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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

SN 2026aaiv in the galaxy NGC 7331 🔭 I took this pic last night

Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

At the Ad ASTRA Workshop this week 🔭 So much interesting science being discussed on the next generation of NASA missions 😃

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In one week, there will be a Lunar Eclipse (nearly total) 🔭 Date: Night of August 27. See times across the US below Happy Stargazing! 🤩

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Venus and the Moon during sunset yesterday 🔭 Gorgeous 😍

A crescent Moon and a bright Venus hang in the sky right after sunset.

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Partial solar eclipse from Ithaca NY 🔭 Beautiful 😁

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My Moon picture tonight on International Moon Day! 🔭 Taken through my 8" Dobsonian telescope (that I've had since I was 13 years old) ☺️ Location: Ithaca, NY

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

⭐Another new paper! ⭐🔭 Proud Advisor Moment 🤗 Skylar, my PhD student, just had their first PhD paper accepted for publication! They did a fantastic job 😀 We update the orbit of the sub-Neptune pi Men c and find evidence of another planet 👀 Paper here for free: arxiv.org/abs/2607.12088

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TESS Photometry and Radial Velocity Analysis of the sub-Neptune Exoplanet π Mensae c and the Wider π Mensae Planetary System

Exoplanet characterization relies on precise measurements of planetary orbital and physical parameters. This is particularly important for planetary dynamics and atmospheric evolution, as orbital para...

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

⭐ Paper Day 🔭 We have a new possible radio detection on another hot Jupiter! 📡 'Tentative detection of circularly polarized bursty radio emissions from the HD 189733 exoplanetary system using NenuFAR beamformed observations' Paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2607.08910 @carlsaganinstitute.bsky.social 🧵👇

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Erin M. May, PhD @astronomay.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"More Planets, Always Better" - @jjfplanet.bsky.social , 2026 #Exoplanets6 #Exo6

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 30/06/2026

The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here… On June 29, 2026, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially began the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)! 🔭🧪☄️🌌 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/action-...

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The FOMO is real! 😥 I will be missing the Exoplanets 6 conference in Porto, Portugal this year I will be living vigorously through all your posts 🙏 #Exoplanets6 #Exo6

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Little Pills

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Tonight, Diana (my PhD student) & I are observing on the Allen Telescope Array! 🔭 We are searching for signs of technology (technosignatures) from a transiting Earth-like planet in the habitable zone 👽📡 Even cooler, the exoplanet has seen Earth transit in the past 👀 @carlsaganinstitute.bsky.social

The radio dishes of the Allen Telescope Array

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

⭐ Open House Tonight 👀 Furetes Observatory at Cornell University will be open from 8pm - midnight Venus and Jupiter will be gorgeous 🪐🥰 @cornellastrosociety.org

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Auroras (aka Northern Lights) might be visible tonight! 🔭 The best time to view will be before midnight (bright Moon rises after that) Best of luck and clear skies! 😊

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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Ramona has become a big space fan. Welcome home, Artemis II. What an incredible quest.

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NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

#Artemis II - A beautiful new image released The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a the solar eclipse. Captured by one of the cameras on Orion’s solar array wings. A bright spot visible below the Moon’s right edge is Saturn. Then a bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. 🚀🌓🌒

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." Isaac Asimov

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth." Astronaut Bill Anders (Apollo 8) Earthset from Artemis II 😮😭 Source: NASA images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation. Source: NASA

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"We will explore. We will build. We will build ships. We will visit again. We will construct science outposts. We will drive rovers. We will do radio astronomy." Christina Koch 🔭 That's right, we are going to do radio astronomy from the Moon!! 📡 🌒 Learn more 🧵👇 (1/6)

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This is an excellent view of the dichotomy of the moment Space can inspire us to be better to each other & fight for justice

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the-astro-stud @the-astro-stud.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

New over here so introducing myself with some commentary on Artemis II!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"We will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other." Mission specialist Christina Koch I'm not crying, you are 😭

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Artemis II is on its journey back home!!!

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Artemis II will reach a distance of about 252,756 miles from Earth, the farthest from home any human has traveled 🤯

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 06/04/2026

finished this right as the astronauts went behind the Moon 🥹 #SciArt

4x4” acrylic painting of the Moon from the Artemis mission. Some of the far side is visible including Orientale Basin

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

We have lost the signal from Artemis II as they enter the farside of the Moon 🫡 See you in 40 mins 🙏

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Key lunar flyby times, milestones All times in Eastern Time

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Danny Robb @inverting-vision.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

To get ready for Artemis II's encounter with the Moon, I put together a visual history of lunar far side exploration. It's mostly images and maps, meant partly as an introduction to identifying a few prominent far side features. 🗃️🔭 invertingvision.com/2026/04/06/e...

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Exploring the Far Side of the Moon: A Visual History

Lunar exploration has always held a strange position in the history of exploration. For all of human history, people have been staring up at the Moon, and for centuries astronomer used telescopes t…

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 06/04/2026

Everyone. This is the one. This is the one we should build our giant radio telescope in. I don't know what it is called, but I think we should reserve this one for the lunar radio telescope. 📡 📸 NASA

The Orion spacecraft on the left and in the distance is the Moon, half illuminated. Towards its centre is a circular crater annotated with an arrow pointing towards it.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

We need to make sure the far side is protected from radio interference or we'll lose the ability to do radioastronomy from the Moon. Future lunar industry has to be regulated to prevent this. 🧪 #ArtemisII

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/04/2026

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 03/04/2026