I Never Met Her, But Did Meet Many Who Worked With Her.  She Was A Pioneer.

Whether you enjoy this or that, whether you love the new Star Wars or Star Trek or neither, always remember we’re all sci-fi lovers and always celebrate our inner kids who love thinking about the future. So have a great Christmas, holidays, or whatever you celebrate. In the end, we’re all on a “pale blue dot” zipping through the cosmos, hoping we don’t get creamed by an asteroid or some gamma burst.

Exciting Day!

Update your phones with our #CountdownToMars wallpapers, like this one, today: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/perseverance-mars-rover-wallpaper-images/

It's LANDING DAY for our Perseverance Mars Rover and her mission to search for ancient signs of life on the Red Planet!

Watch LIVE coverage today starting at 2:15pm ET (18:15 UTC):

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Can not agree more with this. Andor has been outstanding.

I feel qualified to say this because I too have been in this fight since I was 6 years old.

Andor continues to raise the bar every week. This production design is stunning. The acting is fantastic. No episode has felt like a filler episode. This week the main character did nothing but be in prison and yet it was intriguing. Mon Mothma’s story is gripping. This show deserves awards beyond the usual Star Wars Best Effects, Best Sound, etc. This show is a dramatic contender

ATTENTION Cyclone!!!

My Econ Professor’s name is… MARK COLLINS!!

HOLY SHIT I KNEW I SHOULDN’T HAVE TAKEN THIS CLASS!

How am I supposed to pay attention now?

Beautiful

Colonial Vipers “Battlestar Galactica”

So cool!

We Found the Universe’s First Type of Molecule

For decades, astronomers searched the cosmos for what is thought to be the first kind of molecule to have formed after the Big Bang. Now, it has finally been found. The molecule is called helium hydride. It’s made of a combination of hydrogen and helium. Astronomers think the molecule appeared more than 13 billion years ago and was the beginning step in the evolution of the universe. Only a few kinds of atoms existed when the universe was very young. Over time, the universe transformed from a primordial soup of simple molecules to the complex place it is today — filled with a seemingly infinite number of planets, stars and galaxies. Using SOFIA, the world’s largest airborne observatory, scientists observed newly formed helium hydride in a planetary nebula 3,000 light-years away. It was the first ever detection of the molecule in the modern universe. Learn more about the discovery:

Helium hydride is created when hydrogen and helium combine. 

Since the 1970s, scientists thought planetary nebula NGC 7027—a giant cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus—had the right environment for helium hydride to exist. 

But space telescopes could not pick out its chemical signal from a medley of molecules. 

Enter SOFIA, the world’s largest flying observatory! 

By pointing the aircraft’s 106-inch telescope at the planetary nebula and using a tool that works like a radio receiver to tune in to the “frequency” of helium hydride, similar to tuning a radio to a favorite station…

…the molecule’s chemical signal came through loud and clear, bringing a decades-long search to a happy end.

SOFIA is a modified Boeing 747SP aircraft that allows astronomers to study the solar system and beyond in ways that are not possible with ground-based telescopes. Find out more about the mission at www.nasa.gov/SOFIA

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A solar eclipse and the Milky  Way seen from the ISS

So glad my baby boy is coming back! ❤️

bring my boy back

Lovely art!

Would love to see Ezra come home. ❤️

Filoni, please, bring him back to his space mom ;-;

It was a routine meeting in the SGC.