Elizabeth Howell, PhD (she/her,  )Verified account

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etc. History student . 4 books. Equity, diversity, inclusion matter.

Ottawa, Canada
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    Feb 20

    For everyone affected by recent events in Ottawa.

    Turn off Twitter if you need to, and please take the time to check in on others who may be struggling more than you realize. If you need support, there are resources available: (2/2)
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  2. 6 hours ago

    Elon Musk founded SpaceX on March 14, 2002, with big dreams of creating reusable rockets, commercial spacecraft and other advanced technology. (my story in )

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  3. 6 hours ago

    The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is gearing up for its 2022 campaign, which includes seven days of remote observations. The telescope network will focus on dramatic objects around the universe. (my story in )

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  4. 9 hours ago

    SpaceX celebrated its 20th anniversary Monday (March 14) with a short video showcasing Starman, Starship and company innovations in orbit and beyond. (my story in )

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  5. 9 hours ago

    An Earthbound experiment is replicating the extreme heat found in galaxy clusters located in deep space using nearly 200 lasers. (my story in )

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  6. 13 hours ago

    NASA's top-notch Red Planet geology rover is moving on to explore an ancient river delta now that its eighth rock sample is secured for future analysis. (my story in )

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  7. Mar 15

    New satellite views from space show the Russian military moving towards Kyiv, Ukraine on Friday (March 11), including images of a battalion firing upon the besieged capital. (my story in )

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  8. Mar 15

    The telescope is called the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), and seeks to understand more about the extreme conditions present in super-dense, city-sized neutron stars and their variants. (my story in )

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  9. Mar 15

    The outburst came from a very young star just starting its evolution, and the image shows a jet of gas traveling supersonically. The glow you see comes from the jet colliding with gas and dust around the star. (my story in )

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  10. Mar 15

    Nearly 50 years after Apollo 17 astronauts collected rocks from the lunar surface, NASA is finally tapping their samples as it prepares for new missions to the moon. (my story in )

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  11. Mar 15

    Vande Hei is scheduled to depart the ISS in a Soyuz on March 30 with two Russian cosmonauts, Anton Shkaplerov and Petr Dubrov, and land with them in Kazakhstan. (my story in )

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  12. Mar 14

    Combustion scientist Jenni Sidey-Gibbons will celebrate her fifth anniversary as an astronaut selectee this summer, while assisting with a key upgrade of the space station. (my story in )

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  13. Mar 14

    The gas giants of our solar system — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — together make up a group known as the Jovian planets. (my story in )

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  14. Mar 14

    Axiom Mission 1 is a mission to the International Space Station by the Houston-based Axiom Space that will be the first fully private crew to the orbiting complex. (my story in )

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  15. Mar 14

    The mission will loft a satellite for Space Forge, an in-space manufacturing startup based in Wales. The coming flight will be the first orbital mission ever to launch from the UK. (my story in )

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  16. Mar 13

    Just finished watching part of 's first episode in a decade! Great job! I became a fan during the 2020 lockdown, during which I marathoned their hundreds of episodes. :) I'm proud to support them as part of my new-(ish) UK archaeology passion.

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    WATCH A SPECIAL PATREON PREVIEW OF 'S FIRST NEW DIG, AVAILABLE FROM TONIGHT, SUNDAY 13TH MARCH AT 6PM (GMT) - Members can sign in or join and watch here:
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  17. Mar 11

    Astronomers used a gamma-ray observatory in Namibia called the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) to show how an eruption creates a shock wave that accelerates material around it super-fast speeds. (my story in )

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  18. Mar 11

    The moon will pass by the Seven Sisters and other famous parts of Taurus as it crosses through the constellation this week. (my story in )

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  19. Mar 11

    According to NASA, the James Webb Space Telescope will focus on four main areas: first light in the universe, assembly of galaxies in the early universe, birth of stars and protoplanetary systems, and planets. (my story in )

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  20. Mar 11

    Planetary debris, including some objects the size of moons, may hint at a rocky exoplanet within the habitable zone of a stellar zombie, a new study suggests. (my story in )

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  21. Mar 10

    The molecule, dimethyl, is a precursor to organic molecules like methane that in some cases may be indicative of life. The team also may have found methyl formate, which is deemed a "building block" to larger organic molecules. (my story in )

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