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I double-majored in physics and human rights at the University of Connecticut. I wasn’t interested in pursuing physics after college until I took my first astrophysics class with my first woman physics professor. She inspired me to pursue a career in astrophysics. /jcr
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In the exciting days after a GRB, I am triggering telescopes, turning their data into a beautiful image of the explosion, and measuring how bright the explosion was. In a typical day, I study our observations of past GRBs to better understand their causes and how they work. /jcr
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I use observations from some of the world’s largest optical telescopes to better understand the universe’s most energetic explosions: gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We can't predict GRBs, and their optical counterparts can fade in hours, so trying to catch them is quite exciting! /jcr
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Hello! My name is Jillian Rastinejad. I am a fourth-year PhD student studying observational astronomy at Northwestern University. /jcr
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Join us today for a special social takeover with Jillian Rastinejad to celebrate the discovery of a game-changing cosmic explosion! Stay tuned while she introduces herself and the work she does in astrophysics.
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Science is a cycle of questions and answers … and sometimes a discovery shakes up what we know about the universe! #ICYMI, Swift and Fermi recently detected a gamma-ray burst that didn’t fit into established categories for these powerful events: https://go.nasa.gov/3YEaMib
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NASA Missions Probe Game-Changing Cosmic Explosion

On Dec. 11, 2021, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a blast of high-energy light from the outskirts of a galaxy around 1 billion light-years away.
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Our sixth astronomical gift is … an eclipsing six-star system!
Astronomers found a system whose six stars all undergo eclipses, using data from our planet hunter TESS, a supercomputer, and automated eclipse-identifying software. https://go.nasa.gov/3HDSBmu
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Discovery Alert: First Six-star System Where All Six Stars Undergo Eclipses

Astronomers found the first six-star system where all of the stars participate in eclipses, a discovery made by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The system is about 1,900 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.
Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
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#OTD in 2009 our Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) launched!
WISE's all-sky survey led to mind-expanding science including:
⚫ Uncovering millions of black holes
⭐ Discovering the coolest class of stars
💡 Imaging the most luminous galaxy

More: https://go.nasa.gov/3URn6Za
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NASA - WISE

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Our fourth and fifth astronomical gifts are … Stephan’s Quintet!
When looking at this image from @NASAWebb, Stephan’s Quintet seems like five galaxies hanging around each other — but did you know that one of them is much closer than the others? https://go.nasa.gov/3hoan2p
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NASA’s Webb Sheds Light on Galaxy Evolution, Black Holes

The new image of galaxy group "Stephan's Quintet" from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows in rare detail how interacting galaxies trigger star formation in each other and how gas in galaxies is being disturbed.
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Four of the galaxies are hanging out together about 290 million light-years away, but the fifth and leftmost galaxy in the image below is actually closer to Earth at just 40 million light-years away! Here’s a labeled view from @chandraxray and a ground-based optical telescope.
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#OTD in 1970, @nasa launched its first Earth-orbiting satellite entirely devoted to the study of cosmic X-ray sources. 🚀 Marjorie Townsend, conducting preflight checks with Bruno Rossi in this image, named the satellite Uhuru, which means "freedom" in Swahili.
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When two galaxies encounter each other, it takes 1-2 billion years for them to merge and settle down. While the stars already in the galaxies don’t change much, the collision can spark lots of new stars to form! ✨ #MondayMotivation
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Our second astronomical gift is … two giant bubbles!
With the Fermi spacecraft, scientists found out that our Milky Way galaxy is blowing bubbles — two of them! Each bubble is about 25,000 light-years tall and glows in gamma rays. https://tmblr.co/Zz_Uqj2dMNkMX
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Blowing Bubbles in the Gamma-ray Sky

Did you know our Milky Way galaxy is blowing bubbles? Two of them, each 25,000 light-years tall! They extend above and below the disk of the galaxy, like the two halves of an hourglass. We can’t see...
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100 years ago, scientists had limited knowledge about the cosmos. #PretendToBeATimeTraveler with our Cosmic Times educational series, and hop through important moments that defined our understanding of how the universe began and how it changed over time: https://go.nasa.gov/3uGkceV
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Cosmic Times

