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Happy birthday, Carl Sagan!
Today marks 83 orbits of our pale blue dot since the birth of Carl Sagan, inspiration to so many of us, and from what we can tell just a lovely person.
Celebrate the “carldays” everyday with a holiday-sweater t-shirt design by @pacalin, one of my favorites.
Check out all of our Carl Sagan posts.
--Emily
Scientists are an ingenious bunch, y’all. In addition to commissioning or making custom dresses (we haven’t even posted all of the ones we know about!), they have cleverly come up with ways to have their science on display around their homes!
Lake Art creates etched relief maps of land and water as wooden framed art, serving trays, clocks, notebooks, photo albums, and cribbage boards as well as faux leather notepad covers.
Luckily JPL Science System Engineer Dr. Jo Pitesky found Lake Art and decided to test whether they could make something from a non-terrestrial lake. The results are nothing short of out of this world!
Jo got a serving tray, and her JPL colleague Trina Ray got a wall clock. The data came from NASA’s Cassini Mission RADAR, which used microwave imaging to map methane lakes on Titan’s surface.
You can create your own Ligeia Mare products using the Lake Art contact form with this info:
Lake Name: Ligeia Mare
County: Titan
State: Saturn
Next up: adding more Titan lakes! What will clever scientists think of next?!
--Emily
Yesterday Summer posted these aspirational kids’ shirts, and for today’s #TBT I want to make it clear we support everyone who wants to be an astrophysicist and dress like a princess, too! So here are some of my favorite gowns from the archives (check out even more with the dress tag):
Hubble image gowns by designer Jirina Tauchmanová
Dr. May Britt Moser’s gown for the Nobel Prize ceremony
A Valentino, of course!
And last but not least, the moon gown I still kind of wish I had bought and worn every day since.
--Emily
I wasn’t the only one marching for science last weekend! @nasa astrophysicist Dr. Aki Roberge (and her mom, a chemist!) were part of this article about scientists participating in the Women’s March in DC by Hilary Brueck.
Science isn’t just a collection of facts, but science is real and facts matter.
--Emily
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