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Astrophysics PhD Candidate ✨ studies black holes and galaxy evolution 🌌Science Communicator (find me other places at “Space According to Skylar”)
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This is what it looks like to hold Mars in one hand and the moon in the other 🤯 On the right (your pov) you see a lunar meteorite and Martian meteorite on the left 🔭🧪

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

If I see one more person fearmongering about the asteroid 2024 YR4 I’m gonna lose it. Y’all we discovered it less than two months ago, the next POSSIBLE impact would be Dec 2032. 🧪🔭 (1/3)

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

My dumbass cat was pawing under a closet door this morning and somehow got a claw hooked in the WALL and started screaming his head off at 6:20 in the morning so that’s how my day started I guess

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Why do chickens only make one noise? They can’t think outside the bawks

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Ngl it’s really hard to get excited about science when it feels like it’s under attack in this country right now 😢 I keep starting posts about “look at this pretty picture” or “here’s a fun fact” and I just can’t get the energy to finish them.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

I know everything is terrible so please enjoy this video of a group of coatis looking for food and then reacting when a dog walks by. I hope it makes your day 3% better

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Valentines Day! ❤️🧪Here have some nerdy 🛻🛻🛻🛻🛻: Is your name Andromeda? Because we are destined to collide 😘

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

New Astrobite is up! We’ve been getting a lot of cool results from the X-Ray telescope SRG-eROSITA lately, but what’s causing the emission? This paper challenges the most common interpretation… astrobites.org/2025/02/12/x... 🧪🔭

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Spot the difference 😤🔭

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I would say Happy International Day of Women in Girls in Science but I don’t know if we’re “allowed” to celebrate right now 🙄

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Aftermath of a Space X Starlink launch as seen from Tempe, AZ tonight

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

There’s a secret in this galaxy… Give it a little zoom and see if you can spot it! 🧵🧪🔭 (1/n) 📸 (full thread): ESA, Euclid, Euclid Consortium, JC Cuillandre, G Anselmi, T Li

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

Image 1: cat when Super Bowl is on. Image 2: cat when Arsenal v Man City is on. What can I say, man has taste

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Our moon is two-faced! The far side looks pretty strikingly different from the near…but why? 🧪🔭🧵 📸: NASA, GSFC, ASU The most defining features of the near side are the maria-dark lava plains covering more than 30% of the hemisphere. But they’re only seen on ~1% of the far side (1/n)

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

In today’s episode of holy smokes space is so cool check out this 10-year old Hubble image!!! This is Herbig-Haro 24, a region of newly formed stars who are doing some wild things to their environment… 🔭🧪 (1/n) 📸: NASA, STScI

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

The other day I asked a student what the chemical formula for water is. They said “H I J K L M N O” To which I said “um no…what?” And they were like “it’s H to O!” *ba dum tss*

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

Happy Caturday! He looks almost as fed up with everything as I feel

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments