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Kelly Kizer Whitt
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Editor and writer at EarthSky.org, author of nine books, @Astronomommy on that other site
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Aurora / northern lights tonight are rivaling the best I’ve ever seen. This was during the 7:00 pm hour from southern Wisconsin 🔭
Green blobs and red streamers in the night sky. Bright green blob plus red curtains of Aurora. Red curtains and a green glow below of Aurora.
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Seeing some colorful northern lights right now from near Madison, Wisconsin. #aurora 🔭
Greens and reds with a bright pillar of Aurora. Pink, purple and green aurora with some lit houses Greenish waves of aurora. Purple and red with green below in a dark sky.
September 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Curious to know what we’ll learn about that Mars rock in this press conference that we didn’t already know…
September 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I’m jealous of all of you who saw the strange spiral in the night sky last night. Here are some images and an explanation of what it was. 🔭

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Strange spiral in the night sky was a rocket fuel dump
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August 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reposted by Kelly Kizer Whitt
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All of us bringing tiny bits of the lost trees into our lungs. A walking gravesite. Literally carrying the death of the forest around in us.
August 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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A tornado hit my mom’s street today. You can hear the fear in her voice. My parents were fine, though! #wiwx #tornado
July 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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I was golfing horribly last week and then something put it all in perspective to show me that things could be worse. (When you see it…)
#golf
A golf green with many gravestones in the background.
July 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Did something just hit Saturn? Possibly! 🔭 earthsky.org/space/did-sp...
Did something just hit Saturn? See the image here!
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July 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Another day of storms in Wisconsin. Plus fireflies. #wiwx
Storm clouds with 2 dips at the base. Storm clouds with ragged front edge. Storm clouds and a firefly. Storm clouds with ragged base and lighter blue background.
June 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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I love this spiral galaxy that looks like a golfer. Which galaxy in Vera Rubin’s Sky Viewer is your fave? 🔭
Many small galaxies on black background with central spiral having extensions that look like legs and swirling motion above the core.
June 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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The hue of tonight’s Strawberry Moon is courtesy of Canadian wildfires. It’s low on the southern horizon all night. Lowest moon in decades. 🔭
Some houses with lights glowing and a reddish moon not far above.
June 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Hail just now in Middleton, WI #wiwx
A hand holding nearly golf ball size hail.
May 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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I had ChatGPT make my sister’s cat into a person.
Big fluffy orange cat sitting on a ledge. Person with wild orange hair and orange sweater poised on a ledge.
April 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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“Let’s do this!” I hollered and then proceeded to not, in fact, do it.
April 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Quote post with a picture you took in a national park.

Glacier National Park, Montana, summer of 2024.
View of reddish rocks looking down at blue lake with white ice and serrated tall rocky ridge on one end.
February 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Visiting the Mall of Mexico in the Twin Cities today.
A woman stand in front of the sign for Mall of America and holds the word Mexico in front of the word America.
February 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Last week it was 1-in-83 odds. Yesterday it was 1-in-53 odds. And today it’s down to 1-in-43 odds. Let’s go!!!
🔭 🌎☄️
Asteroid 2024 YR4 chance of hitting Earth up to 1 in 43 earthsky.org/space/astero...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 chance of hitting Earth up to 1 in 43
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February 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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What if Bennu hit Earth? Simulations suggest catastrophe 🔭 (Yet why do I find it a pleasant daydream?) earthsky.org/space/what-i...
What if Bennu hit Earth? Simulations suggest catastrophe
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February 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Wordle 1,324 1/6*

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I have waited years for this day.

Time to think of a new starting word!
February 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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“The announcement came during a press conference Saturday morning, August 24, 2024. … Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are now scheduled to return to Earth in February 2025 aboard the SpaceX Dragon 9 crew capsule.”

Don’t allow them to gaslight you. 🔭

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Ailing Starliner spacecraft returns to Earth sans crew
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January 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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New asteroid is a 3 on the Torino scale. And it might stay there for a while… ☄️🔭

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 has non-zero odds of hitting Earth
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January 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Ever since visiting the southernmost point in the continental US, I’ve wanted to visit the actual southernmost point in the US. This month I was able to do just that. youtube.com/watch?v=0vcC...
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January 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Remember the mini-moon we had last fall? Turns out it likely really was a mini piece of the moon ejected during a past impact. 🔭
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Earth’s asteroid mini-moon a chunk of the moon?
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January 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Just in case you were wondering!
Lock in!
January 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM