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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Just in time for the solar eclipse in Europe on Wednesday, here is our first video in our “Inside the Sun” series: youtu.be/UH_acdLovGg?...

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Inside the Sun: The Mystery of the Magnetic Field Behind its Corona (NASA-Funded Research)

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I'm teaching my Cultural Astronomy class again online: 5/26-7/2! We examine expressions of astronomy across the globe and throughout history, gaining an appreciation for how astronomical phenomena influence culture & how culture influences astronomical study. classes.berkeley.edu/.../2026-sum....

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Our latest video about the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory reveals how the mission will build our understanding of ways that planets can lose their water to space, and for how long an Earth-like planet might be habitable. youtu.be/6MU3ra9Sr4s?...

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How Earth Loses Water to Space: Inside NASA’s Carruthers Mission & the Exosphere

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Check out our new video about how NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will help us understand space weather better: youtu.be/BAmJaVXGmA0?...

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Why Scientists Study Space Weather: The Science Objectives of NASA’s Carruthers Mission

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/01/2026

Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

On its birthday, share one image from your favorite #TNG episode.

Picard playing an end-blown flute in his darkened quarters on the Enterprise in his duty uniform.

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NOAA @noaa.gov · 17/09/2025

Countdown to launch: NOAA’s #SWFOL1 #Satellite #Observatory Safeguarding society, a million miles from home ... Scheduled for September 23, 2025, from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. --> Bookmark: noaa.gov/SWFOL1

An artist's rendering of NOAA's SWFO-L1 satellite in space orbit next to a image of the sun producing a coronal mass ejection. Earth is seen in the far distance. Image credit: NOAA Satellites.

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Space Sciences Laboratory @ucbssl.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Big thank you to Lara Waldrop for the talk at SSL. Lara leads the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory. It will orbit the Sun to capture UV images of Earth’s exosphere. SSL built many of the instruments and will contribute to the research and operate the spacecraft.

Lara Waldrop PhD of the University of Illinois at UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory.

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will launch next month! Check out our latest video about the mission profiling its leader, Dr. Lara Waldrop. youtu.be/T4AVeVz9GwM?...

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Meet Dr. Lara Waldrop: NASA Scientist Leading a Deep Space Mission to Study Earth’s Outer Atmosphere

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is preparing to launch this fall. This exciting new mission will journey a million miles from home to study Earth’s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere. We’re premiering a new video about the mission on YouTube today. youtu.be/UUL8z4vWSGI?...

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NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Mission Will Reveal Earth’s Invisible Halo from Space

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I honestly can’t stop thinking about this RFK speech. A lot of the outrage around it is focused on pointing out that it’s not true. But so fucking what if it was? Do people whose bodies don’t work not deserve to exist in society? If all these things were true for a person are they less worthy?

"These are kids who will never pay taxes," Kennedy declared. "They'll never hold a job. They'll never play baseball. They'll never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted. We have to recognize we are doing this to our children."

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I will say to you what I say to my students. We know the climate is changing, we know why it is changing and that we are the cause, we know what we need to do. We. Just. Need. To. Do. It. (3/)

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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

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Bryan Mendez @doctorstarlight.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I was honored to speak at the Stand Up for Science March in Berkeley yesterday. The text of my remarks is in the photos. I hope this momentum continues. Let there be light.

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