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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Poor Bucky. His arms must be so tired. He is not used to doing that many pushups. #Badgers

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

These might be the most right-angled #clouds I’ve ever seen.

Wispy cirrus clouds that bend sharply downward on the right side like an elbow.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

HEADS UP! ☄️ A small asteroid will impact Earth near Australia today earthsky.org/space/small-...

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Small asteroid impact likely today near Australia

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The hill I’ll die on is blanketed in tall grass and when the rattlesnake bites me, my husband says, “I think that snake was poisonous,” and then I lecture him that “It’s only poisonous if I bite something toxic, if something toxic bites me, it’s venomous,” until my vision goes black.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Flip side is back when I told my 3 yo “It’s the last day of the year!” He repeated my words but with terror is his voice. (I quickly reassured him that tomorrow was the first day of the new year.)

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

No woman. I’m immediately less interested in this mission.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Did you know the biggest supervolcanoes to ever erupt in the U.S. were in Colorado and on the Utah/Nevada state line? earthsky.org/earth/bigges...

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The biggest US supervolcanoes you’ve never heard of

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Me, as I walk into someone’s house for the first time: “Where’s your cat?”

Woman holding cat; they are gazing lovingly at each other.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Why does Saturn's moon Hyperion give me the heebie-jeebies? I don't like it. I don't like it... 😵‍💫

A lumpy, potato-shaped moon that has many craters and looks kinda hollow, like sea coral.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Saw a beautiful sun halo today while hiking near Phoenix.

A saguaro cactus with a green desert and behind is blue sky, white thin clouds and a sun halo (circular rainbow).

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Aurora / northern lights tonight are rivaling the best I’ve ever seen. This was during the 7:00 pm hour from southern Wisconsin 🔭

Green blobs and red streamers in the night sky.

Bright green blob plus red curtains of Aurora.

Red curtains and a green glow below of Aurora.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Seeing some colorful northern lights right now from near Madison, Wisconsin. #aurora 🔭

Greens and reds with a bright pillar of Aurora.

Pink, purple and green aurora with some lit houses

Purple and red with green below in a dark sky.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Curious to know what we’ll learn about that Mars rock in this press conference that we didn’t already know…

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I’m jealous of all of you who saw the strange spiral in the night sky last night. Here are some images and an explanation of what it was. 🔭 earthsky.org/space/strang...

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Strange spiral in the night sky was a rocket fuel dump

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

All of us bringing tiny bits of the lost trees into our lungs. A walking gravesite. Literally carrying the death of the forest around in us.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

A tornado hit my mom’s street today. You can hear the fear in her voice. My parents were fine, though! #wiwx #tornado

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I was golfing horribly last week and then something put it all in perspective to show me that things could be worse. (When you see it…) #golf

A golf green with many gravestones in the background.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Another day of storms in Wisconsin. Plus fireflies. #wiwx

Storm clouds with ragged base and lighter blue background.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I love this spiral galaxy that looks like a golfer. Which galaxy in Vera Rubin’s Sky Viewer is your fave? 🔭

Many small galaxies on black background with central spiral having extensions that look like legs and swirling motion above the core.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The hue of tonight’s Strawberry Moon is courtesy of Canadian wildfires. It’s low on the southern horizon all night. Lowest moon in decades. 🔭

Some houses with lights glowing and a reddish moon not far above.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I had ChatGPT make my sister’s cat into a person.

Big fluffy orange cat sitting on a ledge.

Person with wild orange hair and orange sweater poised on a ledge.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

“Let’s do this!” I hollered and then proceeded to not, in fact, do it.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Quote post with a picture you took in a national park. Glacier National Park, Montana, summer of 2024.

View of reddish rocks looking down at blue lake with white ice and serrated tall rocky ridge on one end.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Visiting the Mall of Mexico in the Twin Cities today.

A woman stand in front of the sign for Mall of America and holds the word Mexico in front of the word America.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Last week it was 1-in-83 odds. Yesterday it was 1-in-53 odds. And today it’s down to 1-in-43 odds. Let’s go!!! 🔭 🌎☄️ Asteroid 2024 YR4 chance of hitting Earth up to 1 in 43 earthsky.org/space/astero...

