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
Kennedy Space Center, here I come!!
September 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Kennedy Space Center, here I come!!
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
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!!
Have you ever seen a sprite from space?? Absolutely unreal! 🔭🛰🧪
📷: Nichole Ayers, NASA
📷: Nichole Ayers, NASA
July 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Have you ever seen a sprite from space?? Absolutely unreal! 🔭🛰🧪
📷: Nichole Ayers, NASA
📷: Nichole Ayers, NASA
I thought I was so tired because of lack of sleep (which I am), but I also realized it's because I am an extreme introvert and don't usually spend so much time around people...this is from my Garmin and can you tell when I was in a room with people and when I was alone?? 🤣
July 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I thought I was so tired because of lack of sleep (which I am), but I also realized it's because I am an extreme introvert and don't usually spend so much time around people...this is from my Garmin and can you tell when I was in a room with people and when I was alone?? 🤣
Why is the gif not giffing?!
July 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Why is the gif not giffing?!
What I'm supposed to be doing: writing a story about fairies
What I'm actually doing: making an illustration of PSF convolution
What I'm actually doing: making an illustration of PSF convolution
July 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
What I'm supposed to be doing: writing a story about fairies
What I'm actually doing: making an illustration of PSF convolution
What I'm actually doing: making an illustration of PSF convolution
I'm still not over these @vrubinobs.bsky.social pictures. I can't be the only one who sees this 😵
July 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I'm still not over these @vrubinobs.bsky.social pictures. I can't be the only one who sees this 😵
SPACE FACTS: DAY 260/365🔭🧪🛰
Space is big. But how big? We can't know how big the whole universe is, but the part of it we can see (called the observable universe) is estimated to be 93 billion light-years across. 🤯
📷Unmismoobjetivo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Space is big. But how big? We can't know how big the whole universe is, but the part of it we can see (called the observable universe) is estimated to be 93 billion light-years across. 🤯
📷Unmismoobjetivo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
May 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
SPACE FACTS: DAY 260/365🔭🧪🛰
Space is big. But how big? We can't know how big the whole universe is, but the part of it we can see (called the observable universe) is estimated to be 93 billion light-years across. 🤯
📷Unmismoobjetivo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Space is big. But how big? We can't know how big the whole universe is, but the part of it we can see (called the observable universe) is estimated to be 93 billion light-years across. 🤯
📷Unmismoobjetivo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
My dad is retiring and my brother is collecting photos for the party this weekend. I saw this in the folder and it's 💯💯💯
(He is a philosophy professor!)
(He is a philosophy professor!)
May 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My dad is retiring and my brother is collecting photos for the party this weekend. I saw this in the folder and it's 💯💯💯
(He is a philosophy professor!)
(He is a philosophy professor!)
Even better, it was a motion picture and you can see his little mouth twitching, probably dreaming about eating the very pellets on which he sleeps
May 20, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Even better, it was a motion picture and you can see his little mouth twitching, probably dreaming about eating the very pellets on which he sleeps
A little old bunny napping on his food is sometimes the only thing keeping me going
May 20, 2025 at 5:26 AM
A little old bunny napping on his food is sometimes the only thing keeping me going
SPACE FACTS: DAY 259/365🛰🧪🔭
At the edges, the Sun appears dimmer/redder than at the center. This is called limb darkening and is because of the depth to which we are seeing photons—the more straight-on angle at center allows us to see deeper to a hotter and brighter layer of the Sun!
📷: NASA/SDO
At the edges, the Sun appears dimmer/redder than at the center. This is called limb darkening and is because of the depth to which we are seeing photons—the more straight-on angle at center allows us to see deeper to a hotter and brighter layer of the Sun!
📷: NASA/SDO
May 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
SPACE FACTS: DAY 259/365🛰🧪🔭
At the edges, the Sun appears dimmer/redder than at the center. This is called limb darkening and is because of the depth to which we are seeing photons—the more straight-on angle at center allows us to see deeper to a hotter and brighter layer of the Sun!
📷: NASA/SDO
At the edges, the Sun appears dimmer/redder than at the center. This is called limb darkening and is because of the depth to which we are seeing photons—the more straight-on angle at center allows us to see deeper to a hotter and brighter layer of the Sun!
📷: NASA/SDO
SPACE FACTS: DAY 258/365🛰🧪🔭
The asteroid belt isn't just a solid belt of asteroids. It has structure within it, primarily thanks to Jupiter. Most notable are the Kirkwood gaps, thin regions within the belt with almost no asteroids due to destabilizing resonances with Jupiter's orbit.
