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Keighley Rockcliffe

@kerockcliffe.bsky.social
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in no particular order: she/her, exoplanet astronomer, cat mom, cheese lover, 🏳️‍🌈, kdrama enthusiast, trying to be a halfway decent human being 🍉 kerockcliffe.com

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thinking about what sorts of questions we can explore from a data crunching perspective using the *huge* @apod.shinyakato.dev archive 🤔🔭🧪
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 23/09/2026
🔭 A New Lunar Crater: McGetchin Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Intuitive Machines Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II) ap260923
Two images. The before image shows a lunar surface sprinkled with small craters. The after image shows the same location but taken over by a large dark impression surrounding by a ridge that slopes down to the surface.
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Huei Sears, PhD 🌟 @starlights.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
new cat new cat new cat !!!!! 🧪 science is so cool
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 16/09/2026
🔭 Webb's View of M64 Image Credit: NASA, CSA, ESA, F. Belfiore (ESO), J. Lee (STScI), A. Leroy (OSU), and D. Thilker (JHU); Image Processing: G. Kober (NASA/Catholic University) Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II) ap260916
Hubble and JWST image of M64. A massive spiral galaxy glows with a yellow core, surrounded by arms full of orange-brown dust and pink and blue patches of star formation. Framed by a haze of dark dust, the galaxy shines against black space dotted with a few stars.
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
First light!
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 15/09/2026
🔭 A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus Image Credit & Copyright: Arnaud Mariat ap260915
A blue sky has a light cloud crossing the middle of 
the image. Two crescent objects are visible through the 
cloud, a large faint crescent in the center and a brighter
crescent above it. 
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
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ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 10/09/2026
An asteroid killed the dinosaurs because they didn’t have a space agency – so ESA’s Hera asteroid mission has a dino mascot (also aboard the spacecraft in real life!). But our dino needs a name – that’s where you come in! www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
Name the dino competition poster
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 09/09/2026
🔭 Witness XZ Andromedae Wink Video Credit: Ogetay Kayali (MTU, Starfront Observatories) Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II) ap260909
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This was a fun APOD to write! Forget everything you know about eclipses. What would you think watching the Sun become swallowed in the sky? 🔭
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
forgot feeds were a thing... #astrophotography
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Back to Bluesky to share that I am a new editor for Astronomy Picture of the Day and we are moving to science.nasa.gov/apod! Very excited to share cool astro images with everyone 🌌🔭
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APOD - NASA Science
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Shannon Stirone @shannonstirone.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
They’ve indiscriminately fired 10% of NASA employees. I don’t need to remind you that NASA’s budget is less than 1% of the entire federal budget but I will. Here’s what that looks like, it’s pennies. www.popsci.com/real-cost-na...
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The Real Cost Of NASA Missions
What is the price of awe and amazement?
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Not Alie @ologies.bsky.social referring to veins as "blood tunnels" 💀💀💀💀💀
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I gave a talk for PLUNCH and the UC Santa Cruz folks were so nice and welcoming! Highly recommend 😊 plus you're basically giving a talk on Endor 🌲🌲🌲
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
getting caught up in coding interactive plots ✌️
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/11/2024
There is a global climate catastrophe underway, multiple genocides happening, a housing and unhoused people crisis, a child poverty crisis, people are struggling to afford food and what are moderate Democrats and GOP concerned about? "Where people pee." These fascists don't want us to survive.
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
yes I'm going to take all my anger at the world out on this motion-sensor sink that won't work unless I do the hokey pokey
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Dr. Oz are you kidding me
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Ken-tastic talk on BARBIE (Bayesian Analysis...exo-Earths) from @nertushka.bsky.social 🩷🩷🔭🪐
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
hey bluesky, it's been a while 👋
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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 11/03/2024
A new interpretation of JWST spectra suggests that exoplanet K2-18b is a gas-rich world without a habitable surface rather than a life-supporting ocean world. aasnova.org/2024/03/11/k... 🪐🧪
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K2-18b May Not Be Habitable After All - AAS Nova
A new interpretation of JWST spectra suggests that exoplanet K2-18b is a gas-rich world rather than an ocean planet.
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Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
I recently did a stand up comedy set about the random and terrible theories engineers email to astronomers worldwide. I suspect we'll all be hearing a bunch of wacky nonsense from Muskerton on a regular basis imminently.
A tweet from his lord high muskiness proclaiming that something is "fundamentally wrong... with the dark matter theories" and that dark energy is "slightly less dubious". Idiot.
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Catherine 🌌 @catieslaughts.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
Wow today's astrobite is so cool I bet the person who wrote it is pretty cool too ngl
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Small but Mighty: Disk Chemistry in an M-Dwarf System
Today’s paper takes a look at circumstellar disks’ chemistries, and addresses how their chemical composition can be impacted by their host stars.
