I don’t know who needs to hear this but rest is not a reward. You don’t have to earn rest. You need rest. You deserve rest. You are worthy of rest simply because you are a living being. And don’t ever feel guilty for taking time to rest.

So, that sun-rise on Mars picture I tweeted a while ago? Turns out the ops team took a bunch of pictures and made gifs of both sunrise and sunset! Check these out!

To every independent bookstore, I want to express my gratitude first and foremost as a reader, as a lover and collector of books. Many thanks for curating your treasure chests of books for us readers. 🙏🏾#IndependentBookstoreDay.

These are elementary school children who woke up this morning. Who ate their favorite cereal. Who tied their shoes in double knots. Who laughed with friends on the bus. Now more than a dozen are dead. This isn’t normal. It doesn’t have to be this way. It can’t keep being this way

Spacecraft AND space crafts! After 4 months and many volunteer hours, JPL #quiltonauts presented @LaurieofMars with a "Welcome Quilt" yesterday. Contributors donated their time and talent to create 144 individual quilt squares for the project. #welcomequilt #quiltjoy

One step closer to investigating the icy world Europa. ❄️ The main body of NASA’s ARCHIVED - NASA Europa Clipper spacecraft has been delivered to JPL from Johns Hopkins APL. It is undergoing final assembly and testing ahead of its planned 2024 launch to Jupiter’s icy moon. go.nasa.gov/3mpkIdm

👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: nasa.gov/webbfirstimage…

For the first time in NASA’s history a woman is taking charge of its historic Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In an exclusive interview, Erin McLaughlin sat down with Laurie Leshin (@LaurieofMars), the pioneering woman helping lead NASA into the future.

Hear firsthand about the toll of high ebook prices on local libraries in this NPR piece: npr.org/2022/08/18/111… #EmpoweringLibraries

This is the view I’ve been waiting for. Amazing!!

New images of my favorite moon, Europa, from the NASA's Juno Mission mission today! missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/proces… Look at the topography you can see near the terminator, at the left side (day/night boundary). The dark circle at bottom right looks like Callanish, a big multi-ring impact crater!

It’s my FAVORITE time of year 🤣 x.com/TheFigen_/stat…

This just in: The #DARTmission impact is confirmed to have changed the orbit of moonlet Dimorphos around its asteroid Didymos. For the first time ever, humans changed the motion of a celestial object. More details: go.nasa.gov/3g2C5kp

This is what you’ve waited for. Journey with us through Webb’s breathtaking view of the Pillars of Creation, where scores of newly formed stars glisten like dewdrops among floating, translucent columns of gas and dust: go.nasa.gov/3EPPiXW Here’s your guided tour ⬇️

I want a book theme park. I want the shire and Westeros and Willie Wonka’s chocolate factory and I wanna choose my own adventure. I wanna fall down a rabbit hole and stay at The Overlook with a wardrobe to Narnia in my room and the Beast’s library downstairs. That’s what I want.

IT IS 2023 AND I AM ADMITTING THAT I HAVE NO INTENTION OF READING EVERY BOOK I BUY. I LIKE COLLECTING THEM. I LIKE HAVING LOTS OF THEM AROUND. I LIKE BEING SURROUNDED BY STORIES AND POSSIBILITIES. I WANT A LIBRARY. I AM NOT A BOOK MINIMALIST LEAVE ME ALONE (WITH MY BOOKS).

The women of JPL gathered for a historic photo for #InternationalWomensDay. JPLers joined the group photo starting with the longest-serving woman on Lab, Susan Finley, who has contributed more than 60 years, to new hires starting this week. 🥳 #IWD2023 #WHM #NASAJPL #LifeatJPL

Launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket with NASA's Psyche mission! #NASA #SpaceX #Psyche #MissiontoPsyche

8PM EDT: This is nothing short of astronomical. I am at a loss for words to meteorologically describe you the storms small eye and intensity. 897mb pressure with 180 MPH max sustained winds and gusts 200+ MPH. This is now the 4th strongest hurricane ever recorded by pressure on