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Jason Davis
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I live in Tucson AZ, work in communications for NOIRLab, try to be funny at Tucson Improv Movement, and have two cats, one wife, and one daughter.
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Easily my best Rocket League trash goal
May 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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New DECam image of dark nebula Circinus West
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April 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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So it turns out I've been calling this asteroid "Donald Johnson" and apparently it's "Donald Johanson"
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April 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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lol
April 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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NOIRLab image of the week: All (Star) Trails Lead to Rubin
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A long exposure image of Rubin Observatory in which the star trails produce a rainbow of colors
April 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Moon over Maunakea
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The Gemini North observatory under moonlight, shining an adaptive optics laser into the sky
April 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Gemini South observed the spicy near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 and got a handle on its shape
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A tiny dot amidst streaks of stars, captured by long-exposure images An grey asteroid shaped like a lumpy hockey puck
April 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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The views from the astronaut polar mission remind me of this shot from Galileo during a 1990 fyby

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Earth's south pole covered in ice
April 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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March 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I love how in this JWST image you can see the galaxy in the upper-left *through* the foreground gas and dust.

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An orange pillar of gas and dust against a field of stars and galaxies, including one foreground galaxy that can be seen through the pillar.
March 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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🌎🌙🔴
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A telescopic view of the Moon's limb, with a tiny Mars peeking out.
March 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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🚨JUST RELEASED🚨

The largest 3D map of our Universe to date. A dense cosmic web of galaxies and galaxy clusters.

Earth is at the center. The more blue, the more distant the objects. Congrats to the DESI team! More goodies and a zoomable image: noirlab.edu/public/news/...
March 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Babe wake up new DECam image just dropped
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A spiral galaxy with grey-blue bands and red star-forming regions, on the backdrop of a crowded field of galaxies and stars.
December 6, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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I've never seen anything like this: A Hubble image right down the cone of a relativistic jet coming from a supermassive black hole at the center of another galaxy. It's offset just 9 degrees from Earth.

From www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Black and white image of concentric blurry circles decreasing in size to a single bright point source.
December 3, 2024 at 7:01 PM