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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 2h

i know i’m not, but i genuinely feel like I’m behind in life.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 2h

apollo 17 (1972) | artemis ii (2026)

Apollo 17 Lunar Module Challenger on the Moon, with its gold and silver foil-covered structure filling the lower left of the frame. A small, partially illuminated Earth hangs in the black sky above it.

NASA’s Orion spacecraft during Artemis II, seen from a camera on one of its solar array wings. Part of the spacecraft and propulsion hardware fills the left side of the image, while a bright crescent Earth appears against the blackness of space on the right.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 9h

on this day in 1958, nasa officially launched operations!! since then, its sent man to the moon, sent spacecraft beyond our home planet, sent robots to the surface of mars, and there’s still so much more to come. space science is important and worth funding.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 23h

This is a cool photo of Venus! Photographed through the rings of Saturn.

A complex, curving pattern of lines that make up Saturn's vast ring system, in various gold and grey hues. The white arc at right is the limb of the planet itself. A tiny point of light is just upper right of centre.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

maybe stars are there to remind us that darkness isn’t the end of the story

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

HUBBLE VS. JWST!!! 🌌 these are images of the SAME galaxy cluster taken more than a decade apart. look at how many more galaxies webb reveals… THIS IS INSANE 😭

$A Hubble Space Telescope view of galaxy cluster MACS J0454.1-0300. Against a mostly black background, dozens of small yellow, white, and bluish galaxies are scattered across the field, with a few bright foreground stars showing diffraction spikes.$ $A James Webb Space Telescope view of the same galaxy cluster, packed with hundreds of galaxies in white, gold, orange, and blue. Bright foreground stars have prominent diffraction spikes, while stretched orange arcs and distorted galaxy shapes reveal gravitational lensing around the cluster.$

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

thanks for letting me inspire some of you out there to reach for the stars.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

all i know is that no matter what happens, I WILL get a phd. i WILL have doctor in front of my name. i WILL work in astrobiology trying to find/understand habitable worlds. i WILL make my younger self proud.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

trying to remind myself that things not working out the way i originally planned might be a blessing in disguise, but it’s HARD when it seems like i worked so hard and failed. i can’t help but blame myself. i need prayers from everyone, and any advice on failure and setbacks.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW JWST IMAGE SHOWING GRAVITATIONAL LENSING!! 🌌 gravity bends and magnifies light from galaxies behind massive objects, sometimes making the same galaxy appear over 4 times! jwst found this happening TWICE in one cluster, for the first time!

A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the center. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's center; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in color; bright, nearby stars are the same color.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

stars don’t stop being beautiful even when they’re falling apart

This image of the Ring Nebula appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements.

A vivid Hubble image of the Cat’s Eye Nebula, showing a bright blue-green central region surrounded by intricate concentric shells, loops, and wisps of glowing gas in turquoise, pink, and orange. The layered structure gives the nebula a complex, almost eye-like appearance.

Webb’s view of the Southern Ring Nebula appears as a misshapen oval that is slightly angled from the top left to the bottom right. The image shows one star at the center. A large translucent pink-and-red irregular oval surrounds the central stars.

A Hubble image of the Butterfly Nebula, with two enormous wing-shaped lobes of glowing gas extending outward from a bright central star. The lobes are filled with fiery orange, red, pink, and blue clouds, while a dark band of dust cuts through the center.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

THE EARTH AND MOON TODAY SEEN BY JUICE ON ITS FLYBY!!

Earth seen from space, bright blue and white against the blackness, with swirling cloud systems and part of the JUICE spacecraft visible in shadow along the left side of the frame.

A thin crescent Moon illuminated along its left side, revealing craters and rugged surface detail while the rest fades into darkness against a black background.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

would you want to stand on the surface of mars?

A hazy, yellow-tinted view of the Martian landscape captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover. Rocky terrain fills the foreground, while layered hills fade into a thick dusty atmosphere in the distance, giving the scene a soft, almost sepia-toned appearance.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes, this is a real image of jupiter, the universe is an artist

Enhanced-color image of Jupiter from NASA’s Juno spacecraft, showing the planet’s curved edge against black space. Jupiter’s atmosphere is filled with intricate swirling clouds and storms in deep blue, brown, orange, cream, and white, with several bright oval storms scattered across the scene. The turbulent cloud patterns resemble brushstrokes in a painting, especially around the darker blue south polar region.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this might look like a picture of some random rocks, but it’s actually one of the last images of asteroid dimorphos taken by the dart spacecraft just seconds before it crashed into it!!!

