Astronomer in progress

17 years old

An astronomer in progress since the age of seven

I'm basically a talking monkey on an organic spaceship flying through the universe at the speed of around 29 km/s. Ooh ooh ah ah.

If you want to kill me, you should do that by throwing me into a supermassive black hole. The tidal force wouldn’t kill me instantly.

Hey Peter

Currently reading: The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan

"When I was growing up it was really cool to be a scientist or engineer. We need to make science cool again." -Sally Ride

Ten Best Pictures From NASA’s Cassini Probe

Fifteen years ago this week, a Titan rocket launched the bus-size spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida. In July 2004 Cassini finally entered Saturn orbit. Since then the probe has beamed back a steady stream of some 300,000 pictures and nearly 450 gigabytes of data about the ringed giant and its dozens of enigmatic moons.

Images courtesy: SSI/NASA