD!!! EARLY ANALYSIS OF THE SAMPLE FROM ASTEROID BENNU REVEALED ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS FOR LIFE AND ITS BELIEVED IT CAME FROM AN ANCIENT OCEAN WORLD!!! THIS IS SO AMAZING!!
    Asteroid Bennu sample.
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    Jasmine 🌌🔭
    @astro_jaz
    Oct 28, 2024
    and it’s not even close
    The famous pale blue dot image.
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    Time Capsule Tales
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    Oct 25, 2024
    In your opinion, what is the single greatest photograph in history?
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    Jasmine 🌌🔭
    @astro_jaz
    Jun 30, 2023
    we finally have JWST images of all of the gas giants!!!
    A wide field view showcases Jupiter in the upper right quadrant. The planet’s swirling horizontal stripes are rendered in blues, browns, and cream. Electric blue auroras glow above Jupiter’s north and south poles. A white glow emanates out from the auroras. Along the planet’s equator, rings glow in a faint white. These rings are one million times fainter than the planet itself! At the far left edge of the rings, a moon appears as a tiny white dot. This moon is only about 12 miles (20 km) across. Slightly further to the left, another moon, about 100 miles (150 km) across, glows with tiny white diffraction spikes. The rest of the image is the blackness of space, with faintly glowing white galaxies in the distance.
    The background is mostly dark. At the center is a dark orange-brown circle, surrounded by several blazing bright, thick, horizontal whiteish rings. This is Saturn and its rings. There are three tiny dots in the image—one to the upper left of the planet, one to the direct left of the planet, and the lower left of the planet. These are three of Saturn’s moons: Dione, Enceladus, and Tethys, respectively. There is a slightly darker tint at the northern and southern poles of the planet. The rings surrounding Saturn are mostly broad, with a few singular narrow gaps between the broader rings. There is an innermost, thicker ring, and next to that is a brighter, wider ring. Traveling farther outward, there is a small dark gap before another thicker ring. In the thicker ring, there is a narrow faint band. There is then an outermost, faintest, thinnest ring.
    The planet Uranus on a black background. The planet appears light blue with a large, white patch on the right side. On the edge of that patch at the upper left is a bright white spot. Another white spot is located on the left side of the planet at the 9 o’clock position. Around the planet is a system of nested rings. The outermost ring is the brightest while the innermost ring is the faintest. Unlike Saturn’s horizontal rings, the rings of Uranus are vertical and so they appear to surround the planet.
    In this Webb image, Neptune resembles a pearl with rings that look like ethereal concentric ovals around it. There are 2 thinner, crisper rings and 2 broader, fainter rings. A few extremely bright patches on the lower half of Neptune represent methane ice clouds. Six tiny white dots, which are six of Neptune’s 14 moons, are scattered among the rings. The background of the image is black.
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    Jasmine 🌌🔭
    @astro_jaz
    Sep 25, 2022
    Tomorrow, NASA is making history by intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to deflect it, testing a method of planetary defense (should an asteroid pose a major threat to Earth). DART will crash into Dimorphos, (moonlet of Didymos), which poses no harm to us.