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Bringing #space to the public │ Chief Science Communications Officer #JamesWebb & #Hubble for @esa│ #Newfoundland 🇨🇦

St. John's
Joined January 2012
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THE TORONTO @BLUEJAYS ARE HEADING TO THEIR FIRST WORLD SERIES IN 32 YEARS 😤 #CLINCHED
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Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor! 📸 Elizabeth Earle Photography | facebook.com/mermaidscape/ 📌 Twillingate, NL 🗓 May 12, 2025 #nlwx
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Bethany Downer retweeted
Just going to leave this right here. 🇨🇦❤️ Plein de fierté. Jusqu’au bout. 🇨🇦❤️ #4Nations
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Bethany Downer retweeted
There are millions of kids now adults smiling at this very moment. Well deserved, Science Guy. Well deserved.
William Sanford Nye (@BillNye) receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Today's we've published our last Picture of the Month from James Webb in 2024! NGC 2566 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Puppis, featuring well-defined spiral arms, long central bar and delicate tracery of gas, dust and stars. Details: esawebb.org/images/potm2412a…
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⭐ It's here!⭐ The 2025 Hubble/Webb calendar is now available FREE to the public for digital or print download options. We invite everyone to enjoy the twelve months of images of the cosmos from these beloved missions that were released throughout 2024: esahubble.org/announcements/…
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We've just released an amazing new time-lapse from Hubble spanning from 2014 to 2023 of one of the most rambunctious stars in our galaxy. R Aquarii is a symbiotic binary star that lies only roughly 1,000 light-years away. Full release: esahubble.org/news/heic2413/ #Hubble #scicomm
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Timelapse flying by Hurricane Milton about 2 hours ago. 1/6400 sec exposure, 14mm, ISO 500, 0.5 sec interval, 30fps
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We’ve partnered with @VareseSarabande to do a giveaway of the sold-out Oceanic Blue Smoke vinyl edition of Michael Giacchino’s music for LOST: SEASON ONE. To enter, follow @VareseSarabande and @TheLOSTworld_, and share this post! We’ll pick 3 winners on November 1st. Good luck!
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St John’s with the evening sun making a picturesque setting for a flypast by the Red Arrows and a final performance during the team’s Maple Hawk tour of Canada. #RedArrowsMapleHawk #RedArrows #StJohns #Newfoundland #Labrador #Canada #Flypast #seethingsdifferently
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James Burke timed up one of the greatest shots in TV history
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The results are in! 🥁 You voted for your favourite Paris 2024 moment that embodied the Olympic spirit. 🤩 Canadian gymnast and four-time Olympian, Ellie Black won your vote for her support for other gymnasts. 🎉 #Olympics | @EllieBlack_ | @TeamCanada | @gymnastics
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📣 Call for a science writer! 📣 The ESA/Hubble and ESA/Webb Outreach team is looking for a science writer ✍️ to help bring the images and science of Hubble and Webb to the public. Find out more: esawebb.org/announcements/an…
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The medals awarded at the #Olympics contain metals made by large stars that exploded billions of years ago. 🥇🥈🥉 But you don’t have to be a stellar athlete to be rewarded with star stuff — learn more about how and where familiar elements are made: tmblr.co/Zz_UqjaPr5GvSq00
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It’s been a rough couple of days for Canada. Especially with the fires in Jasper. Tonight 🇨🇦 Céline Dion made us proud. And reminded us of resilience and bravery and so many values we hold as Canadians.
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The Eagle has landed. This day will forever be etched in history as we celebrate the 55th anniversary of humans walking on the Moon.  #NASA #InternationalMoonDay #MoonLanding #Apollo11
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Bethany Downer retweeted
isn’t it crazy that this stuff is just out there?
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Happy Monday!🌟 Today we shared two new beautiful images: LEFT (#Hubble): The nebula RCW 7, which resides 5300 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. RIGHT (#Webb): A new image of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant 6500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus.
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