The asteroid belt isn't just a solid belt of asteroids. It has structure within it, primarily thanks to Jupiter. Most notable are the Kirkwood gaps, thin regions within the belt with almost no asteroids due to destabilizing resonances with Jupiter's orbit.
May 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
SPACE FACTS: DAY 258/365🛰🧪🔭
The asteroid belt isn't just a solid belt of asteroids. It has structure within it, primarily thanks to Jupiter. Most notable are the Kirkwood gaps, thin regions within the belt with almost no asteroids due to destabilizing resonances with Jupiter's orbit.
The asteroid belt isn't just a solid belt of asteroids. It has structure within it, primarily thanks to Jupiter. Most notable are the Kirkwood gaps, thin regions within the belt with almost no asteroids due to destabilizing resonances with Jupiter's orbit.
SPACE FACTS: DAY 257/365🧪🔭🛰
In astronomy, a "terminator" is the line between sunlight and darkness on the surface of a celestial body. The terminator typically moves across the surface of the body unless it's tidally locked to its sun (which we don't have in the solar system).
📷NASA
In astronomy, a "terminator" is the line between sunlight and darkness on the surface of a celestial body. The terminator typically moves across the surface of the body unless it's tidally locked to its sun (which we don't have in the solar system).
📷NASA
February 18, 2025 at 4:49 AM
SPACE FACTS: DAY 257/365🧪🔭🛰
In astronomy, a "terminator" is the line between sunlight and darkness on the surface of a celestial body. The terminator typically moves across the surface of the body unless it's tidally locked to its sun (which we don't have in the solar system).
📷NASA
In astronomy, a "terminator" is the line between sunlight and darkness on the surface of a celestial body. The terminator typically moves across the surface of the body unless it's tidally locked to its sun (which we don't have in the solar system).
📷NASA
I think that's a very different topic 🤔
February 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I think that's a very different topic 🤔
Today is the 10th annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Women have been making great contributions to science forever, and imagine how much more they can do if barriers to participation are broken down.
February 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Today is the 10th annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Women have been making great contributions to science forever, and imagine how much more they can do if barriers to participation are broken down.
How are you gonna come up in my comments YELLING at me while being wrong lmfao
February 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
How are you gonna come up in my comments YELLING at me while being wrong lmfao
And another one because why not 🤭
February 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
And another one because why not 🤭
A lil teaser for Monday's video...
February 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A lil teaser for Monday's video...
SPACE FACTS: DAY 256/365🔭🛰🧪
The brightest object in the sky, besides the Sun and Moon, is the planet Venus! Because it is close to us and has a very reflective cloud cover, it's about 6x brighter than Jupiter and 12x brighter than Sirius.
📷Uroš Novina, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
The brightest object in the sky, besides the Sun and Moon, is the planet Venus! Because it is close to us and has a very reflective cloud cover, it's about 6x brighter than Jupiter and 12x brighter than Sirius.
📷Uroš Novina, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
February 8, 2025 at 5:31 AM
SPACE FACTS: DAY 256/365🔭🛰🧪
The brightest object in the sky, besides the Sun and Moon, is the planet Venus! Because it is close to us and has a very reflective cloud cover, it's about 6x brighter than Jupiter and 12x brighter than Sirius.
📷Uroš Novina, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
The brightest object in the sky, besides the Sun and Moon, is the planet Venus! Because it is close to us and has a very reflective cloud cover, it's about 6x brighter than Jupiter and 12x brighter than Sirius.
📷Uroš Novina, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
SPACE FACTS: DAY 255/365🛰🧪🔭
In 1994, we got to witness live as the comet Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 plummeted into Jupiter. The comet was pulled apart into at least 20 pieces before impact, which created plumes thousands of miles high and left marks lasting for weeks.
📷NASA/Judy Schmidt
In 1994, we got to witness live as the comet Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 plummeted into Jupiter. The comet was pulled apart into at least 20 pieces before impact, which created plumes thousands of miles high and left marks lasting for weeks.
📷NASA/Judy Schmidt
January 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
SPACE FACTS: DAY 255/365🛰🧪🔭
In 1994, we got to witness live as the comet Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 plummeted into Jupiter. The comet was pulled apart into at least 20 pieces before impact, which created plumes thousands of miles high and left marks lasting for weeks.
📷NASA/Judy Schmidt
In 1994, we got to witness live as the comet Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 plummeted into Jupiter. The comet was pulled apart into at least 20 pieces before impact, which created plumes thousands of miles high and left marks lasting for weeks.
📷NASA/Judy Schmidt