June is Pride month, and an opportunity to highlight the LGBTQ+ members of the STEM community.⠀ 🏳️🌈👩🚀🚀 Anne McClain is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, engineer, and a…
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#SpaceSunday with Dr. JJ Eldridge
June is Pride month, and an opportunity to highlight the LGBTQ+ members of the STEM community. 🏳️🌈✨🔭 Dr. JJ Eldridge is an astronomer and senior lecturer at the University of…
By now you’ve probably seen the Black Hole Picture but did you know that Dr. Katie Bouman was one of the scientists behind it?
🔬 Dr. Katie Bouman is a US computer scientist who developed a computer algorithm behind the world’s first image of a black hole. The algorithm, named CHIRP, created an image…
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Valentina Tereshkova is a retired Soviet cosmonaut and the first woman to go into space, piloting Vostok 6 in 1963!
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👩🏽🚀“Don’t get bogged down by the notion of limits. There aren’t any.”👩🏽🚀-Sunita Williams👩🏽🚀Sunita Williams is an American astronaut and former US Navy officer. Sinus has spent 322 days in space,…
#SpaceSunday with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
🔬Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and core faculty member in women’s studies, at the University of New Hampshire. Chanda studies particle astrophysics and cosmology….
#SpaceSunday with Vera Rubin
#SpaceSunday with Vera Rubin ✨🔭 “There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.” ✨🔭 Vera Rubin was an astrophysicist…
#SpaceSunday with Sarah Parcak-Space Archaeologist
#SpaceSunday with Sarah Parcak-Space Archaeologist 🛰📡 Sarah Parcak’s findings and techniques of combining high-resolution imagery from satellites with thermal imaging has helped find an additional 17 pyramids, 1000 tombs, and over 3200…
#SpaceSunday with Dr. Sandra Faber
#SpaceSunday with Dr. Sandra Faber ✨ Sandra Faber has helped better understand the brightness of galaxies related to the speed of the stars within them, co-discovered the Faber-Jackson relation, and helped…
#SpaceSunday with Vera Rubin
#SpaceSunday with Vera Rubin ✨🔭 “There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.” ✨🔭 Vera Rubin was an astrophysicist…
#SpaceSunday with Carolyn Shoemaker
#SpaceSunday with Carolyn Shoemaker ☄ Carolyn Shoemaker is an astronomer who holds the record for the most comet discoveries, after finding more than 800 asteroids and 32 comets. ☄ Although Carolyn…
#SpaceSunday with Heidi Hammel
#SpaceSunday with Heidi Hammel 🔭 Dr. Heidi Hammel led the Hubble Space Telescope Team that investigated Jupiter’s atmospheric response to conditions and was the first science user of the refurbished…