Close-up black-and-white image of the rocky surface of asteroid Dimorphos, covered in jagged boulders and smaller debris. The image was captured by NASA’s DART spacecraft during its final approach, just seconds before it intentionally collided with the asteroid.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

wow, look at that pretty snow!! nope, it’s the surface of a COMET!

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

HUGE astrobiology news!!!! 🦠 researchers found an amoeba that broke the heat record for complex life!!! it’s the first-known eukaryote that’s able to reproduce at 145°F (63°C), which is hotter than we thought complex cells could withstand!! THIS COULD HELP US WHEN SEARCHING FOR HABITABLE WORLDS!

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

IT’S NOVA’S 2ND BIRTHDAY!! EVERYONE WISH MY SON A HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

A picture of me holding my black cat Nova and smiling

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

OH MY GOD THEY SENT PIKACHU TO SPACE!!!!

A Pikachu plushie in a space suit in the ISS cupola with Earth in the background.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i was today years old when i found out that the iconic pale blue dot image was taken on valentine’s day somehow that adds way more meaning to the picture 🥺

The iconic ‘Pale Blue Dot’ photograph taken by Voyager 1, with Earth appearing as a tiny point of light inside a pale vertical sunbeam against the dark expanse of space.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

wow. i can’t believe pictures like this actually exist. our planet and the universe we live in are so beautiful. 📸: don pettit

A long-exposure view from orbit showing the Milky Way stretching vertically across a densely star-filled sky above Earth’s curved horizon. A thin reddish atmospheric glow sits above a bright green band of airglow, while blurred city lights and streaks of light sweep across the dark surface below.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

my favorite moon pics i’ve taken in honor of international observe the moon night

The Blood Moon viewed through my telescope

The Full Moon bright in the daytime sky above the trees

The silhouette of an airplane crossing the Moon

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

in honor of international observe the moon night, show me your favorite moon pic you’ve taken

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

WISHING EVERYONE A CLOUD-FREE SKY TONIGHT TO SEE THE MOON AND CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL OBSERVE THE MOON NIGHT!!

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the moon is so pretty that we have an entire night dedicated to the whole world looking up at her 🥹🌙 happy international observe the moon night!!

A close-up of the Moon’s heavily cratered surface

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

TOOK THIS PHOTO OF THE MOON THROUGH THE CLOUDS TONIGHT!!! SHE LOOKS SO SPOOKY AND ETHEREAL!

Close-up telescopic view of a waxing gibbous Moon against a dark gray sky. The lunar surface is bright and highly detailed, with visible craters, darker maria, and rugged terrain along the shadowed right edge. A soft glow surrounds the Moon, giving the image a slightly hazy, atmospheric look.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

tomorrow is international observe the moon night!!!

A full moon glows in the dark night sky beside NASA’s Artemis II Space Launch System rocket on the launch pad, with the illuminated launch tower rising along the right side of the image.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

human ashes photographed a microscope vs a stellar nursery over a thousand light-years away we are literally stardust 🌌

A microscopic image of human cremains appearing as soft, cloud-like forms in shades of blue, teal, purple, and gray. Small glowing points and circular patterns are scattered throughout, giving the image a striking resemblance to a colorful nebula in space.

$A James Webb Space Telescope image of a star-forming region filled with glowing clouds of gas and dust in blue, white, orange, and red. Bright stars with prominent diffraction spikes shine across the scene, surrounded by wispy, luminous structures and dark patches of interstellar material.$

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

remembering this insane picture from artemis ii that looks like an eye

Close-up view of a spacecraft window reflecting a star-filled sky. Dozens of stars are visible against the dark background, framed by bright curved reflections along the window’s glass.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

these are cliffs on a comet that we landed a spacecraft on btw

Black-and-white view from the surface of a comet, showing rugged, dusty terrain in the foreground and a massive dark cliff-like wall rising across the upper half of the image. Bright, sunlit ridges and rocks contrast sharply with deep shadows.

High-contrast black-and-white view of a comet’s rugged surface, with a towering, steep cliff on the right and a narrow, shadowed valley below. Jagged rock formations and scattered debris are illuminated against the blackness of space.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

if roman’s first test image was that good, we’re in for a TREAT in early 2027 when its first real images are released!!!!

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ROMAN’S FIRST TEST IMAGE IS HERE!!!

This test image captures the very first photons of starlight to reach the Wide Field Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It was taken as an initial performance assessment with the detector array still stowed as it was for launch, far from best focus. Roman’s primary science instrument has opened its eyes to the universe for the first time, revealing a sea of out-of-focus stars, each spread out over many thousands of pixels. The image, which zooms into one detector and zooms again to a single star in the insets, offers a baseline the Roman team will work from to align the telescope’s optics and tune the focus. The team will soon activate the instrument’s fine-guidance system, which will mean Roman can lock onto targets. They’ll also focus the observatory, which will shrink each star’s light to appear as a crisp point, rather than the broad, donut-like features seen here (which appear as expected given the instrument’s present configuration).

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

WAKE UP BABE, NEW JWST IMAGE DROPPED!!!!

A star-forming region. The left two thirds of the image is blanketed in thick clouds of green and yellow gas and dust that form swirling patterns. Some of the gas is spread into thin, thready wisps. The right third of the image is the black background speckled with stars and multi-colored dots that represent distant galaxies. Bright stars are scattered throughout the clouds, with the densest cluster situated in the center of the scene. Each is crowned with six long spikes and two shorter spikes created by the optics of the telescope’s mirrors.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

what would you name a mission to uranus?

Uranus appears as a pale blue-green sphere against a black background, with a smooth, nearly featureless atmosphere and subtle shading along the edges.

$A JWST image of Uranus surrounded by its bright, narrow rings, set against a dark field filled with distant galaxies and several foreground stars marked by prominent diffraction spikes.$

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

why is no one talking about the whole “the moon is considered a us territory” thing 😭 this shit is so weird

Donald Trump Truth Social post with a graphic of the Earth and Moon with text over it reading “The moon is ours 🇺🇸”

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

the 9/11 attacks seen from space. absolutely heartbreaking.

View of New York City and surrounding region as seen from the International Space Station on September 11, 2001. From the site of the Twin Towers a trail of smoke proceeds toward the south following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

part of me wishes i lived in an area with low light pollution so anytime i’m sad i could just go outside and do this for a few hours

A person sitting down with their arms on their knees looking up at a very starry night sky.

A person’s silhouette looking up at a starry night sky with the Milky Way faintly streaking across it.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

does anyone else feel like this picture of jupiter all the time

Close-up view of Jupiter from NASA’s Juno spacecraft, showing swirling cream, brown, and gray clouds and several large storms. The arrangement of an elongated brown storm and two bright circular storms gives the planet an amusing face-like appearance, resembling eyes and a crooked smile.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

when my problems threaten to consume me, i remember how small we are.

Earth and the Moon floating far apart against an otherwise completely black expanse of space. Earth appears as a small blue-and-white half-lit world in the lower left, while the much smaller Moon appears as a gray-white crescent in the upper right.

A nearly black star field photographed from deep space. Earth and the Moon appear together near the center as two tiny bright points of light, almost indistinguishable from the surrounding stars.

View from the surface of Mars showing a dark, rocky horizon beneath a vast gray evening sky. Earth appears as an extremely tiny point of light above the horizon, marked with an arrow and the word “Earth.”

View from near Saturn showing part of Saturn and its sweeping rings across the top of the image. Far below the rings, Earth appears as a tiny pale blue dot in the immense darkness of space, marked by a small white arrow.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this picture is still one of my favorites from the artemis missions. it’s just so beautiful and perfectly framed.

NASA’s Orion spacecraft flies past the Moon, with part of its white exterior and solar array visible in the foreground. The Moon’s heavily cratered surface fills much of the frame, while a small blue-and-white crescent Earth appears in the distance against the blackness of space.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

as most of you may know, i’ve been struggling with a lot personally lately. on top of that, i had to use my savings to pay for rent. it’s been really hard. if you can spare anything, it would mean the world to me, or just share. v e n m o: astrojaz p a y p a l: www.paypal.me/Spacequeenjaz