Discovery Alert! 💃🏾 Six planets are locked in a rhythmic dance around their star that's so precise, you can set the orbits to music. The planets likely have been performing this dance since formation billions of years ago. go.nasa.gov/3RmSpwv

You’ve visited black holes and other distant places with our Traveler. But did you know you can take your own trip to Jupiter? Well, at least your name can! Find out how to #SendYourName aboard NASA’s @EuropaClipper mission when it launches next year: go.nasa.gov/3SDzy14

Improvise, adapt, overcome? Rocky planets may be able to form in harsher environments than we thought. Webb detected building blocks of planets, including water & carbon dioxide, in a rocky planet-forming zone being hit by extreme ultraviolet radiation: go.nasa.gov/412bTJW

A group of dead stars known as "spider pulsars" are obliterating nearby companion stars within their reach in Omega Centauri. Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is helping scientists understand how these pulsars prey on their stellar companions: s.si.edu/spiders

#TBT to December 2, 1990, when Astro-1 was launched on the space shuttle Columbia. It was a science platform that carried one X-ray and three UV telescopes. This pioneering mission gave us a nine-day glimpse of the high-energy universe. Read more: go.nasa.gov/3sYRJUx

NASA is working to resume science operations of the Hubble Space Telescope after it entered safe mode Nov. 23 due to an ongoing gyroscope issue. Hubble’s instruments are stable, and the telescope is in good health: science.nasa.gov/missions/hubbl…

Have you been sightseeing with our Traveler? Don’t forget to send a postcard! 📬 We’ve got you covered if your travels take you to the edge of a black hole. Tour the universe with the Traveler on NASA+: plus.nasa.gov/series/the-tra…

Thank you, Elizabeth, for sharing with us what you do! #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth twitter.com/NASAUniverse/s…

My advice for anyone interested in the field is to not give up. There are a lot of people who are happy to assist in the hard times and cheer you on in the good times. Do your best, ask a lot of questions, and persevere! /EAS

Some fun facts about myself are that I have my own little goat farm consisting of 12 goats that I love, I am a newlywed of 6 months, I know ASL, and I have two siblings; a twin sister named Allie and a brother named Brandon. /EAS

Things that I have worked on that I am proud of are the conferences and new hire highlights. Because of the things that I do, I get to influence and interact with people on an individual level and they make each person feel important and cared for. /EAS

My focus is to serve my community and country to the best of my ability. Since I’m involved with DEIA, outreach, and recruitment I want to make my division the most inclusive and welcoming place to be, so people will join the fun in our field ... and maybe join our team. /EAS

I studied physics in my undergraduate program at East Central University and astrophysics in my graduate studies at Towson University. I received my master’s degree in December 2019. /EAS

I also highlight new hires to help people get to know their new colleagues as well as manage a recruitment database. I keep busy with conferences this time of year but am always happy to travel and meet future hires. /EAS

My typical day looks fairly simple. I wake up, let my dogs outside, and start my day of work. I often chat with students and help them get answers to their questions or connect them with the right people. A fraction of my time also goes to asteroseismology research. /EAS

@NASAGoddard I work for the University of Maryland as a contracted scientist in the Astrophysics Science Division @NASAGoddard. My job duties consist of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Recruitment, and Outreach, and Asteroseismology research. /EAS

Hello! I am Elizabeth Apala-Smith. I am from Southeastern Oklahoma, where I currently reside while working remotely on @NASAGoddard projects and running my small goat farm. /EAS

The diversity of our NASA team is what brings different perspectives to our missions, and we celebrate and share their stories. To protect our people from personal attacks, we have decided to limit comments on these posts.

Join us today for a special takeover by Elizabeth Apala-Smith to celebrate #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth! Stay tuned while she introduces herself and talks about the inspiring work she does as a Senior Research Assistant in @NASAGoddard astrophysics.

Join NASA’s Night Sky Network on Thursday, Nov. 30, at 6:00 p.m. PT (9:00 p.m. ET) for a livestream presented by Dr. Travis Fischer about active galaxies with supermassive black holes at their centers. The event will also be recorded. Details: nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/news-display.c…

A group of astrophotographers has captured an enchanting, new ground-based view of Cassiopeia A. When combined with X-ray data from Chandra, we get a fresh perspective on the familiar supernova remnant and its place in space. More info: chandra.si.edu/blog/node/863

A galactic jumble! 🌀 Many galaxies shine in this #HubbleClassic image – including a blue arc above the red galaxy at center, caused by gravitational lensing. This occurs when light from a distant source is warped by the mass of an object in front of it: go.nasa.gov/47ULW12

#OTD in 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell captured the first detailed radio recording of a pulsar, revealing a train of pulses. Our NICER mission recently showed that these rapidly spinning cores of dead stars are even weirder than we thought! 🤯 More: tmblr.co/Zz_Uqj2mlOZ3j

Everything is not as it seems 🪄 See that string at the bottom of this image? It’s made up of 2 baby stars spewing out almost parallel jets of gas. Astronomers used to think there was just one star, but Webb’s high-resolution view shows more to the story: esawebb.org/images/potm231…

Of the hundreds of pulsars Fermi has studied, some stand out. Check out the Fermi team’s top 5 favorite pulsars in this thread: twitter.com/NASAUniverse/s…

Pulsars are the rapidly spinning collapsed cores of dead, massive stars. Of the 3,400 known pulsars, only about 10% pulse in gamma rays, which is the highest-energy form of light. Dig into this data with an interactive map of pulsars all over our galaxy! web.wwtassets.org/specials/2023/…

After 15 years of scanning the skies, our Fermi telescope has helped astronomers build a catalog of nearly 300 gamma-ray-emitting pulsars — 27 times the number known before the spacecraft launched in June 2008! science.nasa.gov/universe/stars…

Three scientific balloons are preparing to launch from Antarctica next month. Headlining this year's launches is GUSTO, a telescope that will map a portion of the Milky Way galaxy and Large Magellanic Cloud. GUSTO's launch window opens Dec. 12. go.nasa.gov/3QWo46o

How was your black hole vacation? We hope you had fun … and took as many pictures as our Traveler did! But the adventures are just beginning. Tour the universe with the Traveler every Saturday on NASA+: go.nasa.gov/3uGQxFJ

The salt on your table is made of sodium and chlorine. 🧂 Both of these elements were made by large stars that exploded before our solar system formed. #MondayMotivation