Dr. Amber Straughn (she/her)
@astraughnomer
Black Lives Matter. NASA Astrophysicist for #JWST. From Arkansas. Hiking, yoga, Great Dane mom, pilot, Pearl Jam superfan. #FirstGen Personal account - my views
WOW 🤩 NGC 300: A Cosmic Gemstone with Stars and Gas Clouds - today's #apod 📸: Team Ciel Austral ✨ Read more: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26071...
Hubble Sees Crimson Cloud and Stars✨ A glowing landscape of gas and dust is heated and illuminated by a thriving population of young stars in the LH 95 region of the Large Magellanic Cloud www.nasa.gov/image-detail...
Can you believe it's been FOUR YEARS since we celebrated the first images from #jwst?! This year's anniversary image showcases Centaurus A: a galaxy 11 million light years away with a gigantic active black hole, whose past is marked by a giant collision with another galaxy.
ICYMI: gorgeous new #jwst image of The Cigar Galaxy! There's a LOT going on here - this is a relatively nearby starburst galaxy...one that's forming stars at a furious rate, causing the massive outflows seen in these images. Read more: science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
‼️ NEW JWST IMAGE ALERT ‼️ and wow - it's stunning! 🤩 This image showcases a barred spiral galaxy 45 million light years away, including the extremely bright Active Galactic Nucleus - powered by material crashing into the supermassive black hole at the center. REad more: esawebb.org/images/potm2...
In case you needed to see a close-up image of Jupiter's clouds today 😍 Read more: science.nasa.gov/image-detail...
The force is strong with these two. Obi & Anakin wish you a Happy Star Wars Day 🐾❤️
and from a few days ago...CG 30: Cometary Globules. Image Credit & Copyright: Marcelo Salemme "Composed of interstellar gas and dust, the grouping of light-year sized cometary globules is about 1300 light-years distant." More: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26042...
Beautiful weekend on the Appalachian Trail! #backpacking #getoutside
My little 90s heart is so happy…Bush tonight at The Anthem 😍
"The Artemis II crew captures a portion of the Moon coming into view along the terminator – the boundary between lunar day and night – where low-angle sunlight casts long, dramatic shadows across the surface." www.nasa.gov/image-detail...
Another eclipse image, with Orion in the foreground. "From this deep-space vantage point, the Moon appeared large enough to sustain nearly 54 minutes of totality, far longer than total solar eclipses typically seen from Earth." More: www.nasa.gov/image-detail...
If you follow me here, you've surely already seen these, but just wow. Stunning imagery coming back from the Artemis II crew. Here, the Moon is fully eclipsing the Sun. Read more: www.nasa.gov/image-detail...
Two new gorgeous images of Saturn - in two different types of light! 🤩🪐 "...where Hubble reveals subtle color variations across the planet, Webb’s infrared view senses clouds and chemicals at many different depths in the atmosphere" More: science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
A quarter century of observing the Crab Nebula with Hubble 🤩🦀 What a stunning view. We've learned so much! Read more: science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
And here's the new Hubble image! Read the whole story and download the high res images at the link above ⬆️
Stunning! 😻 Two Observatories, One Cosmic Eye: Hubble and Euclid View Cat’s Eye Nebula science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
Today's APOD: a cosmic monster about to devour an entire galaxy! Or a chance alignment - you decide 😀 Read more: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26031... 📸: William Vrbasso
The world can be heavy. But it's also beautiful. Sometimes it's hard, but if you can, try to find the beauty ✨ This is the Jellyfish Nebula - the "expanding debris cloud from a massive star that exploded" over 30,000 years ago. 📸: Katelyn Beecroft Read more: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26022...
So cool. I've seen boxwork in caves (here on Earth 😉) - it's incredible to know not only that these structures exist on another planet, but that we as a species can build a rover to drive around on that planet and study them 🙌🚀 www.nasa.gov/missions/mar...
"Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and dust that bears an uncanny resemblance to a brain in a transparent skull" - inspiration for a new @toolmusic.bsky.social sculpture? 😉
This weekend! IMAX is bringing the JWST film Deep Sky to select AMC theaters nationwide! Click on "Advance Tickets" on the AMC site to see if it's playing near you 👀 www.amctheatres.com/search?q=dee...