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Filmmaker, writer, producer. Creative acts repair the world.

Washington DC
Joined April 2011
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Michael Starobin retweeted
Voyager 1 distance check: Currently 15.79 billion miles from Earth. ✅ This time next year, Voyager 1 will be one light-DAY away – meaning it will take light a whole 24 hours to travel between Earth and the spacecraft. For comparison: Mars is usually ~12 light-MINUTES from Earth!
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Wave hi! 👋🏼 @NASA's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft will fly by Earth at 12:56 EDT today, coming about 100 times closer to Earth than the Moon's orbit. As it passes, the spacecraft will borrow a bit of Earth's gravity to adjust its speed and direction. go.nasa.gov/3VwR9bs
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Felt the #earthquake? Earthquakes in the eastern U.S. are felt over a MUCH bigger area than the West Coast. Why? Eastern U.S. has older rocks. They were subject to extreme pressures and temperatures. They’re denser and so shaking travels much farther. Example: – at Sagamore, MA
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Michael Starobin retweeted
Ground winds have postponed the launch of PACE 24 hours due to weather conditions. The new launch time is set for Feb. 8 at 1:33am ET (0633 UTC). go.nasa.gov/4860V87
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Michael Starobin retweeted
Check out the first images from the landing of the #OSIRISREx sample return capsule containing rock and dust from asteroid Bennu at the @DeptofDefense's Utah Test and Training Range. More 📷 ➡️ flic.kr/s/aHBqjAVWDj
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We are just under a month away from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivering a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth. Catch up on OSIRIS-REx’s daring journey #ToBennuAndBack and check out the step-by-step of what’s next: nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-…
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Michael Starobin retweeted
.@NASAWebb released a new image of the Wolf-Rayet star during @NASA's Keynote at #SXSW that was out of this world.💫🔭 #NASA
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Michael Starobin retweeted
Special delivery is right! 🛰️
📬 Special Delivery! On Sept. 24, 2023, the #OSIRISREx spacecraft will deliver a capsule of precious asteroid material to Earth and @USPS just announced there will be a stamp to mark the occasion! nasa.gov/osirisrex #ToBennuAndBack
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Michael Starobin retweeted
The asteroid-vanquisher flew And hit as we aimed it to do, A thrilling appliance Of intricate science And vengeance for dinosaurs too
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Michael Starobin retweeted
So…you’ve heard that the Webb telescope will be orbiting Lagrange point 2. But what even is that, anyway? And how do you orbit something that isn’t an object? We’ve got you! Here’s a thread ⬇️ #UnfoldTheUniverse
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Michael Starobin retweeted
🏠 Home, home on Lagrange! We successfully completed our burn to start #NASAWebb on its orbit of the 2nd Lagrange point (L2), about a million miles (1.5 million km) from Earth. It will orbit the Sun, in line with Earth, as it orbits L2. blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/… #UnfoldTheUniverse
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Michael Starobin retweeted
#NASAWebb is fully deployed! 🎉 With the successful deployment & latching of our last mirror wing, that's: 50 major deployments, complete. 178 pins, released. 20+ years of work, realized. Next to #UnfoldTheUniverse: traveling out to our orbital destination of Lagrange point 2!
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“We’re all along for the ride. Every human who ever wondered at the majesty of the universe. Every person who feels grateful that from dust and gravity and unseen matter everything good and beautiful and true in the world is somehow made.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Michael Starobin retweeted
Introducing dual anonymous peer review has changed who is winning observation proposals in @NASAUniverse. This is one of several initiatives NASA Science is utilizing to level the playing field among proposers. Read more in this @Nature article. nature.com/articles/d41586-0… – at North Snyderville Basin, UT
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Grand Canyon, meet the world’s largest space telescope. Launching later this year, @NASAWebb will capture 13.5 billion years of cosmic history! Download @NASA’s new app to bring the Webb telescope with you on your next adventure: apps.apple.com/us/app/the-jw… #FindYourPark NPS Photo
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Delicate Arch, or a portal to another world? Ranger Paul poses with the world’s most powerful space telescope, @NASAWebb - launching later this year! Use @NASA’s new app to bring the Webb telescope anywhere you go: apps.apple.com/us/app/the-jw…
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“Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.” #RobertBresson 25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999
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Michael Starobin retweeted
Classic.
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Michael Starobin retweeted
Schrödinger's Plates: They are both broken and not broken until you open the door.
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Michael Starobin retweeted
Dear Science Deniers, (Anti-vaxers, anti-maskers, climate hoaxers, flat-Earthers, etc) You found one another & communicate via stupefyingly advanced technologies that pivot on the discoveries of scientists. Just thought I’d remind you of that fact. Sincerely, Your Smart Phone
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