Liz Landau

Liz Landau


By day @NASA & freelance @NYTimes @WIRED @UndarkMag @NatGeo @SmithsonianMag. Former @CNN reporter. Alumna @Princeton & @Columbia. Views mine. https://t.co/cdsgFOADRk

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And to think, right now it IS flying to the Moon! #Artemis  Pic from Dec. 9, 2021

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Trying out Mastodon simultaneously although still in an exploratory phase... you can find me there at li @masthead .social

Before we fall into a Thanksgiving black hole, check out the latest news about black holes from @NASA’s IXPE mission! (IXPE the Interstellar Ibex art by L. James)

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Not sure who's still out there but please enjoy these #aurora  #northernlights  photos from Iceland

Where are the other theater kids who saw it was December 24, 9pm, Eastern Standard Time, and started singing the beginning of RENT?

Can’t remember when I had my last Wordle in 2! Now please resume your regularly scheduled programming. Wordle 565 2/6 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Better luck next time #Eagles  ☹️

Hey #SXSW ! I’m speaking at the event at 10am Monday called Ignite Talks: Music & Tech. What does NASA have to do with this? Come find out! See this session in the program at

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Happy #PiDay  everyone! Any see any pies here at #SXSW ?

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Happy #PiDay  everyone! Are there any pies or pis here at #SXSW ?

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Honored to work with these amazing @NASAWebb  scientists who were in today’s show and are helping us #UnfoldTheUniverse  with #JWST 

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THERE ARE MORE ANTS ON EARTH THAN STARS IN THE MILKY WAY. Now THAT is some breaking news. And it's not even close: there 50,000 ants PER STAR IN THE GALAXY (assuming a "high end" estimate of 400 billion stars). h/t @washingtonpost 

One of the most visually interesting stories I've done: When you put gemstones under a microscope, you can find entire landscapes and worlds of color and wonder. Via @motherboard :

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HUBBLE'S STILL UP THERE AND IT'S STILL TAKING GREAT PICS TOO AND I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN SUPER PUMPED ABOUT JWST BUT HUBBLE IS STILL GREAT AND DID YOU KNOW THAT THEY CAN WORK TOGETHER LIKE SCIENCE BUDDIES LOOKING AT EXOPLANETS AND GALAXIES AND STARS AND STUFF? SPAAAAAACE!

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I’ve been a fan of @Rose_D_Luna  on Twitter for years and was so excited when I ran into her at @NASAGoddard  during her internship. It was an honor to write about her and her perseverance for the @NASA  website:

Centuries before there were astronauts on the #Moon , there was a dude in Poland in the 17th century making the first lunar atlas. My latest for

Proving that @NASA  t-shirts are everywhere, this was at a market in Dobbiaco, Italy -- the small town from which I caught the bus to the Tre Cime di Lavaredo. Population ~3,000

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From modeling for Richard Feynman as a Ph.D. student, to writing 900+ papers, to summarizing astronomy's annual accomplishments for 16 years, Virginia Trimble has had an extraordinary career. Check out my profile of her here:

The room where the #TRAPPIST1  announcement happens - ask a question at #asknasa 

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