spacexplorersam

writer and space enthusiast 

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if you ever feel like you're not "smart enough" for STEM or didn't do that great in school, i just wanna let you know that i failed algebra 2 THREE TIMES and dropped my high school physics class the FIRST WEEK...

and NASA chose me to student research with them.

so what i'm trying to say is that STEM is for EVERYONE. if school wasn't the easiest for you and you're not the strongest in math, don't let that stop you from pursuing STEM. working hard for goals makes you a great scientist.

screw that stereotype that all STEM majors are geniuses who were building robots and knew how to work a microscope at 3 years old.

STEM IS FOR EVERYONE! BECOME A FREAKING SCIENTIST! YOU CAN DO IT!

[spacexplorersam]

To add to this, I was told in high school I didn’t do well enough in algebra II to proceed to pre-calc so i gave up on math. Then in college (I got accepted as a physics major, funnily enough) I ended up taking pre-calc three times, and calc I two time. The second time, I got an A in calc I and then proceeded to calc II where I got an A and would have got an A in calc III if I hadn’t quit the class for some personal issues I was dealing with that semester.

that whole time I was a physics major and also dealing with other physics classes and labs that were just as hard and incorporated all of the calculus i was learning, which was tough but I did it. Physics I was hard and I’m pretty sure I got a C, but I got an A on my final exam in Physics II and finished the class with an A. Math and science were ALWAYS hard for me, but I refused to believe that STEM wasn’t for me. I wanted it so I worked for it and ended up succeeding. 

Math and science didn’t come naturally for me but I refused to accept that and I worked at it and eventually the hard work and multiple class attempts turned into knowledge and confidence. <3

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Physics moodboard

Ye imma make moodboards for all my classes

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me: *sees stars and points at them* yes

person: what?

me: *sounding more forceful* YES

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Photons are Dobby’s favorite, sir! — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2AhrF80

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8 Fast Facts You Must Know About Mercury’s Last Transit Until 2032

“7.) NASA’s Kepler discovered zero Mercury-like planets around Sun-like stars. Transiting Mercury imperceptibly dims the Sun, reducing its brightness by merely 0.0027%.”

From 12:35 to 18:04 Universal Time on November 11, 2019, Mercury will, from the perspective of Earth, appear to transit across the face of the Sun. Even though Mercury is only a little more than 3,000 miles in diameter, the fact that it passes between us and the Sun means that it will appear 1/194th as large. If you want to see the silhouette of Mercury against the brilliant backdrop of the Sun, you’ll need either a clever image projection setup or a telescope (with 50-100x magnification, ideally) with an appropriate solar filter.

But whether you view it for yourself or not, there’s an amazing set of science facts everyone can learn to appreciate this momentous event. Come get them today in a mere 200 words, tops!

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The ULA AtlasV rocket booster that will propel Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the Space Station next month. 🚀

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[spacexplorersam]

STORY OF MY LIFE

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Spiral Galaxies Spinning Super Fast via NASA https://ift.tt/2NT3raX

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Why are these galaxies spinning so fast? If you estimated each spiral’s mass by how much light it emits, their fast rotations should break them apart. The leading hypothesis as to why these galaxies don’t break apart is dark matter – mass so dark we can’t see it. But these galaxies are even out-spinning this break-up limit – they are the fastest rotating disk galaxies known. It is therefore further hypothesized that their dark matter halos are so massive – and their spins so fast – that it is harder for them to form stars than regular spirals. If so, then these galaxies may be among the most massive spirals possible. Further study of surprising super-spirals like these will continue, likely including observations taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope scheduled for launch in 2021.

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They’re sending a little oven, and pieces of cookie dough, to space to try out 0G cooking for the first time.

But the astronauts aren’t allowed to eat the freshly baked cookies, they have to mail them back to Earth for analysis.

Isn’t that just the cruellest thing?

[spacexplorersam]

just make two. one to send to earth and one to nom on. 

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Out of all the theories and fantasies created around blackholes, which of them, in your opinion, do you think could come closest to reality?

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#MEMES │ Quantum meme (via minesh245)

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July 20, 1969: People around the world tune their radios and television sets to watch humans step foot on the Moon for the first time.

Gather ‘round with us today and experience history as it unfolded 50 years ago.

Watch NASA TV at 4:02 p.m. EDT as we replay the original live broadcast of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. 

Then, at 10:38 p.m. EDT, watch the replay of the original live broadcast of the first steps on the Moon, as the world watched it in 1969: 

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com.

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