#cosmicconverse

Breaking up the re-blogs today to correct an egregious omission, because I hadn’t yet posted these photos of Dr. Rebecca Oppenheimer of @amnhnyc​ from over a year ago! She is wearing @blackmilkclothing​ leggings (and amazing boots, I think from Miz Mooz), and in the second photo I’m wearing @shadowplaynyc​ skirt/dress and, of course, Cosmic @converse​,

You see, not only do I owe my career in NYC to Rebecca, because she hired me as a postdoc when I finished grad school, but also essentially my entire research field, because she discovered the first confirmed brown dwarf (science paper), as featured in this post! We continue to collaborate on studies of gas giant extra-solar planets observed with the instruments she builds, and we even appeared on @startalkradio together!

Besides being an awesome scientist & mentor, Rebecca is an outspoken advocate for science funding and transgender rights, which makes we wonder if there is anything she can’t do...!

THIS IS NOT A DRILL! The Cosmic Converse are back! Previously only available at Journey’s, they are now sold by Famous Footwear! The color is called “Midnight Lake/Pink” but we all know it’s NGC 602 as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Stock up while you can, startorialists!

H/T Antonio

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!!! Cosmic Converse are on sale at Journeys, $40 and free US shipping! I may or may not* have bought more than one back-up pair.

NGC 602 4 life.

–Emily

Astronista Becky (you might remember her from here) has alerted us to the availability of Cosmic Converse in the UK & Europe! They're called trainers across the pond (now to update all my tags....).

So far these are the only sneakers I've found (besides handmade ones) that use a real astronomical image, so of course they're my favorite and I post them all the time!

Yesterday two of our twitter followers, ideaofhappiness & annmargar, got their shiny cosmic Converse in the mail! They both paired* them with dark rinse jeans, and ideaofhappiness even added stellar socks!

We love seeing the #AstroFashion you've found and how you rock it! Keep those submission coming here, on twitter, or via gmail!

Have I mentioned that the shows feature a real astronomical image of NGC 602 from the Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra space telescopes? Maybe once or twice? ;)

--Emily