Gary B

Watch the Orion constellation spin in three dimensions, as the familiar pattern in the the night sky distorts into a whole new perspective. Credit: Christian Nieves, Frank Summers and Ralf Crawford (STScI). 🔭

Two images, one taken near perihelion, and again near aphelion showing the difference in apparent size (about 3% difference between them). A fixed optical system (Seestar 50) means the image scale is constant.

Document Forgery xkcd.com/3160/

⏰ Start your countdown clock for the exact moment of the autumn #equinox, 19:19 (UK) 22nd Sept, when the Northern hemisphere and Southern hemisphere are equally illuminated. Today the day length in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland is ~the same as in 🇳🇿New Zealand 🤓🧪🔭 📷: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

“A peaceful place, or so it looks from space…” New image of the home world and our companion moon, captured last month from 180 million miles out by our Psyche spacecraft on its way toward the first rendezvous with a metallic asteroid in 2029. 🧪 www.nasa.gov/missions/psy...

Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.

Happy New Year 2025 everyone! #NewYear #HappyNewYear #2025 #NYE

Merry Christmas, everyone!