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Morgan Cable

@starsarecalling.bsky.social
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Planetary scientist searching for life and interesting chemistry in the solar system and beyond. The stars are calling and we must go!

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Morgan Cable @starsarecalling.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
(1/3) Josh and I have news... we are moving to New Zealand! I'll be joining the faculty of Victoria University of Wellington (www.wgtn.ac.nz/scps), and Josh will be consulting for local tech and aerospace.
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Morgan Cable @starsarecalling.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
If you're in LA this Mon, Aug 4, come join us at Dog Haus Biergarten in Pasadena for Astronomy on Tap! I'll be speaking about #NASADragonfly and David Vartanyan will also drop some knowledge about exploding stars... there will be trivia, telescopes and NASA swag! astronomyontap.org/event/astron...
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Kenneth Becker @geophotographer.org · 14/06/2025
NASA’s EMIT sensor on the ISS detected high methane levels off California’s coast, highlighting how satellite tools can trace pollution from industrial and natural sources. #EMIT #Methane #EarthScience 🧪⚒️🛰️
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NASA Sensor on Space Station Eyes Contamination off California Coast
Proof-of-concept results from the mouth of the Tijuana River in San Diego County show how an instrument called EMIT could aid wastewater detection.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 15/06/2025
🔭 Two Worlds, One Sun Left Image Credit & Copyright: Damia Bouic; Right Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS; Digital processing: Damia Bouic apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25061...
Two images are shown side by side. On the left is a sunset seen from Earth, while on the right is a sunset seen from Mars. The Earth sunset is quite orange, while the Mars sunset is quite blue. The Sun appears angularly smaller from Mars than from the Earth. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 08/06/2025
Saturn.
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Casey Dreier @caseydreier.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Four charts showing the extent of cuts to NASA in the FY26 budget: - Cuts to every science division - Smallest science funding since 1984 - 19 active, inflight missions cancelled - Smallest NASA budget since FY 1961
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I am furiously, flamingly, incandescently, *supernova-levels* of angry right now. Trump is trying to kill NASA science. And hoo boy, do I have something to say about it. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/trump-thre... 🔭 🧪
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Trump threatens to eviscerate NASA
The Presidential budget proposal is a death sentence for the space agency
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I tried to explain this to a reporter today. When you are constantly under threat of budget cuts or have actual budget cuts, shit gets efficient real quick because it is that or cease to exist.
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Briefly wandered over to The Other Place to gauge the response to the NASA budget devastation to encounter a bunch of gleeful 'we spend too much money, so this is great.' TO BE, ONCE AGAIN, PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE BUDGET REQUEST MOVES ALL THIS MONEY TO DEFENSE. IT SPENDS IT. NO MONEY IS SAVED.
A screenshot of p.43 of https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf showing $119.3B moved from Defense to Non-Defense.
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Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Our buddy Maria is in this picture. And that's the thing, right? Scientists are people, in all shapes and sizes and ages, with networks of friends and loved ones. We are you, and our future is shared. That future is still unwritten, so we need to work together to make it what we want.
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Steve Bowen @stevebowen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
One of the easiest ways for the public to see the value of NOAA / NASA / USGS data is for broadcast TV, streamers, weather apps, etc, to simply start showing (sourcing) agency logos on graphics. Repetition and visual association works. Hurricane season would be a great time to start.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 31/05/2025
Another gem in the newly released NASA fiscal-year 2026 budget: How they're going to downsize the Agency. They're going to cut the number of full-time civil servants with NASA from 17,400 to 11,850—a 32% cut. They're going to get rid of a third of the Agency.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 31/05/2025
This is seismic. Isaacman had clearly articulated a strong support for science, and the withdrawal of his nomination yet further imperils NASA's Science Mission Directorate. www.semafor.com/article/05/3...
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White House to pull NASA nominee Isaacman
Jared Isaacman was set for a vote next week, but now the president is yanking his nomination.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 31/05/2025
"NASA’s primary role is space exploration and, similar to prior generations that were inspired by the Apollo lunar landings, NASA will inspire the next generation of explorers through exciting, ambitious space missions. The FY 2026 budget proposes no funding for NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement."
