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Katrina Miller

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physicist by training, reporter by trade writer by nature 📍chicago tips: katrina.miller@nytimes.com signal: katrinamiller.04 katrinamillerphd.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/09/2026
More than 300 million birds are expected to soar across the U.S. on Saturday during their annual fall migration, prompting requests for residents to turn off or dim lights to help ensure their safe flight.
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As Millions of Birds Migrate, Residents Are Asked to Turn Off the Lights
Birds are drawn to lights, and more than a billion die each year after crashing into buildings, experts said.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/09/2026
In the wake of Lindsay Clancy's trial, support organizations and reproductive health psychiatrists said more patients have reached out, expressing fears that their own symptoms could spiral.
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Lindsay Clancy’s Trial Prompts Patients and Doctors to Rethink Postpartum Care
Requests for advice from women with maternal mental health conditions, as well as health providers who care for them, have surged.
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Lyndie Chiou @lyndie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A sole dark matter particle has *possibly* been detected with parameters that match more exotic dark matter theories. I wrote about those theories for Quanta: www.quantamagazine.org/dogged-dark-... #physics #science 👩‍🔬🔭
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Dogged Dark Matter Hunters Find New Hiding Places to Check | Quanta Magazine
Perhaps dark matter is made of an entirely different kind of particle than the ones physicists have been searching for. New experiments are springing up to look for these ultra-lightweight phantoms.
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
an eclipse, 100th anniversary of stellafane, roman telescope launch, potential dark matter event - whew! what a month for space reporters
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Dark matter has eluded capture for decades. Did it just leave a trace? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/s...
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Scientists Hunting Dark Matter Found Something Strange (Gift Article)
A lone signal from an experiment in South Dakota doesn’t fit the profile of any other known particles, physicists say.
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
On Sunday morning, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope blasted off from the Florida coastline & sailed toward the stars. So begins its journey to capture deep, sweeping cosmic views to explore the dark universe & hunt for new worlds. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/s...
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope’s Roman Telescope Leaves Earth to Chart the Stars (Gift Article)
Astronomers will use data collected by Roman’s wide, deep gaze to study the dark universe and hunt for new worlds.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Here's what to know about Wednesday's total solar eclipse. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/s...
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Get Ready for Europe’s First Total Solar Eclipse in Decades (Gift Article)
We’re answering some questions about the solar eclipse on Aug. 12, and providing a place for you to ask more of them.
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Skywatchers across Europe are getting ready to experience totality, a heady reminder that we are on a rock twirling around a star in space, one small part of an infinite universe. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/w...
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Total Eclipse (Gift Article)
If you’re in Europe, get ready to gaze at the sky. But not without the right glasses.
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Are you a student scientist facing unique challenges trying to navigate the next stage of your career amid Trump's policy changes? I'm working on a story for @nytimes.com & want to hear from you -- contact info in my bio.
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Are you a student scientist facing unique challenges trying to navigate the next stage of your career amid Trump's policy changes? I'm working on a story for @nytimes.com & want to hear from you -- contact info in my bio.
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery www.propublica.org/article/fede...
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How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery
A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
You may have never heard of the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality. But they are the only federal agency supporting work that brings basic research & discovery down to practice: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/s...
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Health Care Agency Discontinues Dozens of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality slowed the awarding of new grants last year. Now it is stopping existing ones.
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It's the first potentially habitable world known to host an atmosphere, making it a lead contender in the search for life beyond our solar system. (🎁 link as always) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/s...
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Astronomers Find an Atmosphere on a Nearby Earthlike Planet (Gift Article)
It’s the first potentially habitable world known to host an atmosphere, making it a lead contender in the search for life beyond our solar system.
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Spectacular starry views have raised a community of dark sky defenders along the border of West Texas. But with a wall slated to rise, they wonder: How long will the natural darkness last? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/s...
