Michele Bannister
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Michele Bannister
@astrokiwi.bsky.social
Planetary astronomer @UCNZ: envisioning worlds from here and elsewhere, in a dark & glorious sky. Rutherford Discovery Fellow. Asteroid (10463). Pākehā; she
I had a clippings file of amazing articles as a teenager. Some really inspiring ones there
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Happy birthday! Celebrate properly🎈
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Behold the elegant leap of the thresher shark, such a tale in the tail
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
*looks at streams of interstellar objects wrapping the Galaxy*
*looks back at sharks*
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Reposted by Michele Bannister
And here's the real downer... AST SpaceMobile plans to launch a few hundred satellites that are as bright as Saturn when sunlit. So. A lot more research images will look like this in the near future.

Thanks, direct-to-cell gigantic satellites.
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Yea, the stellar field is a lot easier to work with now!
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Reposted by Michele Bannister
#OPAG - #3I/ATLAS Observations from Europa Clipper, Executed a calibration for the UVS Instrument.
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Or that ALMA also observed it through conjunction.
November 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I like how at this point we'd need the spacecraft operators of three very different communities to manage to conspire (China, ESA, US). Yeah, nah
November 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM