Nora's Guide to the Galaxy
@ngttg.bsky.social
I love space!
PhD, Astrophysics
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come explore our galaxy with me
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PhD, Astrophysics
🌌✨✨🌌
come explore our galaxy with me
🔗: https://galaxy.nora-bailey.com/linktree
My husband asks a question and gets a whole ass YouTube video a month later 😅
November 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
My husband asks a question and gets a whole ass YouTube video a month later 😅
Took a picture to check my makeup before filming a video (coming next Monday!) and it turned out so ✨ dramatic ✨ lmao
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Took a picture to check my makeup before filming a video (coming next Monday!) and it turned out so ✨ dramatic ✨ lmao
Made this plot for a video I'm working on 👀👀
November 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Made this plot for a video I'm working on 👀👀
Yesterday my husband crowed that England batted for about half of what would be considered a good at bat. So tonight I saw him watching the cricket I asked "how much are you guys winning by?"
"We're not..."
"Wait, what? I thought England did really bad?"
"They did. And then we did even worse..."
"We're not..."
"Wait, what? I thought England did really bad?"
"They did. And then we did even worse..."
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Yesterday my husband crowed that England batted for about half of what would be considered a good at bat. So tonight I saw him watching the cricket I asked "how much are you guys winning by?"
"We're not..."
"Wait, what? I thought England did really bad?"
"They did. And then we did even worse..."
"We're not..."
"Wait, what? I thought England did really bad?"
"They did. And then we did even worse..."
Every year the Planetary Society does a voted "best of" for space, and I love voting! Here's how I voted this year:
www.planetary.org/best-of-2025
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www.planetary.org/best-of-2025
🪐🔭🛰️🧪
Best of 2025
Cast your vote for the best of space exploration and science in 2025!
www.planetary.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Every year the Planetary Society does a voted "best of" for space, and I love voting! Here's how I voted this year:
www.planetary.org/best-of-2025
🪐🔭🛰️🧪
www.planetary.org/best-of-2025
🪐🔭🛰️🧪
Where's All the Antimatter??
YouTube video by Dr. Nora's Guide to the Galaxy
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November 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Kennedy Space Center, here I come!!
September 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Kennedy Space Center, here I come!!
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)!
ngttg.kit.com
September 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It's lunation 1270 and exciting things are happening in space & astronomy: ngttg.kit.com/posts/it-s-j...
Clarion / August 2025 Update Vlog
YouTube video by Nora's Guide to the Galaxy
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August 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Still can't totally believe I got to do this!! What an experience!
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!
It has been an unforgettable summer, and we’re so proud to call this class Clarion alumni!
August 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Still can't totally believe I got to do this!! What an experience!
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!
Got this lunation's Gibbous Guide out before the end of the waxing gibbous by the skin of my teeth!
ngttg.kit.com/posts/anothe...
ngttg.kit.com/posts/anothe...
Another exoplanet next door
ngttg.kit.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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!
Got this lunation's Gibbous Guide out before the end of the waxing gibbous by the skin of my teeth!
ngttg.kit.com/posts/anothe...
ngttg.kit.com/posts/anothe...
Another exoplanet next door
ngttg.kit.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Got this lunation's Gibbous Guide out before the end of the waxing gibbous by the skin of my teeth!
ngttg.kit.com/posts/anothe...
ngttg.kit.com/posts/anothe...
Today's procrastination task: going through my personal TikTok account and privating all the insanely embarrassing old videos of me dancing 🙈
August 1, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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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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... 👩🔬🔭🧪
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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... 👩🔬🔭🧪
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... 👩🔬🔭🧪
I'm pretty sure whoever curates the word list in Spelling Bee has never taken a science class
July 28, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I'm pretty sure whoever curates the word list in Spelling Bee has never taken a science class
Me trying to order a beer at the bar: 🧍♀️
Random guy behind me: woah that is a huge human
Random guy behind me: woah that is a huge human
July 27, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Me trying to order a beer at the bar: 🧍♀️
Random guy behind me: woah that is a huge human
Random guy behind me: woah that is a huge human
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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July 24, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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 🥲
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!!
July 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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!!
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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.
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.
July 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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.
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.
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
BREAKING: The Trump administration is removing the U.S. Naval Academy’s first female superintendent, according to news report buff.ly/5aJWK6A
July 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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
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.
July 20, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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.
I am literally in the middle of scripting a video about matter/antimatter asymmetry! Guess I have a new segment to add 😃
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
spklr.io
July 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I am literally in the middle of scripting a video about matter/antimatter asymmetry! Guess I have a new segment to add 😃
After 3 weeks in La Jolla, it feels so nice to be back in Pasadena and WARM again!! 🌞
July 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
After 3 weeks in La Jolla, it feels so nice to be back in Pasadena and WARM again!! 🌞