#WomenInScience

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch on August 30, 2026. Join @nisenet.bsky.social as they learn more about Roman and prepare to engage learners through national events with STScI Senior Education Specialist Yesenia Perez. #NASARoman

Who was Nancy Grace Roman, the namesake of the telescope NASA is launching later this month? Dr. Roman was instrumental in taking the Hubble Space Telescope from an idea to reality and establishing NASA’s program of space-based astronomical observatories. #NASARoman 🔭

Small group meeting today so I treated everyone to treats and/or coffee/tea/matcha and we did a round of updates and then talked about the pros/cons of social media for research, outreach, and networking.

HG Wells had an all-male crew when he wrote The First Men in the Moon in 1900. But when a film was made in 1964, a female astronaut was added. Fictional astronaut Kate Callender became the first woman on the Moon! 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you! 🥞☀️ The setting Sun in this NOIRLab #ImageOfTheWeek of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory looks flattened due to atmospheric refraction. The atmosphere also filters out bluer wavelengths, leaving just the vibrant orange colors you see here 🌅

Dr. Laurie Leshin became the first female director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of Caltech in 2022. A geochemist & planetary scientist, she is the University Professor for Space Futures at Arizona State University. She was born #OTD in 1966. #WomenInSTEM #geochemistry