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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Sep 12

Kennedy Space Center, here I come!!

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Sep 4

It's lunation 1270 and exciting things are happening in space & astronomy: ngttg.kit.com/posts/it-s-j...

It's just a baby (exoplanet)!

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Aug 14

I yapped for a little bit about life and Clarion

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Clarion / August 2025 Update Vlog

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Aug 12

Still can't totally believe I got to do this!! What an experience!

Clarion Workshop @clarionucsd.bsky.social · Aug 12

Meet our 2025 Clarion Writers’ Workshop graduates! They’re pictured with their instructors, @jedediahberry.com and GennaRose Nethercott, who led the final two weeks.

It has been an unforgettable summer, and we’re so proud to call this class Clarion alumni!

Photograph of the eighteen Clarion Writers’ Workshop graduates with their instructors, Jedediah Berry and GennaRose Nethercott.

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Aug 7

It makes me physically ill to read this

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Aug 7

Fun fact, if you subscribe by email you get the newsletter conveniently in your inbox and you get a little bonus personal blurb from me!

Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Aug 7

Got this lunation's Gibbous Guide out before the end of the waxing gibbous by the skin of my teeth!

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Another exoplanet next door

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Aug 7

Got this lunation's Gibbous Guide out before the end of the waxing gibbous by the skin of my teeth!

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Another exoplanet next door

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Aug 5

A blonde woman leans over a camera with a cloudy blue sky behind her

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today's procrastination task: going through my personal TikTok account and privating all the insanely embarrassing old videos of me dancing 🙈

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · Jul 30

Big day for the matriarchy! 🥳 Huge congrats to the awesome Prof. Doughtery, lead on the Jupiter-bound ESA JUICE mission & STFC Exec Chair.

If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Holyrood 🤗

ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩‍🔬🔭🧪

UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years

Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Jul 28

I'm pretty sure whoever curates the word list in Spelling Bee has never taken a science class

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Jul 27

Me trying to order a beer at the bar: 🧍‍♀️

Random guy behind me: woah that is a huge human

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Jul 24

Spent a couple hours writing a beautiful scene of about 1300 words, realized the story will be way too long if I include that story beat, and deleted the whole thing 🥲

a black and white dog is running in a kitchen next to a chair .

ALT: a black and white dog is running in a kitchen next to a chair .

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Jul 24

I didn't know that it wasn't mainstream?? It's been in the OED since 1989!

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Jul 22

I don't think TikTok quite groks my niche... I mean I'm happy to talk about why Mercury is in retrograde, but I don't think it's going to be what the people searching are looking for!!

Screen shot with "Get Inspired" ideas, under "Picked for you" it says mercury retrograde meaning

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · Jul 21

This is absurd.

The red supergiant Betelgeuse is the bright feature in this image.

But that darker blue splotch is a *companion star* that's just been discovered—and it orbits so close to Betelgeuse that it's inside the larger star's outer atmosphere.

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Jul 21

I've been so busy with my workshop I haven't had time to keep up with the news, so I'm a couple days late to this slap in the face. The superintendent role is a 3 year position with a mandatory retirement afterwards; VADM Davids is only 18 months in and is being moved to a different role. Sketch af

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · Jul 17

BREAKING: The Trump administration is removing the U.S. Naval Academy’s first female superintendent, according to news report buff.ly/5aJWK6A

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Jul 20

56 years!!

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Jul 20

No but he watches it a lot! It came up because he was trying to explain to me just how crazy the recent Australia vs West Indies test 3 match was

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Jul 20

It was!

Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Jul 20

A good excuse to procrastinate!

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Jul 20

I watched a video which did not help because there were 4 pieces but somehow only one seam?!

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Jul 20

My husband is trying to explain the subtleties of air flow around a cricket ball to me, but I'm still way back at the starting line trying to figure out the topology of making a sphere with a single seam.

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Jul 19

I am literally in the middle of scripting a video about matter/antimatter asymmetry! Guess I have a new segment to add 😃

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · Jul 19

The LHCb experiment has observed a new difference between matter and antimatter in particles called baryons

The Large Hadron Collider Discovers Mysterious Antimatter Physics

The LHCb experiment has observed a new difference between matter and antimatter in particles called baryons

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · Jul 19

After 3 weeks in La Jolla, it feels so nice to be back in Pasadena and WARM again!! 🌞

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