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Dark Sky Defenders Raise Alarm Along the Border of West Texas (Gift Article)
Residents fear that the Trump administration’s plans to build a border wall will threaten the region’s spectacular starry skies.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A nice write-up from @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social on local concerns about the admin’s plans to destroy some of the natural beauty of the Big Bend area — especially the night sky, as this is one of the least lighted areas in the country — with the construction of a border wall.
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Dark Sky Defenders Raise Alarm Along the Border of West Texas (Gift Article)
Residents fear that the Trump administration’s plans to build a border wall will threaten the region’s spectacular starry skies.
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Dean Napolitano @dinonapolitano.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
“The largest digital camera on Earth has finally started filming a motion picture of our universe,” writes @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
For the next ten years, the Rubin Observatory will drink in light from billions of galaxies and stars, creating a crisp record of how objects streak, pulse and explode in our solar system, the Milky Way and beyond. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/s...
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A Dazzling Census of Our Cosmos Begins
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/06/2026
NASA named four astronauts who will be part of Artemis III, the next mission in the agency’s program to return humans to the surface of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
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Live Updates: NASA Is Announcing Its Artemis III Astronauts
Four astronauts will be part of the next mission in the agency’s program to return humans to the surface of the moon by 2028. The recent explosion of a Blue Origin rocket could complicate matters.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/05/2026
In a historic moment, I was interviewed by fellow Black woman particle physicist Dr. Katrina Miller. Few people can understand my journey the way she does. We talked about my new book, why poetry matters, and yes, how the *fact* of non-trinary neutrinos challenges anti-trans rhetoric. #GiftLink
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A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry From the Cosmic Edge
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"I have made you a book with a bunch of tidbits on the oddities of the universe," @chanda.blacksky.app said. "The universe is stranger and more queer and more wonderful and more full of possibility than whatever limitations you might be experiencing." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...
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A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry From the Cosmic Edge
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Our Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer’s Work From Gaza www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/w...
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Our Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer’s Work From Gaza
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
For seven years, the Hobby-Eberly scanned the faintest corners of the cosmos, drinking in light from ancient galaxies while stargazers below took advantage of the darkness to revel in views of our universe that are becoming increasingly rare. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...
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Dark Skies and Dark Energy Converge at a West Texas Star Party
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A nice read from @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social about HETDEX (a program aimed at understanding dark energy) and the beauty and dark skies of west Texas, where the observations are taking place (at @texasscience.bsky.social’s McDonald Observatoy)
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Dark Skies and Dark Energy Converge at a West Texas Star Party
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🌔💥 You had questions about the impact flashes the crew of Artemis II saw during their lunar flyby--and @leebillings.bsky.social has answers for you! Follow all our mission coverage here: spklr.io/6001EyN07
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
There it was: the swirly blue crescent of our planet, with all of us -- you, me, everyone we know -- in tow. Earth dipped ever lower on the horizon of a lifeless, pockmarked moon, a poignant farewell to the members of the crew as they plunged into radio silence. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/s...
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First Photos From NASA Moon Flyby Show Setting Earth and Eclipse
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/04/2026
NASA’s Artemis II crew restored contact with Earth after flying around the moon’s far side, which had caused a planned radio blackout. Follow live updates.
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Artemis II Live Updates: NASA Astronauts Call Home After Emerging From Moon’s Far Side
The four astronauts concluded a historic lunar flyby that included their greatest distance from the planet. “We will always choose Earth,” Christina Koch said in words to humanity.
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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I guess you can love someone to the moon & back.
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"It’s a bright spot on the moon,” CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen said, his voice breaking up, “and we would like to call it Carroll.” The crew all shared a hug after. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/s...
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Astronauts Dedicate Moon Crater to Carroll Wiseman, Wife of NASA Commander
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
recap of Artemis II mission day 4. they're now more than 2/3 of the way to the moon 🚀🌙 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/s...