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Telescopes help us look back in time — the farther the object, the longer its light takes to reach us! You can #PretendToBeATimeTraveler with @NASAWebb as it collects light from 13.5 billion years ago, when the first stars and galaxies were forming: https://go.nasa.gov/32ZCHAv
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Early Universe - Webb/NASA

After the Big Bang, the universe was like a hot soup of particles (i.e. protons, neutrons, and electrons). When the universe started cooling, the protons and neutrons began combining into ionized atoms of hydrogen (and eventually some helium).
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Cotton candy … planets? These “super-puffs,” discovered by our @NASAExoplanets Kepler telescope, look as big as Jupiter but are roughly a hundred times lighter in mass. Like real cotton candy, their puffy atmospheres won’t last forever: https://go.nasa.gov/3WhgZi3 #CottonCandyDay
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'Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations

"Super-Puffs" may sound like a new breakfast cereal. But it's actually the nickname for a unique and rare class of young exoplanets that have the density of cotton candy. Nothing like them exists in our solar system.
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#OTD in 1968, @nasa launched its first successful cosmic explorer. Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2, which could point at and track sources in the sky, is the direct ancestor of current telescopes including @NASAHubble, @chandraxray, and Swift. More: https://go.nasa.gov/3Y2cOIv
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50th Anniversary of OAO 2: NASA’s 1st Successful Stellar Observatory

Launched on Dec. 7, 1968, NASA's Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2, nicknamed Stargazer, was the agency's first successful cosmic explorer — a direct ancestor of Hubble and many other astronomy satellites.
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Sometimes the stars that grow up together … stay together! This large infrared mosaic captured by our Spitzer telescope is a multigenerational “family portrait” of multiple clusters of stars born from the same dense clumps of gas and dust: https://go.nasa.gov/3VUQZbW #StarrySights
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NASA's Spitzer Captures Stellar Family Portrait

The evolution of stellar families - born from the same clumps of gas and dust - is just some of what's on display in this sweeping image.
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For decades, astronomers generally divided gamma-ray bursts into two categories based on their duration and origin. Now Swift and Fermi have detected a burst that breaks the rules, shaking up what we knew about the universe’s most powerful events: https://go.nasa.gov/3HiA6DP
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NASA Missions Probe Game-Changing Cosmic Explosion

On Dec. 11, 2021, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a blast of high-energy light from the outskirts of a galaxy around 1 billion light-years away.
Jeanette Kazmierczak (NASA)
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#OTD in 1998, our Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) launched into space to hunt for water and other molecules linked to life as we know it. For nearly seven years, SWAS helped us study water in the Milky Way, star formation, comets, and more: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/facilities-technology/telescopes-instruments/submillimeter-wave-astronomy-satellite
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Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite | Center for Astrophysics

NASA’s Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) was a space observatory built to look for water and other molecules associated with life as we know it.
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The oldest observable light in the universe is in the same wavelength range that cooks your food — microwaves! The cosmic microwave background was emitted about 13.8 billion years ago, when the universe was just 380,000 years old. https://tmblr.co/Zz_Uqj2bmSLWy #MicrowaveOvenDay
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What Can We Learn from the Universe’s Baby Picture?

If you look at your baby photos, you might see hints of the person you are today — a certain look in the eyes, maybe the hint of your future nose or ears. In the same way, scientists examine the...
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Some massive star clusters shine bright for our Fermi telescope’s gamma-ray eyes due to the numerous fast-spinning pulsars they are likely to contain. This sky map highlights three of our galaxy’s largest globular clusters plus a few notable binary star systems. #StarrySights
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The nitrogen in your DNA was once inside a small star. 🧬 That star shed its outer layers at the end of its life, forming a planetary nebula and freeing its nitrogen to become part of our solar system. #MondayMotivation
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#OTD in 1990, Astro-1 was launched on the space shuttle Columbia. It was a science platform that carried one X-ray and three UV telescopes. This pioneering mission gave us a nine-day glimpse of the high-energy universe. Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/3VjYNUJ
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Launch of ASTRO-1 – Dec. 2, 1990

This week in 1990, space shuttle Columbia, mission STS-35, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center carrying Astronomy Laboratory 1 in its cargo bay.
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Our Swift observatory doesn’t just have fast reflexes. It can also snap stunning pics with its Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope! This view of Omega Centauri, our galaxy’s biggest globular cluster, shows millions of stars in various life stages: https://go.nasa.gov/3gOlhyk #StarrySights
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NASA - An Image Gallery Gift from NASA's Swift