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PRISM Exeter @prismexeter.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
🎉 Drumroll, please! We're thrilled to announce the launch 🚀 of our Queer Science Competition! Express your creativity and celebrate LGBTQ+ trailblazers in STEMM with a short essay or video. Dive into the details at prismexeter.com/qsc 📷#QSC2024
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PRISM Exeter - QSC
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
I want to help my department implement an astro-related python coding workshop for undergrad and grads to take. Is there anything like that out there already that y'all recommend?? 🔭
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Homer Simpson pretending to thank the academy but with "arts" changed to "astronomy"
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
First wave of rejections leaving me waiting for a job... 🔭🧪
Photo of Sirius Black from the third Harry Potter movie saying "I did my waiting! Twelve years of it! In Azkaban!"
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
😍😍😍 credit Rae Holcomb/UCI 🔭🪐 phys.org/news/2024-01...
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Astronomers analyze masses, orbital properties and atmospheric features of six exoplanets
A recently discovered solar system with six confirmed exoplanets and a possible seventh is boosting astronomers' knowledge of planet formation and evolution. Relying on a globe-spanning arsenal of obs...
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
Really interesting bite!
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
The fact that no betting platform has done a commercial with Troy Bolton's famed "Bet On It" is a travesty
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
First rejection email of the season 👏 it's a part of the field, it's a part of life, and I'm going to be okay
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
Ron DeSantis should be forced to carry his Presidential campaign to term.
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Cats That Heal Your Depression @000.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
Thisn👇👇👇
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
They're all in the same state as me now 😭 leave us alone!!!!
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Ologies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
CRABS. 🦀 Visit the @NHMLA's crab bunker w/ #Carcinologist @AdamWall626 for: which crabs are NOT crabs, romantic crabs, Old Bay, Amelia Earhart, Sea Monkeys, invasive crabs, giant land crabs that can crack skulls, delicacies, Hollywood crabs + more: www.alieward.com/ologies/carc...
Adam Wall wears a lobster print shirt and a felt crab hat at the Natural History Museum, and Alie stands in front of him smiling. The Ologies logo appears in the lower left corner.
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Getting political ads in New Hampshire right now is *wild*
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/01/2024
Bug Thread xkcd.com/2881
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Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Hello there! Are you on the job market? Do you love astrophysics? Then how about applying for one of our 3 open Research Fellow positions at the University of Surrey? One of them is with me! Find and study dwarf galaxies with Michelle! 🔭🧪 jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
She seems cool 🤷‍♀️
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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
✨ Meet the Authors ✨ Hello from our friendly, not-so-neighborhood redhead, @kerockcliffe.bsky.social! 🔭🧪 www.instagram.com/p/C2AWJN8Oka...
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Astrobites on Instagram: "✨ Meet the Authors ✨ Hello from our friendly, not-so-neighborhood redh...
astrobites on January 12, 2024: "✨ Meet the Authors ✨ Hello from our friendly, not-so-neighborhood redhead, Keighley Rockcliff..."
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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
The astro[sound]bites podcast is recruiting two new co-hosts for 2024! Do you want to share astronomy in a fun and inclusive way while improving your science communication skills? Then apply to be an astro[sound]bites co-host today! 🔭🧪 astrosoundbites.com/recruiting-2...
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Apply to be an astro[sound]bites Co-Host!
Do you find yourself wanting to present the latest astronomy research in an accessible and lighthearted format? Do you wish you could conduct meaningful outreach and be part of an active Diversity, Eq...
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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Happy Wednesday #AAS243 ! 🔭 Today, the Rainbow Village 🌈 is excited to highlight the presentations by people of color at AAS! Please check this thread and save it so you can support these folks today! #rainbowvillage #wednesdaypresentations
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
If you're in New England and feel like a lil drive to do some space stuff ✨👀🔭
Join Dartmouth College's physics and astronomy department for their public observing Kick-Off Event on January 27th! Visit sites.dartmouth.edu/publicobserving/special-events/ for more information.
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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
As part of the Rainbow Village 🌈 at #AAS243 , we will be highlighting talks, poster presentations, workshops and events given and led by people of color! Please stay tuned throughout the meeting to support people of color at the meeting! Check out today's presentations today here! 🔭 #rainbowvillage
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
Sad I'm missing AAS but at least I can see Massachusetts' first real snow of the season
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
EXCITED
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
#AAS243 👀
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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
From Junellie Gonzalez Quiles (@spacejunellie.bsky.social): Today’s article highlights Dra. Nicole Cabrera Salazar, co-chair of the AAS Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy (CSMA) and co-organizer of the Rainbow Village at AAS! 🔭🧪 astrobites.org/2024/01/05/r...
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The Rainbow Village at AAS: Dra. Nicole Cabrera Salazar and AAS Committee on the Status of Minoritie...
Today’s article highlights Dra. Nicole Cabrera Salazar, co-chair of the AAS Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy (CSMA) and co-organizer of the Rainbow Village at AAS!
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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
✨ Meet the Authors ✨ Time to meet Jessie Thwaites!!! 🌌🔭🧪 www.instagram.com/p/C1ucwWSupe...
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Astrobites on Instagram
✨ Meet the Authors ✨ Time to meet Jessie Thwaites!!! 🌌 Current Affiliation: UW Madison What is your role and what do you love about working in Astrobites? chair of scheduling, ombudsperson...
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