Stephanie Deppe, PhD

@spacescisteph.bsky.social

2039 Followers 243 Following

Content Strategist at Vera. C. Rubin Observatory and lover of icy asteroids in the outer Solar System. ADHD brain in a neurotypical world. Sci-fi/fantasy nerd. Probably hiking a mountain somewhere. she/her

A teeny tiny me in front of Rubin's spectacularly pink and tan image of the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae

A large face-on galaxy in a cosmic tapestry of glittering galaxy jewels. The galaxy nearly looks like a ring surrounding a bright core. A few bright stars pepper the scene, and the background is filled with the smudges of distant galaxies of various colors against the black of space.

A panorama of my townhouse complex parking lot with vivid orange sunset clouds spanning left to right

The moon sits against an inky black sky as a waning gibbous. Jupiter is just visible as a tiny pinprick to the lower right

Shown face-on from our vantage point on Earth, the galaxy's sparkling arms spiral out from a bright white core. The core appears vibrant and alive, and crackles with lightening-like, pale blue light. Glowing, high-energy stars in purple, white, and orange, dot the lengths of the spiraling arms. Webs of murky dust crisscross the space between the curving silver blue arms, also known as dust lanes.

a scrunched-up inchworm sits sideways among a bunch of green leaves.