Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐

Fellow astronomers, please submit your name if you'd like to join the Astronomers for Planet Earth (@a4e.org) statement on the proposed megaconstellations 🔭

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Two satellite proposals threaten the night sky — the window to act is now 🔭

Deadline for public comments: March 6, 2026

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That is cool

Ithaca NY

Northern lights are dancing tonight 🔭

Gorgeous 🥰

Chasing the Northern Lights! 🔭

Peace ✌️

Aurora is only visible in camera here in upstate NY so far 🔭

🚨 Aurora Alert 🚨

Northern lights may be visible tonight 👀🤞

Happy stargazing!! ⭐

Drop pics if you see 👇

4 min stacked exposure with my Google Pixel Phone

Orion: The Hunter 🔭

We were pleased with a rare clear night here in Upstate NY 😊

Thanks Emily 🙏

🌕 Full Moon Guide for 2026 🌕

March and August are going to be fun 😊

Happy Stargazing out there! 🔭

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Start of my year 🫠

- 0/8 private foundation grants accepted 😭
- 2 months of grant money left (I can receive a few months of emergency funding) 😱
- 12+ faculty/scientist jobs applied to 🤞

I'm now half-time at Cornell to get me to the summer 😕😭

I'm now officially looking for jobs outside academia 👀

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Happy New Year!

Earthrise

This photograph was taken on Dec. 24, 1968 by astronaut Bill Anders as the Apollo 8 crew orbited the Moon

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Tonight will be a great evening for trying to see the Aurora for folks in the Northern/Central US 🌌🔭🧪

Happy Stargazing! 😊

Predicated to be cloudy and snowy here in upstate NY 😭❄️

Awesome!

I have a new band name 🤣

Same 😭

Yep 😊

Nice shoot! 🥰

Tonight we will have another great chance for seeing auroras 🔭🧪

Go look up and enjoy the marvels of the universe ☺️🌌

Aurora Science 🔭🧪

What do the colors of the aurora tell you 👇

LOOK WHATS HAPPENING FLYING OUT OF DENVER RIGHT NOW!!!!!! 🔭🧪

Nice 🙂