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NASA Astronauts Are Closer to Moon Than Earth on Artemis II Day 4
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"You look amazing, you look beautiful," Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, the first Black man to journey around the moon, said about seeing us from afar. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/s...
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NASA Unveils 1st Earth Photos From Artemis II: ‘You Look Beautiful.’
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. 🧪🔭 #Artemis www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
Earth.
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Stephanie Nolen @stephanienolen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Let's be frank: the thing we're all wondering, looking at those astronauts in that tiny pod, is how anyone is going to 💩. Fortunately, @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social brings us the science of the Artemis toilet www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/s...
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The Artemis II Toilet Had a Problem
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
back live for day 2 of NASA's Artemis II moon mission www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
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Live Updates: Orbiting Artemis II Astronauts Prepare to Head to the Moon
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Andy Weir spoke to The New York Times about the science underlying Project Hail Mary & the process of adapting his novel into a feature film: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/s...
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A ‘Hail Mary’ for Earth, Built on Solid Science
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
NASA teams all polled “go” for an Artemis II launch in early April www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/s...
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NASA Says Artemis II Moon Launch Is On Track for April 1
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 10/03/2026
New data adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits. Gift link: Via @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/s...
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
NASA smashed a spacecraft into one of a pair of asteroids. the impact shifted the pair’s orbit around the sun: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/s...
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Asteroid-Smashing NASA Mission Sped Up Space Rocks’ Journey Around the Sun
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
the blood moon rises 🌖 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/s...
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Watch the Moon Turn Blood Red During a Total Lunar Eclipse
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This feels like prologue. They cut the reseach about keeping crowds safe www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/s...
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World Cup Crowds Could Be Targeted. This Team Worked to Keep Them Safe.
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Karmela Padavic-Callaghan (they/them) @kpc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
My first book, Entangled States, will be published in exactly three months. Please ask me about it! I will come on your podcast or write for your mag about quantum physics and how it intersects with my life anytime!
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Jesse Jackson, Charismatic Champion of Civil Rights, Dies at 84 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...
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Jesse Jackson, Charismatic Champion of Civil Rights, Dies at 84
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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
News from the edge of the visible universe: JWST has confirmed this galaxy, MoM-z14, as the most distant one yet studied. We're seeing it as it was 13.5 billion years ago, 98% of the way back to the beginning of time. (MoM stands for "miracle or mirage.") 🧪🔭 science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
The galaxy designated MoM-z14 is currently the farthest galaxy ever detected, spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and confirmed spectroscopically with its NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument.

Through Webb, we are seeing this galaxy as it appeared in the distant past, only 280 million years after the universe began in the big bang. Its light has traveled through space for more than 13 billion years to reach us.

Like some other galaxies Webb has discovered in the early universe, MoM-z14 is brighter, more compact, and more chemically enriched than astronomers expected to find in this early era. While it may pass out of record books quickly as the farthest galaxy, MoM-z14 will still play a role in helping astronomers and theorists reach new understanding of the earliest chapters in the universe’s story.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
People often disparage the press — and we often get it wrong — but almost everything you know about this administration is not because pundits go on tv or social media and pontificate but because of relentless reporting from real journalists at institutions that give them resources to do so.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
as a journalist my favorite word is TK
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.
A photo of Claudette Colvin in a red sweater
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nytimesguild.bsky.social @nytimesguild.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
THE TIMES IS UNION-MADE: Today we began bargaining our new contract, and in our first session, we not only told management we were united, we showed them. Our bargaining committee presented a pledge signed by 80% of our union, supporting five core priorities…..
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Wowzer! This is a mind-blowing discovery (and completely awesome science writing). Hats off to @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social
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This ‘Galaxy That Wasn’t’ Never Bore Any Stars
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
in 2026, there will be journeys to the moon & Mars, new visions of the cosmos & a solar eclipse that might be worth traveling for. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/s...
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Your Wait for These Space Events Is About to Pay Off
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