Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious: I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

1. this rules 2. "I work on the heliophysics communications team" is one of the most Video Game job descriptions we have ever heard and we mean that as a compliment

CO-SIGNED

Hearing no objections, motion passes.

Exactly, it sounds like cyberpunk tbh lol

Half-Life vibes

i opened the alt to see if i actually recognized the purple and yes I did recognize it, the carcinisation continues (this flag fucks hard, thank you)

🏳️‍🌈💖🦀🦀🦀💖🏳️‍🌈

It fucks so hard

really worthy of becoming one of the most-liked-skeets-of-all-time in a single day

It's an excellent skeet

I feel like it's emblematic of a bunch of stuff about bsky Not everything, though I think if you look hard enough you can see Orion's hog and Boöbtes

😂 Boöbtes

Is this the first skeet to get more than 10k likes in under 24 hrs? Probably, right?

this is awesome

I volunteer at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and am 100% forwarding this whole thing to the volunteer staff, they'll love it! Thanks for creating it!

Awww, thank you! Thanks for all the great work y'all do there--the Adler is a treasure! ✨

This is gorgeous. If you wanted to spend the time (not asking you to) I would totally read a blog/post about what each image is and inspect the full image, that is how awesome this is

I'll copy/paste from the bird site for you! (It was super fun finding all the different images, so I'm happy you want to know the sources ☺️)

OMG AMAZING!! Thank you for the time and effort. :)

White: Cloud vortices off Heard Island (south Indian Ocean) Taken 11/02/2015 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua Earth-observing satellite mission go.nasa.gov/3VmM059

NASA Image and Video Librarygo.nasa.gov NASA Image and Video Library, serving up consolidated imagery and videos in one searchable location. Users can download content in multiple sizes and resolutions and see the metadata associated with i...

Pink: Aurora over Bear Lake, Utah Taken 05/11/2024 by NASA's Bill Dunford (couldn't copy the link, sorry -- the guy is @sighted on Insta)

Light blue: X-class solar flare in extreme ultraviolet light Taken 05/15/2024 by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) imager on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory in the 131-angstrom wavelength svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14593/#media...

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Brown: Swirling storms in Jupiter's North Temperate Belt Taken on 10/16/2021 by Juno's JunoCam on the spacecraft's 37th close flyby go.nasa.gov/4bVElli

Catalog Page for PIA24971go.nasa.gov

Black: Hubble Ultra Deep Field (composite image) Taken over 11 days between 09/24/2003 and 01/16/2004 by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Near Infrared Camera Multi-object Spectrometer (NICMOS) svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30946

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Red: Red sprite cluster Taken 11/01/2022 by Spritacular participant Nicolas Escurat in Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France go.nasa.gov/45orxRY

go.nasa.gov

I had never heard of or seen a red sprite cluster before this. Amazing!

Ah! I read the alt text, and "top of sprites" was the only one I didn't know at all what it meant

Orange: Mars' Intrepid Crater Taken 11/11/2010 by Opportunity's panoramic camera (Pancam) in near true color (601 nm, 535 nm, 482 nm wavelengths) science.nasa.gov/resource/int...

Intrepid' Crater on Mars - NASA Sciencescience.nasa.gov “Intrepid” crater on Mars carries the name of the lunar module of NASA's Apollo 12 mission, which landed on Earth's moon Nov. 19, 1969.

Yellow: Io basemap (composite image) Images from Voyager's vidicon and Galileo's solid-state imaging cameras were stitched together to form this map of Jupiter's volcanically active moon www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Io in Plain View - NASAwww.nasa.gov Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with volcanoes that erupt massive volumes of silicate lava, sulphur and sulphur dioxide, constantly changing Io's appearance. This new base...

Voyager! Vidicon!! Yes, folks, Voyager had an old-fashioned TV camera that scanned the imaging plate with an electron beam. In Jupiter’s strong magnetic field. So the resulting images were badly distorted and had to be geometrically corrected (at USGS in Flagstaff, where I was an intern).

Wow, that's so cool!!

On a PDP-11/45 with 32 kilobytes of data memory! The computer spent a *lot* of time moving data back and forth between disk and memory.

SO worth it 🤩

Green: Algal blooms on California's Clear Lake Taken 05/15/2024 by Landsat 9's Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) in natural color earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15286...

Clear Lake Clouded by Algaeearthobservatory.nasa.gov The nutrient-loaded Northern California lake turned green with algal growth in spring 2024.

I've been there! We spent a week in the state park with our canoe (motorboat folks slept in til mid-day). The mountain S of center is volcanic obsidian; the water gets bathtub warm in summer to grow all those greens the fish love, with lots of grebes, a colony of white pelicans, osprey & eagles.

Wow! Was the algae difficult to canoe through?

The river where folks put boats in is nw of the C in Clear Lake St Park label, a lil beach is around by the k. Our campsite was full of ripening blackberry bushes, we had great pancakes & oats that week! The lake fills up with water plants.

More elodea (real plants-plants growing up thick) than tiny algae the year we were there. We were careful with our paddles, certainly, & hosed down the canoe when we pulled it out of the water at the end of the week. Srs showers at the beach, too: hope they close the beach in bloom years, ew!

Blue: Neptune's Great Dark Spot Taken 10/30/1998 by Voyager 2's narrow angle camera from 4.4 million miles away from the planet go.nasa.gov/4clnV5s

Catalog Page for PIA01492go.nasa.gov

Purple: Crab Nebula (composite) Taken 12/11/2013 by the Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer instrument on ESA's Herschel telescope and archival data from the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope go.nasa.gov/4cgBP95

ESA Science & Technology - Herschel and Hubble composite image of the Crab Nebulago.nasa.gov Herschel and Hubble composite image of the Crab Nebula

If you want to brave the bird site that info is on the post there. But every comment after is a bunch of chuds.

It’s so thoughtful that they included it already!

The alt text on op's image lists what each one is, if you don't want to see it on the other apps!

The alt text has at least a few hints! ♥️

Gorgeous! Happy Pride!

HAPPY PRIDE!!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Really great idea and came out amazing. Sorry ppl are the worst.

The universe is too big and too spectacular for those jerks to handle.

Just bookmarking the highly non-worst fact that the head post of this thread now has nearly 23,000 hearts.

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