Sophia Gad-Nasr

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I do cosmology and astroparticle theory. I pick apart the Universe to figure out how it works. Science Advisor. Dark Matter hunter.
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On the news the other day they talked about how people are being fooled by AI generated images of the aurora. When you've seen the real thing, they're easy to spot but I get that it can be hard to tell. Mine are real and look out for my real-time videos, they show what I saw. 🌌

It's World Hamster Day, so I had to share this adorable snap of Muini 🥹❤️ I miss this little bundle of joy. Do you have any hamster pics to share?

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How fucking cool is this picture from the International Space Station of the eclipse creating a shadow on the Earth during the eclipse.

What a surreal experience totality is. No words. #solareclipse

Post a pic you took of a sunset

Post a pic you took of a sunset: I have more subset pictures but I think this one is tops. I took it while on one of runs in Connecticut. I _think_ it was with an iPhone 4; the orange ovals were artifact from the optics and completely serendipitous... bsky.app/profile/juli...

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@astropartigirl.bsky.social How were you NOT on this paper?

From Storm Colloms: Learn how greedy stars can store overflow matter to eat later in today's bite! astrobites.org/2024/03/18/h...

Unveiling hamstars: the cheek-stuffing accreting starsastrobites.org Learn how greedy stars can store overflow matter to eat later in todays bite

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It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows. (1/n)

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Gravitational waves will unveil the adventures of black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs as they interact, merge, and send ripples across the universe. Join us on February 6 to explore these discoveries—because gravity has quite a story to tell. youtu.be/Nz-Kinl748c

A Tapestry of Gravity: LISA and the Future of Gravitational Wave Astronomyyoutu.be Speaker: Shane L. Larson, Northwestern UniversityNearly everything we know about the universe has beendiscovered using photons - light in all its myriad form...

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The mighty Orion Nebula! Have you ever seen this through a scope? Just wowww🤯🤯 I started this piece last January and left it for 10+ months because I didn't like it, but I made myself finish it this month! I think going back to it was the right decision, I like it now.😂 What do you guys think?🤔

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Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes mission. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-a...

Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes missionwww.bbc.co.uk The lander has begun sending photos, including that of a nearby rock nicknamed "toy poodle".

Wanna hear something incredibly cool? A small swatch of material from the Wright Brother's plane, the first plane to ever fly on Earth, was also part of the first ever flight on Mars, with Ingenuity. What a beautiful thing. Left pic: Upper: NASA JPL, lower: Library of Congress Right pic: NASA JPL.

I grew up on these streets.

This is the most STUNNING IMAGE OF VENUS I'VE EVER SEEN. This may come as a surprise, but did you know Venus has the most volcanoes of all the planets and moons in the solar system?! Over 80,000! And yes, it is volcanically active. Image Credit: JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Damia Bouic

Happy 2024, friends! I came across quite an incredible shot of a volcano eruption on Io I had to share, taken by the Galileo spacecraft on Feb 22, 2000. The resolution wasn't great, so I tweaked it in Topaz Gigapixel AI, and WOW, IS IT STUNNING. Here's the original: www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Exciting news, friends! Today marks the release of my first first-author paper, and it's about the rapid late-stage gravothermal evolution of Self-Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) halos: arxiv.org/abs/2312.09296

On the Late-Time Evolution of Velocity-Dependent Self-Interacting...arxiv.org We study the evolution of isolated self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos that undergo gravothermal collapse and are driven deep into the short-mean-free-path regime. We assume spherical...

This is a very special moment I have been waiting and working a long time for: I SUBMITTED MY FIRST FIRST-AUTHOR PAPER TO THE ARXIV!! Excited to tell you about it. I worked with incredible coauthors and learned so much from each of them. Keep your eyes out on Sunday when submissions are announced!!

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Today's the 56th anniversary of the confirmation of pulsars by Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell! First detected in Aug '67, it wasn't until this day that Queen JBB caught the fast recordings. Wrote about this in @spaceausdotcom.bsky.social 👇🏽 www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/55-y... 🔭🧪👩‍🔬 📸 CSIRO

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Unique, educational space art. Spectrum of Stardust prints drop this week! ✨ •Early access for email subs on November 29, 3pm MST •Public release November 30, 3pm MST •Fine art giclee prints start at $95 ⏰ It is not too late to join my email list: stellerarts.myflodesk.com/subscribe 🐡🔭🧪

Hi all, I have a new video on Saturn and its moon Enceladus! It's a collab with MOVAGlobes, so if you want one of them, use my promo code APG15 for 15% off any globe of your choice (you get free shipping too): www.movaglobes.com?ref=aPzwhcKQ... Or, just enjoy the video 😊 youtu.be/jWmMIzCY9ZQ?...

Saturn and its icy waterworld of a moon, Enceladusyoutu.be DYK that we've discovered more moons around Saturn than Jupiter?! It also hosts a moon that is a waterworld beneath its crust of ice, and may host life: Ence...

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🎉🙏 We did it!!! 🙏🎉

If you're an academic interested in leveraging social media for scicomm AND academia, join my upcoming webinar with Springer Nature! Webinar 1: Oct 24, 11 PM - 12 AM PT: register.gotowebinar.com/rt/249417769... Webinar 2: Oct. 26, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM PT: register.gotowebinar.com/rt/249417769...

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This is phenomenal. Just spectacular.

My husband is an artist who makes orreries (clockwork planetary models) out of metal and glass. When I was struggling to finish my novel, he made me a deal: if I finished the book, he'd make me an orrery based on the world of my novel. It's freaking BEAUTIFUL.

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My first podcast! Listen in to learn about the Sun & two upcoming solar eclipses — an annular eclipse on Oct 14, 2023 & a continent-crossing total eclipse on April 8, 2024 — plus 2 amazing experiments: Citizen CATE 2024 & the NASA WB-57 jets. Hope you enjoy it! 🧪🔭 www.swri.org/podcast/ep59

Preparing for the Upcoming Eclipseswww.swri.org In the coming months, people in the U.S. will have a front row seat to two upcoming eclipses. An annular eclipse on October 14, 2023 will cross North, Central and South America. A total eclipse will

Huge congrats to the 2023 Nobel physics laureates, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier, who won the prize for creating flashes of light short enough to study rapid movements of electrons inside atoms! Anne L’Huillier is the 5th woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics. Amazing!!

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A new doctor is among us!