The Swift team has selected more than 100 images to help celebrate eight years of operations of the satellite's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope.
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#ICYMI: Scientists used the @NASA_NCCS Discover supercomputer to explore how weak jets from monster black holes affect galaxies similar to our own Milky Way. Watch this video to learn more about how simulations help fill in the details: https://go.nasa.gov/3isWgZM
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NASA Goddard Scientists Create Black Hole Jets with NCCS Discover Supercomputer | NASA Center for Climate Simulation

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The Pleiades is a star cluster you can see without a telescope! Though called the “seven sisters” for its brightest members, the cluster contains over a thousand stars loosely bound by gravity. Our WISE telescope captured this infrared image: https://go.nasa.gov/3XJ1HE7 #StarrySights
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Seven Sisters Get WISE

This image shows the famous Pleiades cluster of stars as seen through the eyes of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer; they are what astronomers call an open cluster of stars, loosely bound to each other to eventually go their separate ways.
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Even baby stars burp!

Data from our retired Spitzer Space Telescope shows that young protostars can experience outbursts about every 400 years. These eruptions are a sign that the growing stars are devouring gas and dust from disks that surround them. https://go.nasa.gov/3gRVxkj
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Baby Star ‘Burps’ Tell Tales of Frantic Feeding, NASA Data Shows

The youngest stars often shine in bright bursts as they consume material from surrounding disks.
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Curious about stars? The Sun is a main sequence star, which means that it converts hydrogen into helium in its core in a process that keeps it from collapsing. It’ll become a red giant in about 5 billion years when it runs out of hydrogen. Learn more: https://universe.nasa.gov/stars/types/
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Types | Stars – NASA Universe Exploration

The universe’s stars range in brightness, size, color, and behavior. Some types change into others very quickly, while others stay relatively unchanged over trillions of years.
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Our universe is speckled with stars, with billions just in our galaxy. Some stars live alone or in twos or threes, but others are bound together by gravity into much larger communities. In honor of @NASAHubble’s exploration of #StarrySights, let’s talk about star clusters! 🧵 1/6
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Globular clusters are stellar "dinosaurs" scattered throughout the universe, containing some of the oldest stars in the universe. These clusters can contain anywhere from tens of thousands to millions of stars, packed tightly together in a dense clump. 3/6
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Star clusters are divided into a few different types, based on how many stars are in a cluster and how tightly they’re bound by gravity. Stars in clusters typically have a shared origin, and they can live very close together or can be spread out over hundreds of light-years. 2/6
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Open clusters have fewer members, usually a few hundred stars or less. Most open clusters are much younger than globular clusters, and they’re also much less dense and less tightly bound than globular clusters. 4/6
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Scientists are interested in how star clusters form and evolve. Some disperse and spread out over time, while others remain tightly bound together by gravity. The different types of stars in clusters also have various life spans, so they change and die off as a cluster ages. 5/6
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Many different @nasa observatories study star clusters using different types of light. Alongside @NASAHubble, we’ll be highlighting how some of our other telescopes help us learn about these stellar communities! 6/6
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Stars in globular clusters pack snugly together. Messier 28, for example, crams about 50,000 stars into a region just 60 light-years (350 trillion miles) across. The Sun only has about 400 known stellar neighbors that close. #MondayMotivation
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Thanks to @nasa’s WISE, retired Spitzer Space Telescope, and @ESA’s retired Herschel Space Telescope, the constellation Orion has a stellar story to tell. Radiation from massive stars is altering the clouds of gas and dust they reside in. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3EpyRjg
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NASA, ESA Reveal Tale of Death, Dust in Orion Constellation

In a tale of cosmic proportions, the region is being transformed by the massive stars that live and die within it.
Tony Greicius (NASA)
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Elizabeth Apala is a senior research assistant doing minority recruitment and outreach @NASAGoddard while representing her Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Cherokee heritage. Fun Fact: Elizabeth enjoys signing in American Sign Language and managing her miniature goat farm! #NAHeritage
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To the unaided eye, the Orion Nebula appears as a tiny, hazy spot within the sword of the constellation Orion. But it’s a vast stellar nursery of roiling dust and gas where vast numbers of new stars are forming. #MondayMotivation
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