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Cappy Bunn ☀️ @astrobunn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy Pride Month! 🌈☀️ Here’s the Sun today, blended between: ❤️ AIA 304 Å 🧡 AIA 193 Å 💛 AIA 171 Å 💚 AIA 94 Å 🩵 AIA 131 Å 💙 AIA 335 Å 💜 AIA 211 Å #pridemonth #NASA #heliophysics #sun #sunscience #lgbtqia

Image of the Sun blended from different AIA wavelength channels in rainbow order.

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Cappy Bunn ☀️ @astrobunn.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy First Contact Day from Bozeman, MT (where it is now an official city holiday)! 🖖 Ad astra! ✨

Three smiling people in starfleet uniforms standing in a mock up Star Trek transporter.

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Cappy Bunn ☀️ @astrobunn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

An anomaly occurred with the spacecraft while observing AR 14392… Fastest IRIS raster ever! ☀️😅 #solarphysics #sunscience #spaceweather #instrumentation #anomaly #sun

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Cappy Bunn ☀️ @astrobunn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Just finished directing a Sun-observing satellite and now we’re gonna go watch Project Hail Mary! 🚀☀️🪨

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Cappy Bunn ☀️ @astrobunn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Aurora from Bozeman, MT on 11/11! Very bright around 6:45 PM MST, then picked back up around 10 PM. ☀️💜💚 #aurora #spaceweather #sunscience #heliophysics

Red and green aurora over the Bridger mountain range.

Pink, purple, red, and green aurora over the Bridger mountain range.

Columns of pale green aurora and diffuse red and pink aurora over the Bridger mountain range.

Pale green and blue columns of aurora and diffuse purple and pink aurora over the Bridger mountain range.

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Cappy Bunn ☀️ @astrobunn.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

#JWST observing a #blackhole at record-breaking resolution. ⚫️🔭 Happy #Halloween! 🎃 #NASA #ESA #CSA

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Cappy Bunn ☀️ @astrobunn.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Me: *lamenting that I haven’t caught any amazing flares with the IRIS satellite lately* My fiancé who’s been directing that satellite a lot longer than me: “You sweet solar maximum child.” #heliophysics #sunscience #solarphysics

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Cappy Bunn ☀️ @astrobunn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Enjoying all the daylight here in Alaska for #AAS246! ☀️ I’ll be giving my first SPD talk on Wednesday! I also came prepared with a PUNCH lanyard and fun pins! 🚀🛰️ #heliophysics

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Cappy Bunn ☀️ @astrobunn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

It’s easy to say “yes” to the dress when it’s made from the space-flown parachute that carried my experiment safely back to Earth! 🚀☀️ Designers found, docs signed, payment sent — I’m officially getting my dream wedding gown made from material that’s been to space!!! 🪂👰🏼‍♀️✨

A half-ton sounding rocket payload after landing in the desert down range at White Sands Missile Range. Attached is a bright orange-red and white parachute.

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Cappy Bunn ☀️ @astrobunn.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Caught some awesome solar limb activity with the IRIS satellite! 🤩☀️🛰️ (AR13998) #heliophysics #sunscience #LMSAL

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Cappy Bunn ☀️ @astrobunn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Happened to point IRIS at active region 13993 on my sister's birthday (born in '93) and caught some fun eruptions! @roytsmart.bsky.social and I worked on a custom color map of her fav colors and turned it into a bday card! #heliophysics #sunscience

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Cappy Bunn ☀️ @astrobunn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The Moon is sneaking into IRIS’s solar observations this Friday! 🌑🛰️ I’m directing the Sun-observing IRIS satellite this week, and we’re aiming to catch a grazing event as the Moon briefly photobombs our view of the Sun. ☀️📸👀 #sunscience #heliophysics #lunarphotobomb

Plot of predicted positions of the Sun and Moon as viewed by the IRIS satellite with emojis of the Sun and Moon laid over top of their positions.

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Cappy Bunn ☀️ @astrobunn.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day, Sol-mate! ☀️☺️ This heart-shaped CME was captured last year, but it’s too cute to not share again! #valentinesday #heliophysics #sunscience #NASAValentines

A heart-shaped coronal mass ejection from the Sun, with the text “Happy Valentine’s Day, Sol-mate!”

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Cappy Bunn ☀️ @astrobunn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Howdy, 🦋! I’m Cappy—an art major turned physicist working on my PhD! I study solar and stellar atmospheres in VUV using data from space-based telescopes, and I build solar telescopes that launch on sounding rockets. 🚀☀️ #instrumentation #sunscience #heliophysics When I’m not sungazing, I like to…

Person leaning against a sounding rocket payload that is bolted vertically to a spin balance table.

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Cappy Bunn ☀️ @astrobunn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

My Grandpa Wiley and I both pointing out dents in our rockets. 🚀 …and both holding the hard hat that Grandma Margaret painted for him! #nasa #msfc #wsmr #sunscience

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Cappy Bunn ☀️ @astrobunn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The launch of FURST! This is the suborbital sounding rocket I’ve been working on for the past 5 years. It’s meant to observe the VUV spectrum of the Sun as a star! 🚀☀️✨

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