Hannah S. Ostroff
@hannahostroff
Writer, editor, social media manager. Always ready to share photos of my dog. she/her
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20-05-2013 21:59:21
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That’s home. That’s us. 🌎 This image dubbed the “pale blue dot” was taken by NASA Voyager today in 1990. As the spacecraft sped toward interstellar space, it captured Earth from 3.7 billion miles (6 billion km) away. Find out 10 fast facts: go.nasa.gov/3E7eW9m
Soaked up some horticulture this morning with Smithsonian Gardens. 🌸 These saucer magnolias in the Haupt Garden are about 45 years old!
Belva Ann Lockwood drafted legislation for equal pay for work by women in government. It became law in 1872. 💪 #EqualPayDay She ran for president twice in the 1880s, and was the first woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court. 📸: c. 1880 by Benjamin Falk, National Portrait Gallery USA
Just feel like more people should see these absurd seed catalogs from the late 1800s in Smithsonian Libraries and Archives' collection: s.si.edu/3KwXEGf
Shine bright like a ULIRG 💎 With the light of a trillion suns, an ultra-luminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) shines in the latest NASA Webb Telescope image. Located 250 million light-years away, this target is actually the result of two colliding spiral galaxies: go.nasa.gov/3L7dojN
Life update for anyone still on this website: I work here now! Thrilled to be working in communications (but not social!) at the Library of Congress.
