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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hello new followers 👋

My name is Jake

I'm currently an astronomer at Cornell studying the atmospheres & magnetic fields of exoplanets 🪐🧲

I'm also a photographer, social justice activist, & world traveler 🌍

I post about my research, astronomy, my photography, my cat, & politics

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 23d

A little color with the naked eye

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 24d

Northern lights tonight over Cayuga Lake in Ithaca, NY 🔭

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · Sep 8

Blue skies

Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · Jul 28

Photo taken with Pixel 8 Pro Phone (4 min exposure)

Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · Jul 28

Milky Way near my house 🔭

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · Jul 20

“One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969 🔭

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · Jul 12

Exoclimes 2025 (@exoclimes.bsky.social) was an amazing week of science, meeting old friends, making new friends and colleagues, and having fun exploring Montreal! 😊

Thanks everyone!

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ExoClimesVII @exoclimes.bsky.social · Jul 11

#ExoClimesVII is done and that’s a wrap on a great week full of science🔭🛰️🪐! On behalf of the entire LOC, thank you to all participants for making this week so special and memerable 🥹. Can’t wait to see you guys all again at ExoClimes VIII 🛸🚀

MERCI À BIENTÔT!!

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · Jul 10

Same 😬

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ExoClimesVII @exoclimes.bsky.social · Jul 7

Exoclimes VII has officially begun!! 👽🧑‍🚀👩‍🚀🚀🚀 Things have kicked off with some welcoming words from our fearless leaders Lisa Dang @astrolisadang.bsky.social & Romain Allart! And now off to our first review talk from Nicolas Cowan about Exoplanet atmospheric Dynamics 🪐☄️

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · Jul 7

I'm in Montreal this week for Exoclimes 🇨🇦

Excited for a great week of exoplanet science! 😀

Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · Jul 5

Pluto at Fuertes Observatory 🔭

Taken through the 102-year-old Irving Porter Church Refractor

Image taken by Ben Jacobson-Bell & The Cornell Astronomical Society

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · Jun 26

Today is my 7th PhD Anniversary!! 🥳🎓

Wow, how time flies 🤯

Picture from my PhD dinner 👇

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Carl Sagan Institute @carlsaganinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 25

Have you seen the Rubin Observatory's first images?

Rubin has the largest digital camera in the world, and it's ready to revolutionize astronomy! Over the next decade, it will discover 2000x MORE galaxies than the 10 million shown below.

Let's explore how its images compare to other telescopes 🔭

0.05% of the 10 billion galaxies Rubin will discover in the next decade. Every corner of the sky holds a star or galaxy, some of which were simply too far away, too dim, to be seen before now. Rubin bridges the vastness.

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · Jun 14

Today we show the power of the people ✊

Join the nationwide peaceful 'No Kings Day' protests in a city near you 👇

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Jun 9

We will not cower, even in the face of Trump’s militarized escalation.

On Saturday, we are going to rise up all across the country in defiance of this administration’s authoritarian agenda.

Join the nationwide peaceful protests for No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

(around an image of a map of No Kings events) NO KINGS JUNE 14 - NATIONWIDE DAY OF DEFIANCE nokings.org

Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · Jun 4

Rejected from a dream job yesterday 😭

This one hurts 🤕

Mood today 👇
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In The End [Official HD Music Video] - Linkin Park

YouTube video by Linkin Park

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · May 27

My current research focuses on using TESS to study the changing orbits of exoplanets 🔭

See the epic trailer for the TESS mission below! 🤯

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · May 5

Take Action Now to Support Astronomical Science Programs 🔭
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#savescience

Action Alert 2025 | American Astronomical Society

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · May 2

Urge Your Members of Congress To Support NASA Science 🔭
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NASA SMD Dear Colleague Action Alert | American Astronomical Society

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Apr 29

🚨SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE: TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS 🚨

In his first 100 days, Trump has declared war on science—slashing budgets, censoring facts, and meddling in research. From climate to cancer care, real lives are at risk.

Here’s a thread on Trump’s assault on science so far—and why it matters: (🧵)

A protest graphic titled “TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS” with bold red blocks reading “SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE.” Black paint drips from the top, and a grayscale crowd of protestors hold signs like “Save Science,” “Keep Your Hands Off Our Pipettes,” and “No Science, No Future.” A U.S. flag waves on the right.

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · Apr 25

Happy 35th Birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope!! 🔭

I had pictures of Hubble on my wall as a kid. And now I'm an Astronomer. What a journey 🤯

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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · Apr 22

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us... To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, & to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." Carl Sagan #earthdayeveryday #EarthDay

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Carl Sagan Institute @carlsaganinstitute.bsky.social · Apr 20

*** If you’d like to support the search for life, take just one minute to urge American representatives to support NASA science. Slashing NASA’s budget in half would make these scientific discoveries near impossible. ***

www.planetary.org/action-center

Action Center

Whether it's advocating, teaching, inspiring, or learning, you can do something for space, right now. Let's get to work.

www.planetary.org

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Carl Sagan Institute @carlsaganinstitute.bsky.social · Apr 20

Has JWST found life on another world? 🔭

An analysis of exoplanet K2-18 b points to the existence of dimethyl sulfide, a molecule produced by photosynthesizing plankton on Earth—but proving that this sign is real, and that life is the only explanation, is a difficult task.

arxiv.org/abs/2504.12267

Artist depiction of an exoplanet (Celestialobjects/Pablo Carlos Budassi) with the text "LIFE ON AN OCEAN WORLD? Do these 'hints of life' hold water?"

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Dr Ryan MacDonald @distantworlds.space · Apr 17

𝗡𝗼, 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝟮-𝟭𝟴𝗯'𝘀 𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲.

K2-18b is back in the news, now with a bold claim that biosignature molecules (DMS and/or DMDS) have been 'detected at 3σ'.

Most exoplanet astronomers are extremely sceptical about these claims, let's see why (1/n).

🔭🧪🪐 #exoplanet

Artist's impression of the exoplanet K2-18b.
Credit: A. Smith, University of Cambridge.

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