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The dim and detailed jellyfish: A 112-hour collaboration from three continents

Mary W. Jackson was the first Black female engineer at NASA. Jackson started in the West Area Computing Unit at the Langley Research Center and was an advocate for women in STEM fields. NASA's Headquarters in DC are now named in her honor. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/scxsViOFb1

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M42 - Orion Nebula (2/26/22)

IC1848 the Soul Nebula from my Backyard

Advanced new GOES-T weather satellite is 'go' for launch on March 1, NASA says https://t.co/vsQpOI4fI9 https://t.co/YIBVLRrEdS

My first full moon stacked shot. Nikon D5600 with a 70-300mm Kit lens

The dim and detailed jellyfish: A 112-hour collaboration from three continents

James Webb Space Telescope Update - Coarse alignment of primary mirror results in a nice stacked image of a single star. Only 4 more steps (out of 7) remain in the mirror commissioning phase. Wavelength-sized adjustments are next to get all light in phase.

Green and red flashing star?!

I wanted to go to bed when I looked out the window and saw a star that flashes green and red. It‘s moving very slowly across the sky so it‘s no airplane. It‘s February, I‘m in the northern hemisphere, germany, looking south. The star is quite bright and not that high above the horizon. Does anyone know what star I‘m looking at?

Odd green light.

I was camping last night, I looked up at the sky and saw this small green light stationary in the sky. I asked the others with me and they said it might be Jupiter. I looked up "does Jupiter give off green light?" and "is Jupiter's light green?" It came back with Jupiter's light is green. I went to post in here and the rules said look at the flow chart but google then says that there are no green stars. The light was not moving so it isn't a satellite (according to the flowchart) so I have no idea what it is. South England near Guildford. It was pretty low in the sky (just above the tree tops). Please help me. There was another brighter light with white under moving quite slowly but I think that one was a satellite.

Peter Beck, founder and CEO of Rocket Lab, recently spoke with us about the company’s new launch pad in New Zealand, set to debut with a satellite launch as soon as Monday. Watch the interview: https://t.co/pk0ugq2sdx

Binary star system

Do two stars in a binary system have same momentum?

Sirius blazes high in the south by about 8 p.m. now. Using binoculars or a scope at low power, examine the spot 4° directly south of Sirius. Can you see a little patch of gray haze, faintly speckled if your sky is dark? That's the open star cluster M41. https://t.co/Ku35X8091g https://t.co/jlZrQ86e4o

80 years ago today, the US Navy’s first aircraft carrier, the USS Langley, was bombed by Japanese naval land attack planes. It was so damaged by the attack that, after evacuating the crew and passengers, it was sunk by U.S. destroyers. (📷: National Museum of the U.S. Navy) https://t.co/WhB4rrOifm