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 31/05/2025
Inspired by @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social and @ohdearz.bsky.social, here's what the White House proposed budget cuts to NASA would do to the entirety of the agency's Science Mission Directorate. Bloodbath is right.
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James Tuttle Keane @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The president’s proposed NASA budget does 2 things well: it cedes US leadership in STEM, and it funnels taxpayer dollars to companies and their CEOs. Moving the goal to Mars means that companies get to spend a LOT of tax dollars in development, rather than having to deliver actual results.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/05/2025
We're going to learn some tough stuff today about the White House's proposed budget for fiscal year 2026—including what they have in mind for NASA. I'll share what I hear, but remember: CONGRESS decides how much money NASA gets, not the White House. So whatever happens today, the fight continues.
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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The President's budget request would be devastating to NASA science and our quest for life beyond Earth. But there's still time to act, and your voice matters.
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It’s Not Too Late to Save NASA’s Imperiled Search for Alien Life, but the Clock Is Ticking
NASA’s astrobiology ambitions are at risk of collapsing under the White House’s proposed budget. But your voice can make a difference
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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭
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Dr James O'Donoghue 🪐 @interplanetary.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The proposed NASA and NSF cuts feel like when ISIS destroyed the monuments of Palmyra with sledgehammers. These things not only pay for themselves, they return several dollars for every $1 spent. Kill the science, kill the spin-offs, startups, patents, talent pool and global influence.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
This seems extremely relevant
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The Planetary Society @planetarysociety.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
BREAKING: The president's budget request just hit Congress, which could usher in a dark age for NASA space science. Congress has the final say, but you can help shape the outcome by adding your name to our global petition. This is just the start of our fight. Sign the petition: planet.ly/petition
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people** 🧵 on some highlights...
Senior Researchers 60,400 --> 16,900
Other Professionals 14,400  --> 4,100
Postdoctoral Associates 5,500  --> 1,000
Graduate Students 41,500  --> 12,400
Undergraduate Students 37,300  --> 8,000
PreK-12 Teachers 42,900  --> 8,200
PreK-12 Students 128,100  --> 39,400
Total Number of People 330,100  --> 90,000
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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Here's a bit of help with writing and calling to support NASA:
planetary.org
Save NASA Science - Action Hub
NASA science faces record cuts. Take action to stop it—we'll show you how.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.
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James Tuttle Keane @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.
The NASA planetary science fleet chart. It shows two spirals with missions to Moon/Mars and the Solar System. I’ve crossed off all of the missions that will be cancelled in the president’s budget… and there are a lot of them.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 17/05/2025
🔭 Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited Image Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25051...
This close-up from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera shows weathered craters and windblown deposits in southern Acidalia Planitia. A striking shade of blue in standard HiRISE image colors, to the human eye the area would probably look grey or a little reddish. But human eyes have not gazed across this terrain, unless you count the eyes of NASA astronauts in the sci-fi novel, "The Martian," by Andy Weir. The novel chronicles the adventures of Mark Watney, an astronaut stranded at the fictional Mars mission Ares 3 landing site, corresponding to the coordinates of this cropped HiRISE frame. For scale, Watney's 6-meter-diameter habitat at the site would be about 1/10th the diameter of the large crater. Of course, the Ares 3 landing coordinates are only about 800 kilometers north of the (real life) Carl Sagan Memorial Station, the 1997 Pathfinder landing site.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 20/05/2025
Not that anyone asked, but during my tenure on the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board, under part of Obama-2 and all of Trump-1, we visited Military Bases domestically & abroad. At no time did any member of the Armed Forces I met say to me: “America needs less science funding.”
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Cynthia Phillips, PhD @planetcynthia.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Is there potential for life on Jupiter's moon Europa? Let's ask a NASA expert... oh, that's me! #planetsci 🧪🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfzm...
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Is There Potential for Life on Europa? We Asked a NASA Expert
YouTube video by NASA
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Martin Rahm @rahmlab.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
#PhDposition in Computational #Astrobiology & #QuantumChemistry! Join us at Chalmers in 🇸🇪. Collab with NASA's JPL and @starsarecalling.bsky.social in 🇺🇸. @astrobiology.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social @bluemarblespace.bsky.social #chemsky #compchem www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha...
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