Spaced Nerdism

a side blog for me to be a space nerd in peace

[gossamer-green]

"I'm much happier now as a teacher."

[astrotheyge]

Project Hail Mary (2026) Kier Lehman, Music Supervisor

[mumblesplash]

thumbs up baby 👎

[bodeckerhedron]

RYAN GOSLING as RYLAND GRACE

➤• PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) DIR. PHIL LORD & CHRIS MILLER

[blonsh]

Project Hail Mary - Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

[yepthatsacowalright]

Am enthralled by this visualization NASA shared of Artemis II's path through space. The most mathematically accurate little dance. <3

[uncannyannieg]

moon joy !!!

[hfourxor]

Hi, my name is James Webbony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Space Telescope and I am a telescope in space (that's how I got my name) and I have a five-layer aluminum-coated Kapton sunshield protecting my instruments and gold-coated hexagonal primary mirror segments like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Lady Gaga (AN: if you don't know who she is, get the hell out of here!). I'm not related to the Hubble Space Telescope, but I wish I was because he's a major fucking hottie. I'm an infrared telescope but I am much larger than Spitzer. I have 18 primary mirror segments. I also study exoplanets, and I go to a telescope school in L2 where I'm in orbit (I was launched in 2021). I can see distant galaxies (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly gold. I love space, and I take all my photos there. For example, today I was taking a photo of the Cartwheel Galaxy, which is about 500 million light years away. I was using my NIRcam, NIRspec, MIRI, and FGS-NIRISS. I was walking outside L2. It was around 1 million miles away from Earth and there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I unfolded my primary mirrors at them.

[without-ado]

"Return to the Moon" Artemis Ⅱ 2026

l Andrew McCarthy 1,2 l Alex G Perez 3,4 l Alexander Gerst 5

[emmaharwoods]

photos by the artemis ii crew

[mollybeenoel]

[world-beauty]

Close Up of the Lagoon Nebula

Credits: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, J.-C. Cuillandre, CFHT, Coelum

[everythingitmeans2b]

you know who you are, you're gonna do great

this is a collage piece with screenshots from the phm movie :D!! enjoy!!!!

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be a part of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[smokbeast]

amaze amaze amaze amaze amaze!!

[darkestbrook]

Oh waiter! Waiter! More art of them cuddling, please! Yes, yes, with the xenonite barriers. I like my fluff with a pinch of angst.

[soscout]

From the planets’ perspectives, Grace landed on Erid around the same time that the beetles got back to Earth. I thought about Earth racing to launch the taumoeba to Venus at the same time that Erid was racing to save Grace from starvation. Grace was healing his starved body at the same time Earth was healing her desecrated lands. Even if they didn’t know it for so many years afterwards, they were healing together. When Grace was well enough to start truly living on Erid, Sol had already begun to shine again.