Jason Major
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Space exploration aficionado and NASA image processor. @ https://t.co/HotPjLJOi8
Rhode Island, USA
Joined January 2010
Here's a little (i.e. giant) cosmic fireworks display I helped process for the Chandra X-ray Observatory team! š Check out this and 8 other images released today at
What you're seeing is a 98-light-year-wide chunk of star factory. This new image of N79, a giant region of star formation located about 160,000 light-years from Earth, combines observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and @NASAWebb .āØ
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Spikes of icy ring material, created by gravitational oscillations, rise up to a mile high along the outer edge of Saturn's B ring and cast long shadows in the perpendicular light of spring equinox. Image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on July 26, 2009
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Turns out Betelgeuse does indeed have a closely orbiting companion star! (I was really hoping they'd name it Lydia.).
Our first image of Betelgeuse's companion star revealed ā . This is NASA's discovery of a close-orbiting star to Betelgeuse, the 10th brightest star in our night sky. A @nasaames scientist confirmed the century-old hypothesis by using one of the largest ground-based telescopes
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RT @JPMajor: A view of Saturn made from image data captured #OTD by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft on July 24, 1981. (Yes, 1981) https://t.co/ā¦.
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Today marks the 26th anniversary of the launch of @NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory! Deployed from the payload bay of space shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999 during STS-93, @chandraxray observes the universe in high-energy x-rays from its 65,000 mile-high (105,000 km) orbit.
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RT @Caltech: The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitatioā¦.
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Gravitational waves from massive black holes challenge current astrophysical models
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RT @AstroPeggy: I snapped this photo on the @Space_Station just a few days ago. TheĀ solarĀ arrays are not only beautiful, but an incredibleā¦.
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A reminder that while the live video feed of the Apollo 11 moonwalk that most people watched on TV 56 years ago was admittedly rather fuzzy and dark, the unconverted signal was actually pretty good (but was only seen inside the Honeysuckle and Goldstone receiving stations.).
These are the scanned 35mm photos that were taken of the slow scan monitor, realigned so they all more or less match up (and showing original orientation as they were seen!) You can see the reflections in the glass of the room lights as well as the camera taking the shots.
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RT @AndySaunders_1: Today in 1969. Neil Armstrong took this - the first ever photograph on the surface of another world. Remastered here frā¦.
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RT @PettitFrontier: View from the ISS of SpaceX Dragonās atmospheric entry, carrying the Axiom-4 crew home.
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Video of the Apollo 11 LMās descent to the surface of the Moon, captured 56 years ago today š.
16mm film camera footage showing the descent and landing of the Apollo 11 LM Eagle on July 20, 1969. You can see the boulder field that Neil Armstrong had to avoid by continuing further west, passing over Little West crater and touching down about 60 meters beyond.
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RT @NASAhistory: The Gemini X mission completed one of its primary goals #OTD in 1966 when it docked with the Agena target vehicle in spaceā¦.
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