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 chance of hitting Earth up to 1 in 43

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

What if Bennu hit Earth? Simulations suggest catastrophe 🔭 (Yet why do I find it a pleasant daydream?) earthsky.org/space/what-i...

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What if Bennu hit Earth? Simulations suggest catastrophe

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Wordle 1,324 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I have waited years for this day. Time to think of a new starting word!

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

“The announcement came during a press conference Saturday morning, August 24, 2024. … Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are now scheduled to return to Earth in February 2025 aboard the SpaceX Dragon 9 crew capsule.” Don’t allow them to gaslight you. 🔭 earthsky.org/spaceflight/...

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Ailing Starliner spacecraft returns to Earth sans crew

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

New asteroid is a 3 on the Torino scale. And it might stay there for a while… ☄️🔭 earthsky.org/space/astero...

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 has non-zero odds of hitting Earth

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Ever since visiting the southernmost point in the continental US, I’ve wanted to visit the actual southernmost point in the US. This month I was able to do just that. youtube.com/watch?v=0vcC...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/01/2025

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

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Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect

Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Remember the mini-moon we had last fall? Turns out it likely really was a mini piece of the moon ejected during a past impact. 🔭 earthsky.org/space/earth-...

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Earth’s asteroid mini-moon a chunk of the moon?

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raeshandalias.bsky.social @raeshandalias.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Just in case you were wondering! Lock in!

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Saturday’s sunset from the southernmost point in the U.S. 🌎 #KaLae #Hawaii

Water with an orange sun and streaks of clouds in front.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I saw my first fogbow! And then I saw another one! Haleakala is a special place. ❤️🌋

White rainbow and the shadow of a person.

White rainbow and a lady who looks really thrilled under it.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Sun halo today with a glimpse of the circumzenithal arc at the very top. 🔭 One of the good things to come out of cold winter days. ❤️☀️❄️

A floral pen held up to block the sun, and a rainbow circle around it with a small rainbow arc separated at top.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

We got ourselves a G4 geomagnetic storm at the moment with a Kp8. Quite a bang to start the new year! 🔭 Of course it’s daylight and cloudy where I live so… 🤷‍♀️

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

2024 was an incredible year for stargazers. 🔭

A comet above a house and through one cloud.

A sun in almost total eclipse through clouds.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I read and listened to 111 books this year. Some 5 star reads in that stack. #booksky

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ceddanne rafaela enjoyer 🧦⚽️🦅 @stylo.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

this is teaching me that a lot of yall need to look at the stars more. the bright light to the w/sw after sunset is venus. jupiter is currently hanging out somewhere near the moon. you can see orion pretty much every night. castor and pollux are really bright also.

EarthSky.com sky guide for December 14/15

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BNO News @bnonews.com · 14/12/2024

Some of the "drones" in former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan's video were found to be stars in the constellation Orion - NYT

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Saddened to learn that Laurie Allen Klein, the illustrator of my children’s picture book Solar System Forecast, recently died of lung cancer. She was a fantastic, prolific artist: www.goodreads.com/author/list/...

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Books by Laurie Allen Klein (Author of Out to Pasture)

Laurie Allen Klein has 46 books on Goodreads with 3583 ratings. Laurie Allen Klein’s most popular book is Out to Pasture: But Not over the Hill (Fairacre...

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Four times in the past week Daichi Fujii has caught meteors hitting the moon. Could these be Geminids? 🔭 earthsky.org/space/are-ge...

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Are Geminid meteors striking the moon? See videos

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Check out these jaw-dropping southern and northern lights images. #aurora 🔭 earthsky.org/todays-image...

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See the best northern lights photos of 2024

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Circumzenithal arc … achievement unlocked! 🔓 Every time I see a sun dog I look above the sun for the circumzenithal arc, and I finally spotted one!

Sunset lower center, sun dog at left, upside down rainbow high above.

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Kelly Kizer Whitt @astronomommy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

☄️🚨‼️Incoming! For only the 11th time ever (and 4th time this year) we’ve spotted an asteroid before it hits Earth. 🔭

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