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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · 1d

A little bit of the "green flash" captured during Sunday night's sunset

Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · 16d

The Moon and Earth together captured with a camera aboard the ESA European Service Module during NASA's Artemis I mission on November 28, 2022. The spacecraft was about 42,000 miles beyond the Moon when this picture was taken.🌖🌍

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · 20d

The Sun eclipsed by the Moon—a photo captured in the midst of the brief period of totality during the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse.

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · 24d

Cassini's final full view of Saturn 🪐 a mosaic comprising 11 color-composites captured by the spacecraft in visible light filters on September 13, 2017. The following day it dove into Saturn's atmosphere, ending its mission after 13 years in orbit.

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Sep 6

Io in front of Jupiter. This is a color-composite made from images captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in red, green, and violet wavelengths on September 6, 1996. Io is the most volcanically-active world in our solar system.

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Sep 2

Tonight’s waxing gibbous Moon 🌔

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Jun 22

Fair enough. Look baby turkeys (yesterday) !!

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the clay @theclay.xyz · Apr 30

and this is just level 1 of The Total Perspective Vortex

Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Apr 29

If we equate Earth with the scale size of a basketball, the Moon would be about the size of a tennis ball, 24 feet (7.3 m) away. 🌎🌖

The Sun would be a sphere 86 feet (26 m) wide—about the height of an 8-story building—1.8 miles (2.9 km) away. 🌞

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Apr 30

Proxima Centauri is pretty small, only about twice the size of Jupiter. We can’t see it with the naked eye.

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Apr 30

So much in that movie is a slow burn and endlessly rewatchable. 👍

I know it’s an oldie but I’m a fan of so many short lines from the original Ghostbusters. Classic irreverent comedy.

“I’ve worked in the private sector. They expect results.”

“I’ve quit better jobs than this!”

“Please come down.”

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Apr 29

The next-closest star would be a sphere about 12 feet (3.6 m) wide...49.3 million miles (79.3 million km) away. ⭐️

Space is big.

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Apr 29

If we equate Earth with the scale size of a basketball, the Moon would be about the size of a tennis ball, 24 feet (7.3 m) away. 🌎🌖

The Sun would be a sphere 86 feet (26 m) wide—about the height of an 8-story building—1.8 miles (2.9 km) away. 🌞

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Apr 17

Do humans count?

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Apr 17

It's mind-bogglingly big.

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Apr 16

The 1909 pennies were wheaties yeah

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Apr 16

This is a closeup of the 1909 Lincoln penny that's been on Mars as part of Curiosity's MAHLI calibration target for almost 13 years

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Apr 15

They wanted us to become friends with monsters

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Apr 15

I think Mythbusters did it once. It works.

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Apr 14

You could at least point and say “that could happen!”

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Apr 14

Sometimes it can't (perigee) but sometimes it can (apogee)

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Apr 14

Fun fact: all of the other planets in the Solar System—and Pluto too—lined up edge-to-edge (not including any rings) could fit between Earth and the Moon

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Apr 4

No scope. A 600mm telephoto lens.

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Apr 2

The crescent Moon with earthshine next to the Pleiades tonight 🌒✨

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Mar 21

Saturn's moon Mimas with the 139 km wide Herschel crater positioned dead-center along the terminator, imaged by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on March 20, 2006

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · Mar 13

Blue Ghost's landing on the Moon in Mare Crisium captured by NASA's SCALPSS (Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies) cameras

Source: www.nasa.gov/general/nasa...

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