Jackie Barrientes
Social Media Specialist - Space Telescopes (Hubble/Webb/Roman), Digital Audience Strategist, UNT/ASU alum, knitter, wine/bourbon drinker, Texas native 🇲🇽🇺🇸
- Last night's town hall with @votevets.org reminded me why conversations like this matter - and why a better future is still possible, but it's up to each of us to make it a reality.
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- NEW: Is frozen water around other stars? #NASAWebb provided proof for the first time: It is! Webb identified water ice around HD 181327, a Sun-like star that lies 155 light-years away. The majority is found where it’s coldest—farthest from the star: webbtelescope.pub/42Vopw0 🔭 🧪
- RFK lied to the American people. He said they haven’t fired scientists. That must be news to the scientists he fired.
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- Hot-off-the-press from NASA #astro #planetsci 🔭! Evidence for convective methane clouds in the northern lake region of Saturn’s moon Titan by #JWST and #KeckObservatory!
- NEW: Saturn’s moon Titan has weather similar to Earth’s, but driven by methane evaporation and condensation. Astronomers have found evidence for clouds bubbling up over Titan’s northern hemisphere for the first time, using #NASAWebb and Keck observatory: webbtelescope.pub/3GofvQ1 🔭 🧪
- NEW: Saturn’s moon Titan has weather similar to Earth’s, but driven by methane evaporation and condensation. Astronomers have found evidence for clouds bubbling up over Titan’s northern hemisphere for the first time, using #NASAWebb and Keck observatory: webbtelescope.pub/3GofvQ1 🔭 🧪
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- Republicans are saying that these cuts will be reinvested into Medicaid for people who "deserve" it. If that were true, the budget would stay the same. But that's not what's happening. Why? Because down the hall, they are trying to finance tax breaks for billionaires.
- BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
- 🇺🇸 A quick message from Pete Buttigieg following our #VoteVetsTownHall in Cedar Rapids.
- AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?
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- On average, every star hosts at least one planet. That means there are thousands (or more?) worlds waiting to be discovered in the star-packed heart of our Milky Way galaxy. Explore the possibilities with #NASARoman. 🔭 🧪
- i remember white south africans being stupid and evil but maybe that’s just the mandela effect
- NEW: Those undulations aren’t clouds—they’re Jupiter’s aurora as seen by #NASAWebb. Webb observed light from a particular molecule, represented in orange, and found that the planet’s aurora fluctuates on timescales of minutes or seconds: webbtelescope.pub/4kbsB20 🔭 🧪
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- The bottom image is Jupiter in infrared light from JWST. Our eyes can't see infrared light, but telescopes like JWST can. So no, your textbooks were not lying to you. Here is Hubble's visible light view: 📷 science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble...
- No other observatory can match Hubble’s unique abilities. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, ESA, and STScI. 🧪 🔭
- The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observed Jupiter’s aurora. The observations help astronomers better understand how Jupiter’s upper atmosphere is heated & cooled, and may prove useful to our #ESAJuice mission, en route to the gas giant. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪
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- Okay, the nerdiest thing at your wedding. Go!
- Getting married at Medieval Times.
- A mysterious X-ray signal at the center of the Helix Nebula could be a planet destroyed by the central white dwarf star according to the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This composite image includes Hubble data. Credit: NASA/CXC/JPL/ESA/STScI/ESO. 🔭 🧪
- Travel across interstellar space to the vast star-forming region of the Carina Nebula Complex with this visualization. 🔭 🧪
- The elevation of Pope Leo XIV is a profound and historic occasion. Like so many around the world, I am praying for him and wishing him and the Church well as his papacy begins.
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- Journey through the Carina Nebula Complex, home of the Cosmic Cliffs, in this new video produced by NASA’s Universe of Learning. Using stunning cinematic visuals, it lets you explore star formation in different wavelengths of light. 🔭 🧪
- This is The Last Supper now.
- Popeyes said pope yes
- A key portion of #NASARoman has cleared a thermal vacuum test. Tt was subjected to the hot and cold temperatures it will experience in space: go.nasa.gov/43cwDQL 🔭 🧪
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- Hubble was brought to you courtesy of NASA *Science* . . .
- Remember, if you entered the Conclave before the doors closed, they MUST count your vote, even if the white smoke is already blowing. If you’re in the chapel stay in the chapel!!!
- This is why they have the 10-minute countdown clock.
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- *Camera pans to a group of fans outside of the Vatican in pope jerseys, going nuts even though most of them haven’t heard of the pick before last week*
- Kash Patel, the conspiracy theorist that Republicans made FBI Director, came to a Senate hearing on the budget—with NO budget, NO timeline, and NO clue. It's downright incompetent, and it's making America less safe. We need serious leadership at the FBI.
- NEW: Hubble has uncovered a supermassive black hole that was only revealed when a hapless star was ripped apart in a spectacular burst of energy. There may be more wandering supermassive black holes like this lurking inside galaxies: bit.ly/4j51XYo 🔭 🧪
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- I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets
- Experience the Cosmic Cliffs like never before! #NASAWebb’s iconic image of dusty “mountains” and “valleys” is featured in a new 3D visualization from NASA’s Universe of Learning: webbtelescope.pub/4jRHIh9 🔭 🧪
